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• Kindness and caring in Yellow Springs, 2014

  By YS News StaffJanuary 1, 2015

  

  For this holiday edition of the News, staffers asked readers to respond to the question, “What acts of kindness and caring have you witnessed in the village during 2014?” I am grateful for the kind acts of love and kindness shown to me from a very cool villager named Nick Cunningham. My family is sort […]

• Yellow Springs Police Chief candidate finalists respond

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The two finalists for Yellow Springs police chief met their last rounds of interviews last week, including a public interview with each candidate.

• Yellow Springs Police Officer Penrod disciplined for event

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Last week the Village disciplined Yellow Springs Police Sergeant Naomi Penrod for misconduct she displayed during a peace officer call in the village in November.

• Walmart protest draws Yellow Springs villagers

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Organizers of last Saturday’s protest against the police shooting of John Crawford expected people to show up, just not quite so many.

• John A. Eastman

  By YS News Staff

  

  John A. Eastman, 67, collapsed and died in his home on Sunday, Dec. 28.

• Kwanzaa marks African heritage in Yellow Springs

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Basim Blunt wanted to make sure that the Kwanzaa celebration that the African American Cross-Cultural Works has sponsored in the village for nearly 10 years continues.

• New director at Coretta Scott King Center— Focus on diversity, social justice

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 25, 2014

  

  Mila Cooper has spent the past 25 years serving as diversity and community outreach director at over half a dozen colleges and universities around the country, but never has she felt responsible for as much as she does as the director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College.

• Schools discuss longer levies

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  One of the school district’s operating levies will expire this year, and the school board considered several options for renewing the levy, at the current tax rate, at their meeting Dec. 11.

• Laurie Inslee

  By YS News Staff

  

  Laurie Inslee, age 64, passed away last week unexpectedly in his residence.

• Friends Music Camp fundraiser— Making music for a unique camp

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Last year’s winter benefit concert for Friends Music Camp drew such a large audience, the Senior Center’s Great Room was bursting at the seams with people sitting on the floor in the front and standing several deep against the back and side walls.