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• First college production at new theater— ‘Softcops’ is timely, provocative

  By Megan BachmanDecember 18, 2014

  

  The purpose of theater being to hold “the mirror up to nature,” in Hamlet’s dictum, the choice for the first faculty-directed play in Antioch College’s renovated Foundry Theater is fitting.

• Group demands justice for Crawford

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  At 4:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon, just as most workers were heading home for the day, a group of about 100 people, mostly from Yellow Springs, were just arriving for an evening protest at the Xenia courthouse.

• Wanda Rebecca Johnson

  By YS News Staff

  

  Wanda Rebecca Johnson passed away on Dec. 5, at the Springfield Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio. She was 84. Wanda was born in 1931, the daughter of Earl and Gladys Glass of Xenia, Ohio, the third of seven children. After completing school in Xenia, she went to work as a legal secretary in the law […]

• Local docs expand to Dayton Street

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Community Physicians of Yellow Springs will move across town and double in size next year.
  The local primary care practice is relocating to 888 Dayton St., the former Creative Memories building, where it hopes to expand its services as a rural health clinic.

• Arlene Motter

  By YS News Staff

  

  Arlene Motter passed away on Dec. 6 after a courageous three year battle with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Arlene was born on Jan. 19, 1935, in Boston, Mass., to Vincent and Catherine (King) DeBonis. After graduating from Winthrop High School, Arlene worked as a telephone operator. She met Joe Motter while he was stationed at Fort Banks […]

• Re-setting the stage

  By YS News Staff

  

  Girl Scout Troop 30003 was recently seen cleaning up and repairing the amphitheater in the woods behind the John Bryan Community Pottery Studio.

• Brookey leaves the college

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Tom Brookey has served Antioch College since before it became operational in its most recent reincarnation. Brookey was the college’s business, operations, finance, information and HR director before those positions were officially created.

• Art surrounds trash on Xenia

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 15, 2014

  

  Okay, so it may take a while for villagers to give the large round cans that line downtown streets the respect they deserve. But in fact, several of the lowly Xenia Avenue receptacles that catch our trash are now original works of art, and they’ll be joined by more artwork soon.

• Mingle with Kringle

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  About 30 children, including Sophia and Sam Burns, above, turned out last Saturday for visits with Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves at the Glen Helen Building, part of the day-long Holiday Fest. Along with Santa, a popular attraction was the free carriage rides provided by draft horses Luke and Leia of Horse-N-Around Farm in […]

• Local teacher expands yoga space

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 11, 2014

  

  Local resident Jen Ater has always been drawn to wellness — be it of the environment or the body. Starting out in the environmental studies field 15 years ago, she later moved into massage, then yoga, then counseling before opening her own center, Inner Light Yoga & Wellness, last year in Beavercreek.