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• Friendly fishing

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 7, 2014

  

  Last Wednesday, July 28, Yellow Springs youth Sam Foster cast his line in the pond behind the Huber Heights Fraternal Order of Police and reeled in a tiny bluegill.

• David Case

  By YS News Staff

  

  David Case died on Sunday, Aug. 3. A full obituary will appear in a future issue of the News.

• T-ball’s sweet, goofy monster

  By Jimmy Chesire

  

  Sophia Purdin, 3, has a flower tattoo painted on her face. She walks right up to me, her eyes shining, lifting her hands so they are as high as her ears.

• New business offers Body Wisdom

  By Jenn Wheeler

  

  When Julie Pies and Patti Mielziner returned to Ohio to be closer to their immediate family, they hoped that their newly opened bodywork practice in Yellow Springs, Body Wisdom, would help them to create some new family as well. Through their work together over time with their clients and patients, Julie said, they come to be like family.

• Yellow Springs village revenues higher than expected

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  A mid-year budget review at Village Council’s July 21 meeting offered good news regarding Village general fund revenues.

• Debbie Cushman

  By YS News Staff

  

  Deborah (Debbie) Louise Cushman, of Springfield, left this earth in the presence of loved ones on Saturday, Aug. 2. She was 63. Debbie was born June 11, 1951, in Fort Meade, Md., and grew up in Coshocton, Ohio. She graduated from Coshocton High School in 1969 and went on to attend Ohio University in Athens, […]

• A birthday wish for the manatees

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Mackenzie Horton was ecstatic when she turned 9 years old in May and didn’t receive any birthday presents.

  Instead Mackenzie received exactly what she wanted for her birthday — to help save an animal she loves, the Florida manatee.

• Yellow Springs is SWAT member

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 6, 2014

  

  In recent years, there has been increased awareness of the growing number of SWAT team raids in this country. Since the 1980s, police departments’ use of SWAT has risen about 1,500 percent, resulting in about 148 SWAT raids daily, according to University of Eastern Kentucky criminal justice professor Peter Kraska in a June 9 New York Times article.

• She led with her heart and her spirit

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 31, 2014

  

  Becky Teilhet was beloved by many in the Yellow Springs community, known by family and friends for her unusually kind and generous nature.

• Charles Murray Closz

  By YS News Staff

  

  Charles Murray Closz, formerly of Yellow Springs, died Saturday, July 26, at Shenango Presbyterian Senior Care in New Wilmington. He was 93.