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• MLS kids learn to practice peace

  By Megan BachmanMarch 26, 2015

  

  What began as an anti-bullying campaign at Mills Lawn Elementary School has evolved into a school-wide focus on empathy, inclusion and conflict resolution, Project Peace.

• A new energy at Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The process of bringing the the Children’s Center from the brink of insolvency has not been without its challenges. But the affordable, all-day early childhood education that the school has long offered is too vital to the community to abandon.

• Yellow Springs schools eye hiring fundraiser

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Yellow Springs schools are considering increasing expenditures next year for a new full-time employee to help raise private funds for the district.

• John W. Gray

  By YS News Staff

  

  John W. Gray, of Yellow Springs, passed away on Thursday, March 19 at Kettering Hospital. He was 70.

• Village Council — Yellow Springs backs marriage equality

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  At their March 16 meeting, Village Council members unanimously passed a resolution supporting marriage equality, making the Village the third municipality in Ohio to endorse same-sex marriage.

• Richard Weston Fowler

  By YS News Staff

  

  Richard Weston Fowler

• Need for drug task force in village eyed

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 19, 2015

  

  Ten years after first signing on with A.C.E. drug task force, Yellow Springs remains an active partner. However, the involvement of local police in the drug task force has become a topic of controversy.

• Village Council — Sidewalk solution is elusive

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  At its March 2 meeting, Village Council heard a presentation from Superintendent of Streets and Parks Jason Hamby on how best to address the current problem of subpar sidewalks. According to Hamby, the best path is to replace all Village sidewalks with new ones. “Only fixng the “troubled areas” is installing a Band-Aid on an […]

• Riders welcome on the public bus

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Village resident Gene Lohman loves the “flex” bus — Greene County’s public transit system. When he wants to get anywhere — from downtown to Xenia or Beavercreek — he simply puts himself at a place along the bus route and hails a ride.

• YSHS’s ‘West Side Story’ sweeps you up

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Yellow Springs High School thespians present the romantic tragedy “West Side Story”, based on “Romeo and Juliet” with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.