From The Print Section :: Page 427

• Dragons, Pirates tie in nail-biter

  By Tim SherwoodJuly 10, 2014

  

  The shortened holiday week and another late afternoon thunderstorm resulted in only a single minor league game completed last week, but it was probably the most exciting one of the season yet.

• ‘Superhuman Happiness’ at YSKP

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Everything changes, nothing perishes.

  So writes Roman poet Ovid in his magnum opus “Metamorphoses,” from which the new Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse original musical “Superhuman Happiness” is adapted.

• Village vampire taps a wicked vein

  By Megan Bachman

  

  He is a blood-sucking renegade vampire resurrected into a revenge-mad ghost villian after his heart is ripped out.

  While this character of Enzo on the CW television network’s “Vampire Diaries” may be macabre, it’s one that actor Michael Malarkey has been dying to play.

• Yellow Springs Summer Strings winds down— Come one, come all to Grand Finale

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Two weeks ago, the Yellow Springs Summer Strings and Band Program had its Grande Finale concert outside at Mills Lawn. The youth played their violas and clarinets to the tune of “Cherokee Chief,” “Slavic Air,” and an all-camp sing to “The Power of One.”

• Antioch College gets OK on solar array

  By Megan BachmanJuly 3, 2014

  

  Antioch College cleared a major hurdle this week in its plan to build a 1-megawatt solar array on campus.

• Yellow Springs schools aim to opt out of tests

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Ohio legislature recently approved an education bill that gives Yellow Springs schools a chance to apply for a waiver from any and all state and federally mandated standardized tests.

• Water plant decision moves ahead

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  A decision on how to deal with the ailing Village water plant needs to take place soon, Village Council members were told at their June 16 meeting. “Joe believes the project can’t wait,” Council President Karen Wintrow said to Council, referring to Village Water and Wastewater Plant Superintendent Joe Bates. In recent weeks, one of […]

• John Owen Hevelin

  By YS News Staff

  

  John Owen Hevelin, born May 10, 1946, died in Santa Cruz, Calif. on May 11. He had deep attachments to Yellow Springs and to Antioch College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in English, education and history in 1968. A life-long pacifist, John was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and was assigned […]

• Local roots show at Summer Music Bash

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Blues riffs, DJ scratches, hip-hop beats and R&B harmonies will mingle in the hot July air in downtown Yellow Springs at an upcoming celebration of local music.

• Sea Dogs are off and swimming

  By YS News Staff

  

  The Yellow Springs Aquatic Club Sea Dogs summer swim team are off and swimming. They won one meet against Forest Ridge, after competing in three swim meets so far this summer. Results are as follows, 6 and under 25 free: first place, Zan Holtgrave; second place, Javin Obringer; third place, Brady Clark; 6 and under […]