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• Taking a stand

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 28, 2014

  

  About 120 members of the Antioch College and village community joined a Hands Up Walk Out on Monday to commemorate the funeral of Michael Brown, who was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9.

• Eugene Philip Diehl

  By YS News Staff

  

  Eugene Philip Diehl was born in Xenia on Oct. 9, 1925, to Anna Funderburg Diehl and Philip Diehl and died on Sunday, Aug. 24, just shy of his 89th birthday. Growing up in Yellow Springs, Gene worked on his parents’ farms and stabled several horses at the one just outside the village on Route 343. […]

• Psychologist Gary Klein— Fascinated by good decisions

  By Megan Bachman

  

  “I just knew what to do.”
  That’s the response many people give after making a quick decision in a stressful situation. But what does it mean? How do we really make decisions? And how can we make better ones?

• New streetscape to proceed

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Village government will soon move ahead to complete the streetscape changes on the east side of Xenia Avenue, from Dino’s Cappuccinos on the north end to Glen Street in the south, according to Village Manager Patti Bates at the Aug. 18 Council meeting.

• Children’s Center head let go

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  A teacher at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center said this week that YSCC Director Marlin Newell was fired by the board of trustees on Monday, Aug. 18. Newell had been on vacation, teacher EJ Waskiewicz said, when two board members asked her to sign a termination letter. Newell asked that Waskiewicz act as a witness to the event.

• Groundbreaking this Friday— Village/Home, Inc. project begins

  By Megan BachmanAugust 21, 2014

  

  A cozy cabin on Cemetery Street nestled near woods along a creek.
  To Erica and Caleab Wyant, their future home sounds straight out of a children’s fantasy story. But soon the local couple will realize their dream of owning a home in Yellow Springs, thanks to the Village’s first public affordable housing project.

• Alfred V. Johnson, Jr.

  By YS News Staff

  

  Alfred V. Johnson Jr. died Thursday, July 31. Beloved husband of Anna H. Johnson; devoted father of Alan Hull Johnson (Kathryn B.) and Alisa Johnson. He is also survived by two grandchildren; sister, Anna Mae Johnson; cousin, Rita Campbell; sister-in-law, Mary H. Bowers and other relatives and friends. Mr. Johnson is pictured during World War […]

• Village owed $200,000 in past-due bills

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Village government is owed almost $200,000 in past-due utility bills and the finance director is looking for ways to capture that revenue.

• Local welfare more than food?

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Armed with canned soup, dried beans, boxes of pasta and soft packages of bathroom tissue, Patty McAllister has worked for the past eight years to keep area residents fed through the Yellow Springs Area Food Pantry.

• Enough signatures

  By YS News Staff

  

  The Greene County Board of Elections has verified that a sufficient number of signatures were collected to put on the November ballot a referendum on public funding of the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, according to Board of Elections Deputy Director Nancy Johannes on Tuesday.