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  • Art & Soul: Art both high-quality and affordable

    By Megan BachmanNovember 20, 2014

    Last year more than 850 people attended the Art & Soul art fair which features high-caliber local and regional artists selling fine arts and crafts across many price ranges. This year’s fair is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at Mills Lawn School gym. (Submitted photo)

    Those who can embrace the idea of a high-caliber art fair in an elementary school gym will be treated this Saturday to some of the finest and most striking pieces of local and regional art.

  • Police chief search continues— Village still seeks applicants

    By Lauren Heaton

    Among the 18 candidates who have so far applied for the position of Yellow Springs police chief are three internal candidates, one former Village police chief and one finalist candidate from the previous chief search process.

  • Street work messy but promising

    By Lauren Heaton

    Crew members of Village contractor Durst Brothers Excavation were tearing up the town this week to construct new sidewalks and plant new trees along the east side of Xenia Avenue. The current phase of the streetscape renovation is scheduled to be finished before Thanksgiving. (photo by Lauren Heaton)

    Although they were invasive and well past their expected lifespan, the eight Callery pear trees that were lifted from the downtown last week will be missed.

  • James ‘Jake’ French Lehrer

    By YS News Staff

    Jake Lehrer

    James “Jake” French Lehrer died suddenly in Asheville, N.C. after a brief illness. He was 62.

  • Website a clearinghouse for help

    By Megan Bachman

    Linda Rudawski, left, and Antioch College student Kabbeh Davies are gathering information for the Village Human Relations Commissions’ online directory “Yellow Springs Help,” a comprehensive resource for those in need. A website training for local providers to input their information is 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Friends Care Community Skilled Nursing Center. RSVPs are required. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Locals who need help will soon have a “digital case manager” to connect them with the right resources.

  • Artists under lock and key

    By Megan BachmanNovember 13, 2014

    Three artists will be locked in the Yellow Springs Arts Council Community Gallery for 72 hours next week and expected to come out with a collaborative art installation from two boxes of collected materials. Participating in “Locked In,” from left, are videographer Travis Hawkes, and artists Jennifer Bachelder of Columbus, Ron Hundt of Kettering and Pierre Nagley of Yellow Springs. The installation runs Nov. 15–30 with an opening from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14. (Submitted photos)

    Put a Yellow Springs muralist, a Kettering city planner and a Columbus trash artist in a gallery. Add two boxes of random art materials. Allow them three tools apiece. Hire a videographer to record them.
    Then don’t let them out for three days.

  • Antioch University moves to Midwest

    By Lauren Heaton

    Antioch University offices moved into the AU Midwest building this week. Pictured in front are the administrative staff of both institutions, from left, back row, chair of AUM’s Early Childhood Education program Julie Biddle, Enrollment Management Vice Chancellor Ronald Brown, Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Director Sara Ross, VP of Institutional Advancement Ian Swedish, Library Director Steve Shaw, Marketing Manager Kelly Leff; and front row, School of Education Director Marian Glancy, AUM President Karen Schuster Webb, University Chancellor Felice Nudelman, core faculty member Mary Ann Short, Regional CFO Barbra Stewart, and presidential assistant Jennifer Maynard. (Photo by Lauren Heaton)

    The hallways at Antioch University Midwest rumbled with the sounds of moving furniture, artwork and people this week as the 40 Antioch University administrators formerly located across the street moved into the Midwest building.

  • Returns: CBE fails; library, fire levy win

    By YS News Staff

    Public funding for the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, went down with a resounding “No” on Election Day, with 64 percent of villagers voting against the public funding, and 36 percent voting in favor. The vote brings to a halt Village Council’s decision to move ahead with the business park, which has been in the making for more than 10 years.

  • 18 apply for chief

    By Lauren Heaton

    When the Village stopped taking applications for the position of Yellow Springs police chief on Oct. 31, the municipality had 18 candidates from both inside the department and as far as Rhode Island, according to Village Manager Patti Bates, who will hire the next chief. So far, the hiring process is on schedule, and the Village is set to name the next chief in mid-December, Bates said this week.

  • Village Council chooses top firm— Water plant process begins

    By Diane Chiddister

    At their Nov. 3 meeting, Village Council members took a significant step toward constructing a new water plant. Council selected its top choice out of three preliminary design firms for the project, and if negotiations on cost are successful, the firm could begin the design process soon, according to Village Manager Patti Bates this week. The entire building process is expected to take two years.

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