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• Marlin Newell of the Children’s Center— 25 years of hugs from our children

  By Megan BachmanJune 12, 2014

  

  Marlin Newell has been at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center for long enough that the toddlers she potty-trained and taught to walk are now returning to enroll their own children.

• A new force for engaged democracy

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Crowdsourcing has been used for everything from tracking the path of meteors to coming up with new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors.

  A new local political party now sees promise in using online tools to ask villagers to solve community problems. Eventually citizens could help run the town from their computers and smartphones.

• YSAC grapples with funding loss

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  It’s been a year since the Morgan Foundation announced its suspension of about $1 million in annual grants to local and regional agencies. While the funding loss cut a swath through local nonprofits, the Yellow Springs Arts Council, or YSAC, was hit hardest, as the organization in recent years relied on the foundation for most of its operating costs.

• Adele Mary Kelble

  By YS News Staff

  

  Adele Mary Kelble, of Xenia, was called to the side of her Lord on June 3. She was 76. Adele was preceded in death by her son Michael Kelble (Rosa ), of Laredo, Texas; brother Richard Snelling; sister Eileen Meyers and brother Greg Snelling. Cherishing her memory are her children, Nick Kelble(Anne) of Winston Salem, […]

• Kelli Weaver-Miner

  By YS News Staff

  

  This is a corrected version of an obituary that was published last week. Kelli Weaver-Miner, age 44, of Champaign, Ill., passed away in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, May 25. Kelli was a former geologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey and a homemaker. She was a Battelle Scholar, recipient of the W.E.B. DuBois Talented Tenth […]

• Kelli Weaver-Miner

  By YS News StaffJune 5, 2014

  

  Kelli Weaver-Miner, age 44, of Champaign, Ill., passed away in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, May 2.

• William Edwards Alexander

  By YS News Staff

  

  William Edward Alexander Sr., long-time resident of Yellow Springs, died in Louisville, Ky. on May 12.

• Parent help in digital world

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube.

  Social media — digital formats that promote virtual interactions — have become a ubiquitous part of our children’s lives

• A risky, comic ‘Joan D’Arc’

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Starving in a prison cell in France awaiting trial for heresy, the 15th century teenage heroine Joan of Arc had little to laugh about.

  But add comedic banter between the saints in her visions, a puppet show reenacting the entire 100 Years War between France and England, and the high drama of a modern cable television talk show, “Saint Chat,” and suddenly a story that ends with a burning at the stake may seem funny.

• Village tackles water system

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  One of the filters at the Village drinking water plant failed last month. The malfunction is being repaired at a minor cost to the Village. And while the Village asks that residents continue to conserve water where possible (minimizing lawn watering), the facility’s two other filters are keeping up with demand.