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• Yellow Springs schools aim to opt out of tests

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 3, 2014

  

  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 […]

• Community Solutions evolves— New director for nonprofit

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Global warming. Climate change. Peak Oil.

  News about environmental concerns is frequently grim and overwhelming. What can a single person do?

• Major League Reds A and B tie

  By Tim Sherwood

  

  The Winds Cafe Indians extended their undefeated record to 4–0 and remain atop the Minor League rec baseball standings after the second full week of play. The Indians’ contest against the Vintage Truck Dragons on June 23 was called after only two-and-a-half innings due to a thunderstorm. Then the first game on June 28 saw […]

• Me the Bridge and the T-ball gang

  By Jimmy Chesire

  

  One of the exercises we do as part of our warm-up is to get on our hands and knees in the thick, three-inch long, green, green grass of the right field — “I know,” Tommy Moore, 6, says when we finish touching our noses to our toes, anticipating what comes next. Even before I say […]

• Village ends appeals process — Courts side with Struewings

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  A panel of three Ohio appeals court judges last month sided unanimously with Ken and Betheen Struewing in their case against the Village over rights to Village water and sewer services.

• Well on the way to Wellness

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Last Saturday Antioch College opened to the public its 44,000-square foot Wellness Center currently undergoing a yearlong $8 million renovation. The Wellness Center announced its membership rates in an insert in this week’s News and at http://www.wellnesscenter.antiochcollege.org, and has launched a community fundraising campaign to help pay off the center.