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• Yellow Springs High School students to try alternative tests

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 23, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs High School students are scheduled to try out the first of a bevy of alternative standardized tests that the school district is considering for next year.

• Bulldog sports round-up

  By Megan Bachman

  

  CROSS COUNTRY Brown qualifies for regionals YSHS sophomore Levi Brown led the Bulldogs to a seventh-place finish out of nine teams at the OHSAA District Meet at the Miami Valley Career Technical Center on Saturday. With his 17:56 personal best run in the 5K race, Brown finished 13th out of 64 runners and earned a […]

• Antioch College ‘needs more’

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt summarized the significant challenges involved in remaking the college, now at the start of its fourth year of operation: “You can see it from here, but it’s still just slightly out of reach.”

• Yellow Springs spends over income

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  On Oct. 6 Village Council began its annual series of budget planning workshops with a sober look at the second year of deficit spending in the general fund.

• Children get a choice at Montessori school

  By Megan BachmanOctober 16, 2014

  

  It’s a school without teachers, a place where the children teach themselves. What sounds radical is a concept developed by Dr. Maria Montessori more than 100 years ago and now in use in more than 7,000 schools around the world.

• Artists tell their own stories on Yellow Springs Artist Studio Tour

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Want to hear how stained glass is assembled, what a soda kiln is, or how a screenprinting machine makes T-shirts? The annual Yellow Springs Artist Studio Tour and Sale is one way to learn about the art-making process from local artists themselves.

• Crime author ferrets out her plots

  By Megan Bachman

  

  While Cynthia Pauuwel’s new crime mystery “Forty & Out” is based around a morbid concept, it’s really the story of the female detective out to find the killer while balancing police politics, a clingy almost-ex-husband and a family rift.

• Last Antioch College class enters on Horace’s tab

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The incoming class at Antioch College may be more diverse, more international and more committed to saving the world than the three classes above them.

• Interim Yellow Springs police chief a former major

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  After just a few days on the job, Yellow Springs Interim Police Chief Dave Hale can see that the YSPD is an “established, well-run department,” he said in an interview last week. During the two months or so he expects to be here, he intends to keep it that way.

• Mary Julia Alexander

  By YS News Staff

  

  Mary Julia (Adams), Alexander, 77, passed away October 1, 2014. Mary, daughter of Ivanora (Howard) and Richard Adams, was born April 25, 1937 in Xenia, OH.