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• A home that takes care of you

  By Megan BachmanApril 10, 2014

  

  A young couple hopes to quit their day jobs, live closer to the land and raise their toddler in nature. The story is straight out of the early 1970s, and so is the passive solar house the couple plans to build out of old tires and tin cans.

• Roberta Dodds Alexander

  By YS News Staff

  

  Roberta Dodds Alexander, née Postle, long time Yellow Springs resident, passed away Feb. 19, at Friends Care Community Center. She was 88 years old.

• Edythe Okun Powers

  By YS News Staff

  

  Edythe Okun Powers, of Yellow Springs passed away early on the morning of March 20 at the Friends Care Community Center. She was 86

• Patsy L. Amoes Demmings

  By YS News Staff

  

  Patsy L. Amos Demmings, of Dayton, formerly of Yellow Springs, died on April 1. She was 52.

• Help from a different kind of watchdog

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Finn Catalanotto and his twin sister Sophie were very eager to leave the playground next to the Springs Motel, where they have been staying this week away from their home in Cincinnati.

• April 10, 2014 Bulldog sports round-up

  By Megan Bachman

  

  April 10, 2014 Bulldog sports round-up

• Just for kicks

  By YS News Staff

  

  The Yellow Springs girls indoor soccer team recently held a banquet to celebrate the end of their first season.

• At time, home is where the work is

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Like many of today’s college graduates, Emma Woodruff left Antioch College under a mountain of debt and with few job prospects. So she fell into a growing local industry catering to tourists and residents — accommodation and food service — working stints as a Sunrise Café server and in the kitchen of the Emporium Café.

• Netting some new talent

  By YS News Staff

  

  On Sunday, March 31, six Yellow Springs boys and girls participated in a “Play Day” tennis event for first graders on the Antioch courts.

• Young’s Dairy robber sentenced

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Springfield man convicted of robbing Young’s Dairy in August 2012 was sentenced in Clark County Common Pleas Court last week to 15 years in prison. Barrett Grable, 26, was sentenced by Judge Richard O’Neill, after a jury found him guilty in February of aggravated robbery and kidnapping charges.