From The Print Section :: Page 452

• Leading the college to wellness

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 27, 2014

  

  For the past six months there’s been a gaping hole at the back of Antioch College Curl Gym, where the pool used to be. But the renovation of the 85-year old building is closing in on a completion date sometime in July.

• Coming home, but not for the jobs

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  The high point of the Yellow Springs economy, like that of much of the rest of the nation, seems to have been during the post-World War II boom years of the 1950s and 60s. The town’s four small industries — Morris Bean, Vernay, YSI and Antioch Bookplate — employed hundreds of workers each, Antioch College was going strong, and small research firms — the Fels Lab and Kettering Research Institute, among others — fed off the college’s intellectual vitality.

• Documentarian asks what makes community

  By Megan Bachman

  

  What is it about Yellow Springs that gives the town such a strong sense of community?
  That’s the question that local filmmaker Patti Dallas asks more than 30 local people in the first part of a new documentary series on the village, “Yellow Springs — Exploring the Elements of Community.”

• Village Council approves deficit budget

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs will spend about $200,000 more than in takes in receipts in 2014, according to an operations budget Council unanimously passed at its meeting on Monday, March 17.

• Sheriff’s inquiry faults officer

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Seven months after the shooting standoff in Yellow Springs that ended with the death of Paul E. Schenck, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s department released the findings of an investigation of the two Greene County officers who fired weapons during the event.

• A rehab for the rehab

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The large cages for Glen Helen’s 30 permanent avian residents have served the Raptor Center for over 30 years. But the wire and wood are aging and have not met current regulation for some time.

• AUM president at home at Midwest

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  When Karen Schuster Webb became president of Antioch University Midwest in January, she had been here for less than two months. But she had a pretty good idea what she was getting into.

• Joel Hayden Jr.

  By YS News Staff

  

  Joel Babcock Hayden Jr., who taught history and Russian at Antioch College in the mid-1950s, died Saturday, March 22, at Orchard Park Rehabilitation & Living Center in Farmington, Maine. He was 92. A native of Cleveland, he earned a bachelor’s degree in music from Oberlin College before going on to get a Ph.D. in history, […]

• Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates’— It’s the very model of a YSHS musical

  By Megan BachmanMarch 20, 2014

  

  For a generation raised on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” action films, the Victorian-era comic opera “Pirates of Penzance” might seem out of date.
  With operatic music, jokes that landed before the turn of the 20th century and more dance numbers than sword fights, “Pirates of Penzance” is a different kind of pirate production for these local teens.

• Battle comes home, with clarinet

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Yellow Springs native and one-time Yellow Springs News paper carrier Mark Battle will return to town with his clarinet in tow next week to perform a house concert with colleague and friend, pianist George Lopez.