From The Print Section :: Page 473

• In 80s, incubator boosted businesses in Yellow Springs

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 17, 2014

  

  One of Village government’s first attempts at revving up the economy involved hiring villagers Vicki Morgan and Phyllis Schmidt in 1986 as Yellow Springs Associates, in an attempt to improve the image of Yellow Springs to surrounding communities.

• Yellow Springs Community Foundation celebrates 40 years cultivating community

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The three-heart logo that has stood for the Yellow Springs Community Foundation since 1974 represents its three pillars — the donors, the recipients and the beneficiaries: the people of Yellow Springs.

• Wellness doctor hopes to return to Village

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Donald Gronbeck, a 2002 Antioch College graduate, hopes to start his first practice, Yellow Springs Primary Care, the first week of May at the former Creative Memories building, fronting on Dayton Street.

• Village Mediation mends village fences

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Village Mediation Program was erected in the 1980s to bring interested parties together to talk out their differences.

• Home Inc. offers workshop — Village foreclosure rate high

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Losing one’s home to foreclosure is most often traumatic. Foreclosures hurt communities, too. Though Yellow Springs has weathered the housing crisis well with only a small dip in home sale prices, foreclosure rates are relatively high here and may be on the uptick.

• Presbyterians, Methodists celebrate — Spirit of collaboration for Easter

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Only in Yellow Springs will this year’s Holy Week observance include a sing-along to “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

• Pharmacist fills mentor’s shoes

  By Carol SimmonsApril 10, 2014

  

  The new part-time pharmacist at Town Drug is a familiar face -— both in the village and at the pharmacy. Emma Robinow, 28, grew up in Yellow Springs and completed her pharmaceutical residency in town under the mentorship of Tim Rogers, who died in January.

• Deirdre Roche

  By YS News Staff

  

  Deirdre Roche, of Bass Harbor, Maine, died on April 5, after a period of declining health.

• Scouting for food

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  Mills Lawn fourth-grader C.J. Cooper recently spent time in Xenia “Scouting for food,” an annual Boy Scout-led food drive.

• Future farmers faring well

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Ohio’s newest chapter of the Future Farmers of America Organization was born at YSHS this school year.