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• Mills Lawn school reopens — Students to practice inclusion, service

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 29, 2013

  

  Project-based learning (PBL) is at the fore this year at Yellow Springs schools, and Mills Lawn is no exception. But the school also has other goals for the year.

• Laura Curliss to leave Village Manager position

  By Diane Chiddister

  At Village Council’s Aug. 19 meeting, Council unanimously approved a resolution that allows the Village and Village Manager Laura Curliss to enter into a settlement agreement that releases Curliss from her contract with the Village.

• Robust field for local races

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 22, 2013

  In the past several weeks, several additional villagers have thrown their hats in the ring for local elective offices, making this year’s election season especially robust. Eight people are running for the three open seats on Village Council, seven seek the three seats on the Yellow Springs Board of Education and seven are running for […]

• Art to wear in “Bling” show

  By Megan Bachman

  Jewelry has adorned the human body for 100,000 years as a way to ward off evil spirits, signify religious affiliation and more. It’s also wearable art, and since walking around with an armful of paintings can be cumbersome, donning jewelry is a better way to show off one’s artwork in public. That’s one reason Yellow […]

• YSHS/McKinney to open­— New staff, new way of learning

  By Megan Bachman

  This school year students at Yellow Springs High School/McKinney School will plan for the zombie apocalypse, make documentaries, build roller coasters, erect a sculpture trail and work in agriculture as part of the new project-based learning, or PBL, curriculum that begins the 2013–14 school year. Implementing the district-wide mandate will be difficult, but the educational […]

• Board, Basora set contract

  By Diane Chiddister

  Last week the Yellow Springs District Board of Education and Superintendent Mario Basora came to an agreement about Basora’s contract with the local district, according to an Aug. 8 press release. The board will vote on the five-year amended contract at its regular Sept. 12 meeting. “We are pleased to announce that the superintendent has […]

• 30th annual Art on the Lawn

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  Perfect summer weather graced the 30th annual Art on the Lawn last Saturday.

• The 16th annual AACW Blues Fest­— Blues, jazz and gospel to reign

  By Diane Chiddister

  A blues singer from Uruguay will make her first appearance at this year’s AACW Blues, Jazz and Gospel Fest, to take place Aug. 22 through 25 at the Antioch College amphitheatre. The singer, Virginia Martinez, contacted Blues Fest organizers because she’d heard of the event and wanted to perform, according to Karen Patterson. When Patterson […]

• Bianca Stone Chappelle released

  By Megan BachmanAugust 15, 2013

  Bianca Stone Chappelle will be sentenced Sept. 4 in Greene County Common Pleas Court after being found guilty last month on some charges but cleared of more serious ones.

• Divisions over contracts — Yellow Springs School board admonished

  By Lauren Heaton

  After a tense school board meeting on Saturday, Aug. 3, called on Friday to resume a discussion that had been tabled at the previous Thursday’s meeting, the board voted unanimously to approve new contracts with raises for five of the district’s principals and program directors.