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• Mills Lawn School band and orchestra concert

  By Matt MindeDecember 12, 2013

  

  Over 100 students took to their instruments or wound up their vocal chords in a spectacular Mills Lawn School band and orchestra concert under the tutelage and leadership of new music director Brian Mayer.

• A tree for wishes, community

  By Anisa Kline

  

  Beginning in late August, villagers may have noticed that a tree next to the train station was growing ribbons along with its leaves. Upon closer inspection, the ribbons reveal themselves to be wishes.

• Council leader looks back, ahead

  By Megan BachmanDecember 5, 2013

  

  A few months into her first term on Village Council, Judith Hempfling sat down at her computer and typed a resignation letter.

  Elected in 2006, Hempfling saw herself as a lone progressive voice on a more conservative Council, and said she felt pressured to go along with the Council majority, while her attempts to get legislation on the agenda were constantly blocked.

• Millicent Danita Walker-Jones

  By YS News Staff

  

  Millicent Danita Walker-Jones died November 25. She was 51.

• Elvish impersonators

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  At Friday night’s downtown Yellow Friday events, Santa’s Elves performed as a crowd of adults and children gathered for the tree lighting in Kings Yard.

• 2013 Community Thanksgiving Dinner

  By Susan Gartner

  

  The ninth year of Yellow Springs community Thanksgiving dinner was a huge success, thanks to the combined efforts of many people.

• Whooping cough in town

  By YS News Staff

  

  Whooping cough is on the rise in Ohio, and the disease has made its way to Yellow Springs, according to local medical professionals

• Making of a business park

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  How do business parks get developed in today’s still-troubled economy? Who pays for what?
  Those questions are timely to Yellow Springs, as Village Council will soon decide whether to provide $700,000 to fund the infrastructure for the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, as requested by Community Resources.

• A world of homebrew, wort and all

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Steam billowed from a six-gallon pot of boiling hot liquid on Chris Wyatt’s Elm Street back porch on a chilly Saturday morning recently. He hunched over a brew kettle of malted barley, water and hops, stirring every so often to admire the color and aroma of his budding brew. In three months, after aging, Wyatt would have a strong, dark British ale, but on that day he could only imagine the flavors that his timing, techniques and ingredients would impart.

• Street poets come inside to jam

  By Megan BachmanNovember 28, 2013

  

  There are many types of poems you might hear if you stumble into the Yellow Springs Community Poetry Jam on Friday night, where four local street poets are moving their acts inside for a “free-flowing evening” of poetry, music, improvisation and more.