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• Melanie Taylor

  By YS News StaffMay 2, 2013

  Melanie Joy Taylor (Van Eaton) slipped peacefully from this life on Thursday, April 4. She was 62. She died at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia after four years of dialysis following kidney failure and deteriorating health. She was able to remain in her home with her daughter’s care and to contribute to the next generation […]

• YSSC full of members, not funds

  By Lauren Heaton

  The Yellow Springs Senior Center, which serves vital health, transportation and social needs for the area’s senior citizens, for the first time in 2011 and 2012 budgeted for a 6 percent deficit. While the local center is serving more seniors than ever before, around 700 individuals per year, revenue has not kept pace with the expenses needed to serve a growing population of elders.

• Spills threaten Springfield aquifer

  By Megan BachmanApril 25, 2013

  About three-and-a-half miles northwest of Springfield’s municipal well field is a landfill where 51,500 barrels of industrial waste were buried in the 1970s. Laid end-to-end, the barrels would stretch for 28 miles.

• School Board— Improvement levy discussed

  By Lauren Heaton

  The Yellow Springs Schools Permanent Improvement levy that supports buildings and other fixed assets will expire at the end of the year, and the district is discussing whether to renew the levy at the same level or replace it at a higher one.

• Village Council— ‘Local dispatch worth cost’

  By Lauren Heaton

  Forty-five villagers gathered in Village Council chambers Monday night, many there to talk about their strong desire to maintain a local dispatch service at the Yellow Springs Police Department. A dozen people spoke, including long-time police officer Al Pierce, who talked about the value of the personal and called the village’s two full-time and five part-time dispatchers the “magnificent seven,” who hold the department together.

• Bulldog sports round-up

  By YS News Staff

  Co-ed tennis thrives in YS With the largest roster in years, the YSHS co-ed tennis team is thriving, according to Coach Donna Silvert. With 22 athletes on the team, the Antioch College tennis courts have been buzzing with activity on spring afternoons. In early season play, the team has yet to win a court or […]

• Frank Riley

  By YS News Staff

  Frank M. Riley of Yellow Springs passed away on Thursday, April 18, at Greene Memorial Hospital. He was 84. Frank was born on May 17, 1928 to the late Frank and Elsie Mae (Shinkle) Riley, in Jamestown. He worked hard advancing to become vice president of his division at the First National Bank of Dayton. […]

• Bryan Gregor

  By YS News StaffApril 18, 2013

  Clunie Bryan Gregor, educator, scientist and tempered hedonist died peacefully in his sleep on April 9 at the Friends Care Nursing Home in Yellow Springs.

• Conrad Mahle

  By YS News Staff

  Conrad Mahle died on Easter Sunday, March 31. He was 79.

• Digging deep into a garden’s gifts

  By Diane Chiddister

  A longtime former villager who still owns a house in town and plans to retire here, Carol Siyahi Hicks gives Yellow Springs credit for many things. For instance, it was here she found the friends who helped her discover her passion for the natural world, along with providing her company on trips into the wild.