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• Village planner’s job to end

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 13, 2012

  

  After seven years as the face of all things related to public planning and development in the village, Ed Amrhein is leaving his position as assistant Village planner. His last day will be Friday, Dec. 14.

• Villagers share the holiday spirit

  By Jeff Simons

  

  What began more than 20 years ago with a small group of local volunteers collecting fruit baskets for low-income families has evolved into a program—Share the Joy—whereby struggling families in Yellow Springs can request essential gifts for themselves and their children.

• Energy efficiency within reach

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  When Pat Murphy came to Yellow Springs in 2003, he said he could build a house that operated with 50 percent less fossil fuels than a conventional home, but his partner, Faith Morgan, didn’t believe him. Now, 10 years later, the couple is wrapping up a new film about homes built in Yellow Springs and around the country that use 90 percent less energy to heat and cool than conventional dwellings.

• Dec. 13, 2012 Bulldog sports round-up

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Dec. 13, 2012 Bulldog sports round-up

• Jerry Hubschman

  By YS News StaffDecember 6, 2012

  Jerry H. Hubschman died of pancreatic cancer on Monday, Nov. 19. He was 83.

• Let furniture rise from the ashes

  By Megan Bachman

  The coming decimation of the village’s ash tree population by an invasive Asian beetle — a kind of “Arborgeddon” for a tree that represents about one out of every 10 in our canopy — is a dismal story. Many beloved trees — on Mills Lawn, at the Antioch College campus, in the Glen — have already died. Others are showing signs of stress.

• Council plans budget hearing

  By Lauren Heaton

  Village Council convened one last budget workshop last week before the first official public hearing on the budget takes place on Monday, Dec. 3, at the Bryan Center in Council chambers. Council plans to approve the budget in early January, much earlier than it has done in the recent past.

• Antioch University Midwest—Budget darkens union talk

  By Lauren Heaton

  Antioch University Midwest has hit difficult financial times, and the reality is affecting the local campus in several ways. This month Midwest leaders told the school community that they planned to cut $208,000 in personnel costs by the end of this year. Midwest did not specify where the cuts would come from, but indicated that the campus needed to find ways to stem a rising deficit caused by low enrollment over the last several years.

• Ruth Bayless

  By YS News Staff

  Ruth Bayless, 84, of Yellow Springs died on Saturday, Dec. 1, at Friends Care Center.

• Students sail by state exam

  By Lauren Heaton

  By design of the evaluation tool, the Yellow Springs school district fell this year from “excellent with distinction” to just “excellent” in its quality designation on the State of Ohio report card. But the apparent reduction in status was merely a technical result of the State’s metrics, as the district received exactly the same student-wide achievement score as last year, when it was labeled “excellent with distinction” for the second consecutive year.