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• Living well in a tiny house

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 14, 2013

  If you close your eyes before entering Alex Melamed and Allison Paul’s new Walnut Street home, then open your eyes once inside, you might not realize you’re in a tiny home. The high-ceilinged, light-filled living room feels spacious, with a kitchen on one end and a bed, out of sight, in the loft above.

• Springs Motel turns over keys

  By Lauren Heaton

  The charm of the little roadside motel that attracted Eric Clark 10 years ago has hooked a new buyer with an eye for potential. Kat Krehbiel purchased the Springs Motel last week and has plans for its continued revival, possibly including a new place to eat on the south end of town. But to start out, Krehbiel’s main hope is to keep her first motel business alive and well.

• Mary Lee Boles

  By YS News Staff

  Mary Lee Boles of Yellow Springs passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, March 10 at Greene Memorial Hospital. She was 78.

• Planning Commission on zoning update— Gauging flexibility for work at home

  By Diane Chiddister

  Tiny houses, home businesses and zoning for the now-closed Norah’s dominated the discussion of Planning Commission on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at a special meeting to continue to review the Village zoning code revision. The planners will hold a public hearing on the revision on Thursday, March 21. After that, the code revision will go to Council for further review and final approval.

• Center Stage play opens Friday— ‘The Crucible’ across eras

  By Anisa Kline

  In the upcoming weeks, the Center Stage community theater group will put on its fourth theater production since its revival in 2011.

• Paul F. Ihrig

  By YS News Staff

  Paul F. Ihrig, aged 99 years and 8 months, died Saturday, March 2, at Friends Care Community.

• Police views on gun control vary— Many officers for background checks

  By Lauren Heaton

  On Jan. 28 five young men between the ages of 19 and 23 entered a home on Victoria Avenue in Fairborn to purchase marijuana. During the transaction, one of the visitors threatened the residents with a weapon and attempted to rob them. Instead, the resident pulled out his own gun and shot two of the visitors, injuring one and killing the other, Ta’Vaun Fambrough, a 19-year-old Central State University freshman.

• John ‘Johnnyk’ Kilbourne

  By YS News StaffMarch 7, 2013

  Johnnyk, 51, passed away quietly on Feb. 25 in Yakima, Wash., surrounded by family and friends, after a short battle with melanoma cancer.

• Energy group helps Village to conserve

  By Diane Chiddister

  According to the 2012 annual report from the Yellow Springs Energy Board at Village Council’s Feb. 19 meeting, the Village will, in the next few years, receive the large majority of its electrical power from renewable sources.

• WYSO’s ReInvention Stories— Dayton resilience, on air and web

  By Anisa Kline

  ReInvention Stories, a collaboration between WYSO public radio and local filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, uses video, radio and interactive online media to explore how Dayton is re-charging itself after years of economic collapse.