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• Volleyball team wins, family style

  By Megan BachmanOctober 25, 2012

  

  Even for a team of such fierce competitors, the prospect of going into Division I Fairborn on the Skyhawks’ senior night and getting a victory was a stretch. But on Sept. 26, the Division III Yellow Springs High School girls’ varsity volleyball team rallied to defeat Fairborn in five sets.

• New class to continue shaping college

  By Megan BachmanOctober 18, 2012

  

  Meredith Martin is one of a new crop of Antioch College students, a cohort 75-strong composed of enthusiastic young people who arrived on campus last week ready to remake the college, which reopened last year.

• Yellow Springs Artists Studio Tour — Art and the artist on display

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The once-a-year chance to peek inside a local artist’s studio and discover their process draws some of the biggest art-loving crowds to Yellow Springs each October.

• Women’s shelter started in Yellow Springs

  By Jeff Simons

  Local resident Susan Stiles helped found the Family Violence Prevention Center — informally known as the Xenia Women’s Shelter — in Greene County in 1979. Then it was called the Greene County Domestic Violence Project. It was initially located in a couple of different locations in Yellow Springs.

• William Henry Gish Jr.

  By YS News Staff

  William Henry Gish Jr. died peacefully on May 24 at Scripps Encinitas Memorial Hospital, following a brief illness.

• Village to consider bidding on land parcel downtown

  By Lauren Heaton

  The Village Station development that has been hanging on as a concept plan for office and retail space at the corner of Dayton and Railroad Streets is all but quashed. But an opportunity for a new idea may be coming soon.

• Oct. 18, 2012 Bulldog Sports

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Oct. 18, 2012 Bulldog Sports

• Zoning plans for an eclectic town

  By Lauren Heaton

  The Yellow Springs zoning code has been viewed as cumbersome and expensive to approve, and is currently in the midst of an overhaul.

• Methodists celebrate 175 years

  By Matt Minde

  

  It was the year Martin Van Buren became the eighth president of the United States. Two months after his inauguration, New York City’s major banks failed, igniting the “Panic of 1837.” And in that same year, right here in Yellow Springs, the United Methodist Church held its first meetings.

• Local man seeks change in Ohio

  By Megan BachmanOctober 11, 2012

  

  Being a Yellow Springer, and a long shot, Democratic candidate Jeff Robertson’s run for the Ohio Senate — an ambitious undertaking in a Republican-leaning district — is anything but conventional. At a campaign fundraiser at The Winds Cafe this week, Robertson eschewed a tie, served an all-vegetarian meal, spent more time reading from his recently published political thriller than stumping, and seemed more interested in raising awareness than raising money.