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• Council moves on public art

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 15, 2012

  Village Council members discussed the first draft of its first ever public art policy at their meeting Monday, Nov. 5. The policy, drafted by Village Manager Laura Curliss, covers the principles and procedures the Village will use to accept both permanent and temporary installations of art in Village-owned spaces.

• Donna Sanders

  By YS News Staff

  Donna M. Sanders died Saturday, Nov. 10, peacefully at home with family and friends and with the watchful help of Hospice.

• Stephen Thomas

  By YS News Staff

  

  Stephen D. Thomas of Great Falls, Mont. died unexpectedly on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at a local healthcare facility. He was 63.

• Pettiford new police chief

  By YS News Staff

  When village resident Tony Pettiford takes over as Yellow Springs police chief on Nov. 19, he will bring a deep knowledge of the community he has called home for 51 years, which he says will serve him well in his effort to keep Yellow Springs safe.

• Rosalie G. Pence

  By YS News Staff

  Rosalie G. Pence of Yellow Springs died Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Friends Care Community. She was 81.

• Wilma Snyder Casenhiser

  By YS News Staff

  

  Wilma Snyder Casenhiser died peacefully at home on Thursday, Nov. 8.

• New documentary by Aileen LeBlanc—Ethiopian Jews seek spiritual home

  By Jeff Simons

  On Nov. 21, 1984, a squadron of Israeli airliners, dubbed Operation Moses, landed in famine stricken Sudan and evacuated 8,000 Ethiopian Jewish refugees to Israel. Seven years later, in a follow-up 36-hour mission — Operation Solomon — 34 Israeli cargo planes and airliners landed in Ethiopia and airlifted an additional 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to the Promised Land

• Ohio premiere of ‘Sparkle’

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 8, 2012

  To be a dancer with an African-American dance company in the Midwest is not your everyday occupation. To also be 49 and still performing with that company is astonishing. To have suffered a critical injury and attempt to come back at that age, with that company, is the gripping story of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s Sheri “Sparkle” Williams. A short film, “Sparkle,” by local filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, will have its Ohio premiere in Dayton this week.

• Ryan rallies local support at dairy

  By Jeff Simons

  It was a little overcast and a bit blustery. But that didn’t stop more than 2,000 supporters from showing up at last Saturday’s Paul Ryan rally at Young’s Jersey Dairy. And a number of the Republican vice-presidential candidate’s supporters hailed from Yellow Springs.

• YSHS fall play picks up the pieces

  By Megan Bachman

  This year’s fall play at Yellow Springs High School has been full of drama with an unscripted denouement. Plagued by chronic absences and a slew of actors dropping out, three weeks into rehearsals for Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the production was scrapped.