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• Wilbur Deaton

  By YS News StaffSeptember 13, 2012

  Wilbur W. Deaton died Saturday, Sept. 8, at Friends Care Center. He was 93. Wilbur was born on Sept. 28, 1918 to the late Glenn and Birdie (Swaney) Deaton in Springfield. Wilbur served his country as a lieutenant during World War II in the United States Navy, and was privileged to attend an Honor Flight […]

• Attorney Ellis Jacobs wins victory for early voting rights

  By Megan Bachman

  Ellis Jacobs wants to make sure every Ohioan’s vote counts. The villager, as founder and coordinator for the Miami Valley Voter Protection Coalition, has fought the legislative attempts to restrict voting that have escalated in Ohio in recent years. Last week, his cause scored a major victory when a federal court struck down an Ohio law restricting early voting on the weekend and Monday before the election.

• At Mills Lawn, inquiry is king

  By Megan Bachman

  The new buzzword in the Yellow Springs School District this school year is “inquiry-based learning,” and at Mills Lawn Elementary School the effort to guide learning around student interest and problem-solving is already under way.

• Teachers aim for big ideas

  By Lauren Heaton

  Every six seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from hunger. Leaders hunger for power, scholars hunger for knowledge, and demonstrators hunger to make statements about change. And everyone, big and small, hungers for love. Hunger is a big word, and its many iterations are the theme of this year’s McKinney School and Yellow Springs High School experience.

• New teachers at McKinney, YSHS

  By YS News Staff

  Brandon Lowry, Nancy Beers, Karleen Materne and Cameron McCoy

• Streetscape to be implemented in two stages

  By Diane Chiddister

  At their Sept. 4 meeting, members of Village Council voted unanimously to move ahead with a gradual process for improving the downtown streetscape. The initial phase of the project, planned for this fall, is aimed at fixing the sidewalks deemed most dangerous and removing the street trees causing the most sidewalk damage.

• Change afoot in credit union leadership

  By Lauren Heaton

  Last month the YS Federal Credit Union saw two sudden personnel changes. On July 26, Chief Executive Officer Karen Wolf resigned from a position she had held for 12 years. That same day, Sandy Hollenberg, then chief operating officer, became the interim CEO of the credit union.

• Bulldog Sports Roundup

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 6, 2012

  Golf team tees off In its second round of golf this season, the Yellow Springs High School co-ed golf team took on three visiting conference teams at its home course last week. Junior Rachele Orme once again showed her combination of accuracy, consistency and power in leading the Bulldogs with a score of 42 over […]

• Treesa Liming

  By YS News Staff

  Treesa Madellan Van Buren Liming died peacefully at home in Santa Fe, NM on Aug. 18. She was 91. Born March 13, 1921 in Evanston, Ill., Treesa lived most of her life in Yellow Springs, Worthington and Springfield, Ohio, before moving to Santa Fe in 1999. Treesa was the daughter of Rev. Vernon Van Buren, […]

• James Westlake

  By YS News Staff

  James M. Westlake died Saturday, Sept. 1, at Kendal at Granville. He was 84. Jim was born Nov. 17, 1927 in Chandler, Ohio to the late U.S. Air Force Chaplain, MacDonald Hopkins and Frances Ruth (VanSchoick) Westlake. Jim was a graduate and football co-captain of Rainelle High School in West Virginia. As a result of […]