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• Bulldog Sport Roundup

  By Megan BachmanAugust 30, 2012

  

  Boys soccer starts 3–0 The Yellow Springs High School boys varsity soccer kicked off their season with three straight victories — over Greenon, Springfield-Shawnee and Cincinnati Hills Christian. The 3–0 season start is the first in while, according to Coach Ben Van Ausdal, who has high hopes for his team. “I think we’re going to […]

• Patricia Olds

  By YS News Staff

  Patricia Olds died Aug.13. She was 81.

• West Nile issue: to spray or not?

  By Megan Bachman

  Last Thursday about 6:30 a.m, as many villagers still slept, a Greene County Combined Health District truck rolled slowly through a neighborhood in southern Yellow Springs spraying a fine mist of insecticides.

• Community focus of new Pot Shop leader

  By Anisa Kline

  

  When Allison Paul created a mosaic with schoolchildren for her final project as a fine arts major at Earlham College, she experienced firsthand the value of community-based art projects.

• Barr property gets second offer

  By Lauren Heaton

  A second purchase option for the Barr property arose over the summer after funding for its development with senior apartments fell through.

• Drilling ban is approved

  By Diane Chiddister

  At their meeting Monday, Aug. 20, Village Council took an initial step toward becoming the first municipality in Ohio to ban fracking and injection wells within its borders.

• Clifton Gorge Music & Arts Festival— In with the old—and the new

  By Jeff Simons

  

  Clifton is back on the map. The festival map, that is.

• Village Council— Streetscape plan is curbed

  By Diane Chiddister

  At their Aug. 20 meeting, Village Council members said no to a controversial and ambitious plan to change the downtown streetscape.

• Chamber music fundraiser— Italy remixed, in music and in place

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  This weekend, as a fundraiser for CMYS, a local string ensemble will perform an intimate concert of Baroque sonatas in the setting of an Italian villa that matches the scene of the music’s inception.

• West Nile virus in Village

  By Megan BachmanAugust 23, 2012

  Local mosquitoes tested positive last week for West Nile Virus, a potentially serious illness, prompting the Greene County Combined Health District to begin spraying insecticide in one village neighborhood.