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  • Family philanthropy benefits Yellow Springs

    By Megan BachmanSeptember 8, 2011

    Playing at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, near a new fence financed with a 2009 Morgan Family Foundation grant, are Oliver Bahn and Isaac Ellis. The Morgan Family Foundation, which has given away millions of dollars to local groups since 2003, was founded by Lee and Vicki Morgan. At each family reunion the Morgan Family Foundation offers each family member the opportunity to give $500 to an organization of their choice. (Submitted Photo)

    Many Yellow Springs nonprofits have a friend in the Morgan Family Foundation, which has contributed several million dollars to local groups since 2003.

  • David S. Marshall

    By YS News Staff

    David S. Marshall died Tuesday, Aug. 23. He was 67.

  • Sept. 8, 2011 Bulldog Sports Round-up

    By YS News Staff

    YSHS freshman Taylor Beck putted for bogey at the par three second hole at Locust Hills Golf Course in Springfield last week, while teammate Liam Weigand cheered her on. Beck scored 66 over nine holes as the YSHS golf team (1–2) lost the match to Dayton Christian 209–170. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Sept. 8, 2011 Bulldog Sports Round-up

  • No-fracking event aims to mobilize

    By Megan Bachman

    Yellow Springs will host a regional meeting of community organizers working to prevent hydraulic fracturing, a controversial drilling technique linked to groundwater contamination.

  • At 90, a wealth of memories

    By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 1, 2011

    At age 90, Frank Kakoi looks back on a long and happy life, although it included a period in a U.S. government relocation camp during World War II, since Kakoi and his family are Japanese. Ernest Morgan brought Kakoi to Yellow Springs to work at the Yellow Springs News in order to release him from the camp. Later, Morgan brought the rest of his family to the village. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    At age 90, Frank Kakoi has a good head for numbers, especially those that were meaningful in his life.

  • Barr project forum scheduled

    By Diane Chiddister

    At their Aug. 15 meeting, members of Village Council agreed to hold a public hearing on the Planned Unit Development, or PUD, request from Home, Inc. to build senior apartments on the Barr property downtown at Council’s Sept. 19 meeting.

  • 11 candidates vie for offices

    By Lauren Heaton

    Well past the filing deadline for the Nov. 8 local elections, 11 candidates are officially seeking election for offices in the village.

  • Baxter Patrick

    By YS News Staff

    Baxter S. Patrick died peacefully on Aug. 12 at Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill, N.C.

  • AACW Blues Fest— Learning, love and music

    By Megan Bachman

    At this year’s annual Blues and Jazz Fest, African American Cross-Cultural Works can be expected to deliver another lineup of strong bands that draw large crowds.

  • The village is breaking out in hives

    By Megan Bachman

    Brian Johnson checked in on one of his hives on a recent warm afternoon, when the bees would be happy enough to let him take a peek. Lifting up a comb on a top-bar hive on Yellow Springs-Fairfield Pike, Johnson said the honey is forming well and will soon be ready to harvest. Johnson is one of a growing group of local beekeepers. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Thanks to village beekeepers, the town’s flowering trees and vegetation might be healthier, backyard gardens more productive and fruit trees more fruitful.

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