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• Active life of a Peace Corps logo

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 4, 2011

  

  Sometimes the force of design is powerful enough to sustain a momentum completely independent of the designer.

• Judge considers Struewing suit

  By Lauren Heaton

  “It’s an interesting case,” was one of the last statements made by Greene County Magistrate Raymond Dundes at the close of the trial between the Village of Yellow Springs and Miami Township property owners Ken and Betheen Struewing.

• How we’re weathering the weather

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  The upside of last week’s heat wave was that villagers had an ever-ready conversational topic, and the phrase “Hot enough for ya?” took on new meaning.

• New faces in local races

  By Megan Bachman

  Last weekend Village Council candidate Dan Reyes walked door-to-door in his neighborhood to collect petition signatures and learn what’s important to villagers. While Reyes said he won’t bring an agenda to Council, he hopes to weigh in on growth and development and help the village capitalize on its educators and artists.

• Rumpke gets nod as trash collector

  By Diane Chiddister

  Yellow Springs Village Council decided at its July 18 meeting that if “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” regarding the hiring of a contractor for solid waste pickup.

• The tiny warriors of t-ball

  By Jimmy Chesire

  It was another scorcher. Ninty-three degrees at 6:30 p.m. (though the humidity was only 49 percent, which helped some). Five kids got us started — we had 25 on the diamond before the rains sent us home early, and for the third time this season. Dane Beal, 5, is for me one of the keenest […]

• Friends aide accused of assault

  By Lauren Heaton

  Yellow Springs police arrested a Friends Care Community employee last week for sexually assaulting one of the extended care center’s residents.

• Mitchell Cary

  By YS News StaffAugust 2, 2011

  Mitchell Cary, 64, a retired United States Air Force test pilot who worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a civilian, died last Saturday in a plane crash outside of Springfield. Cary was piloting a Wright “B” Flyer’s Silver Bird look-alike with Don Gum of Beavercreek, who also died, when it crashed in a field […]

• Dan Hotaling memorial

  By YS News Staff

  Friends of Dan Hotaling are invited to a memorial service and celebration of his life on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2–4 p.m. in the Glen Helen Building. Dan, who died March 28, would have been 83. Those planning to attend should RSVP to Dale Hotaling by calling 767-9414.

• Barbara Jane “Babs” Bullen

  By YS News Staff

  Barbara Jane Bullen died Monday, Aug. 1, at Greenewood Manor. She was 86. She was born September 4, 1924, in Yellow Springs, Ohio the daughter of Ralph and Mildred (Rienwald) Figgins. Barbara graduated from John Bryan High School in Yellow Springs, where she was a cheerleader. She worked with her husband in his family operated […]