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• First small step for senior apartments

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 18, 2011

  The most recent senior housing complex proposed for the Barr property downtown got its first nod from Village Planning Commission during a packed public hearing on Monday, Aug. 8.

• Farming food, reaping knowledge

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 11, 2011

  

  Preparing the ground for incoming students took on new meaning last week at Antioch College, as the revived college launched the Antioch College Farm, its first major sustainability project.

• P.O. changes, service same

  By Megan Bachman

  Changes have begun at the Yellow Springs Post Office as part of a nationwide effort by the U.S. Postal Service to cut costs by closing some post offices and consolidating functions among others.

• e-HDS prepares local move

  By Lauren Heaton

  “It’s exciting, isn’t it? We’re going to stay in Yellow Springs,” e-Health Data Solutions President John Sheridan said last week. “I’m happy everything worked out.”

• Teachers agree to pay freeze

  By Lauren Heaton

  The Yellow Springs school board unanimously approved a new contract with the Yellow Springs Education Association at its meeting Monday, Aug. 1.

• Jacoby headwaters land preserved

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The Semler farm on Snypp Road, one mile west of Yellow Springs, is one of only four remaining dairy farms in Greene County and contains the spring-fed headwaters of the Jacoby Creek, a source of the Village’s drinking water

• New, lush tunes on village streets

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Ben Hemmendinger says that his mom insists that when he bought his first accordion at age 8 (with a $20 gift from his grandmother), he said someday he’d play the instrument in the street.

• Center seeks input on new vision

  By Megan Bachman

  

  While riding on the bike path one weekend, out-of-town architect Doug Gallow and his gerontologist wife, Ellen, who specialize in designing senior centers, just happened to pass the Yellow Springs Senior Center and stop in.

• T-ball love, Yellow Springs style

  By Jimmy Chesire

  

  Someone put a hundred dollar bill in our donation jar Friday night. A hundred dollars! It stuns and gratifies us.

• Rebuilding YSHS football

  By Megan Bachman

  Football may return to Yellow Springs High School this year if efforts to organize a team by new Head Coach Clayton Wolfe and new Athletic Director Steve Rossi are successful.