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• Antioch hires first faculty, gains on accreditation

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 7, 2011

  Antioch College announced this week that the college has hired its first three tenure-track faculty members. And last week, the revived college received notice that it successfully jumped the first hurdle on the road to gaining accreditation.

• Gardens, gardeners sprouting

  By Megan Bachman

  

  What began as a modest effort to start a community garden has mushroomed to four neighborhood gardens scattered around town — with more soon to sprout.

• McKee group hosts housing talk

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Many questions were raised at a public meeting last Sunday sponsored by the James A. McKee Association, when representatives from Home, Inc. shared plans for an affordable housing project slated for Village-owned land on Cemetery Street.

• Jane Lee Ball

  By YS News Staff

  

  Jane L. Ball died on Monday, March 28. She was 81.

• Daniel Daley Hotaling

  By YS News Staff

  Daniel Daley Hotaling died Tuesday, March 28, surrounded by his family at the Tidewell hospice center in Venice, Fla. He was 82.

• Rahmanian an Antioch College academic leader

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 31, 2011

  Longtime Antioch College faculty member and former Nonstop leader Hassan Rahmanian has been named the revived college’s new dean for curriculum, assessment, planning and interdisciplinary learning.

• Bill Hooper

  By Matt Minde

  William (Bill) Hooper, well-known contractor, former Antioch and Miami Township trustee and local activist, died March 25 at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia. He was 91 years old.

• Expressing the inexpressable through dance

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Movement can convey more emotion than words. Just watch dancer and choreographer Tricia Gelmini, whose piece at this weekend’s community dance concert will blend sorrow and joy in an expression of loss.

• Village offers support

  By Diane Chiddister

  At the meeting, Village leaders pledged their support to do what they can to ensure that YSI continues to stay in Yellow Springs.

• Nonstop examines Progressive arts in small towns

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Does being an arts town mean just producing art, or also encouraging the questioning of and critical thinking about the dominant culture that artists tend to provide?