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• Council approves initial step towards affordable housing

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 4, 2010

  At their Nov. 1 meeting, members of Village Council unanimously approved taking a step toward creating the first Village-sponsored affordable housing project in the past several decades. The project, proposed by Council President Judith Hempfling and Vice-President Lori Askeland…

• Ralph ‘Butch’ Heaton

  By YS News Staff

  

  Ralph Heaton Jr. died on Thursday, Oct. 28, at Greene Memorial Hospital. He was 88. Ralph was born April 25, 1922 in Xenia, the son of Nellie (Simison) and Ralph Heaton, who was a bricklayer.

• Meredith ‘Dal’ Dallas

  By YS News Staff

  Meredith Dallas, theater director, actor, teacher and psychologist died peacefully in the company of family at the Friends Care Center on Nov. 1 at 2 a.m. He was 93.

• Andy Benning

  By YS News Staff

  

  Andrew Spencer Benning died Friday, Oct. 29. He was 84. Andrew was born Jan. 10, 1926, to Chester William Benning and Helen Lucille Cassell Benning of Yellow Springs.

• Bulldog Sports Round-up

  By YS News Staff

  Sophomore Lois Miller’s eighth-place finish at the Southwest Ohio Regional Cross Country Championships last Saturday earned her a spot in the division III state final this weekend in Columbus. Miller becomes the third Lady Bulldog in school history to compete at the state championships and the first since 1995.

• Mandolins to play Garcia piece

  By Megan Bachman

  

  In the early 20th century, mandolin orchestras sprung up in Dayton and elsewhere, playing rags, marches, light classical and waltzes with the energetic ting of the uniquely American flatback mandolin. Today the mandolin craze is back, including in Yellow Springs, now home for the six-year-old Dayton Mandolin Orchestra.

• Sports Announcements

  By YS News Staff

  The Crickets basketball program for first–third grade students begins Friday, Nov. 5. Six sessions will be held in the Bryan Center gym, 6–7 p.m., ending Dec. 17. The sessions will focus on fundamentals and will consist of drills and informal scrimmage games.

• Corner-copia: saag paneer in winter, the homemade way

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  When Akhilesh and Pratibha Nigam arrive at the Indian Food Corner — located at Corner Cone on Dayton and Walnut Streets — in the morning, they start each dish from scratch. If they’re making saag paneer — which they undoubtedly are, since the spinach/cheese favorite is one of their five menu items…

• Dead again

  By Vanessa QueryOctober 28, 2010

  

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• School’s 5-year forecast in red

  By Lauren Heaton

  The current school district budget picture, as presented by district Treasurer Dawn Weller at the school board’s Oct. 14 meeting, shows that expenditures are increasing at a greater rate than revenues, and the local district will begin running a negative cash balance at the beginning of the 2013 school year.