From The Print Section :: Page 602

• Tales of hauntings in the village

  By Megan BachmanOctober 28, 2010

  Apparitions and ghostly music at Ye Olde Trail Tavern. Loaves of bread flying off the counter at the Sunrise Cafe. Disembodied voices in Antioch’s Main Building. Chairs traveling through the air in the Union Schoolhouse. A phantom walking around John Bryan State Park.

• Green space funds proposed

  By Diane Chiddister

  To preserve the Jacoby Greenbelt on the western edge of Yellow Springs, Village Council should have sufficient greenbelt funds to act quickly when landowners are ready to sell, according to Tecumseh Land Trust Executive Director Krista Magaw at Council’s Oct. 14 meeting.

• On Halloween, boo to you, too

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Have you heard about the ghost cows in the village, and the long-dead owner who some people still hear calling his herd? Or about the retired steamboat captain who built a home the shape of his ship, with a bell that allegedly can still be heard on foggy nights?

• Melvin J. E. Steinberg

  By YS News Staff

  Melvin J. E. Steinberg died Oct. 23. He was 75. Mel was born Feb. 4, 1935. He moved to Yellow Springs in 1964 with his wife, Gail, and became a tenured professor at Antioch College in the mathematics department.

• Malcolm ‘Mac’ Gillespie

  By YS News Staff

  The Reverend Dr. Malcolm E. “Mac” Gillespie was born Feb. 2, 1927. He married Irene Katherine Gillespie on June 18, 1949. Mac was ordained on July 10, 1955 at the First Congregational Church in Bethany, Conn.

• Joan G. Ranson

  By YS News Staff

  Joan G. Ranson, a former Yellow Springs resident, died Tuesday, Oct. 12 in Mason, Ohio, from chronic respiratory illness. Joan was born Sept. 22, 1945, in Chicago to Stephen W. and Claire Dobson Ranson.

• Bulldog Sports Round-up

  By YS News Staff

  

  With two thrilling overtime victories in the first rounds of tournament play, the boys varsity soccer team advanced to the division three district championship game for the fourth year in a row.

• Mark Roosevelt named new president of Antioch College

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 21, 2010

  

  Mark Roosevelt, great-grandson of Teddy, former Massachusetts politician and current superintendent of the Pittsburgh schools, will be the new leader of the revived Antioch College. “I am honored to become the next president of Antioch College and inspired by its history…

• Energy Board recommends line-drying—A meditative, energy-saving habit

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Laura Ellison, who has been air drying her laundry since she was 22, doesn’t see her energy-saving act as a sacrifice. Stringing clothes on lines that zigzag her living room in front of a wood stove is a relaxing, almost spiritual experience.

• Village Council—Affordable housing project is a multi-stage process

  By Diane Chiddister

  Village Council’s process for a recently proposed small affordable housing project will involve several stages, according to Council President Judith Hempfling at Council’s Oct. 18 meeting. If Council approves entering into a Memorandum of Agreement, or MOA, with Home, Inc….