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• Mary Campbell

  By YS News StaffApril 3, 2008

  Mary Campbell of Yellow Springs died Wednesday, March 26 at Hospice of Dayton. She was 101. She was born Feb. 5, 1907, in Hazard, Ky, the daughter of the late Austin and Sallie (Fugate) Godsey.

• Lawrence Berry

  By YS News Staff

  Lawrence W. “Larry” Berry of Springfield died Monday, March 24, in his residence. He was 73. He was born March 5, 1935, in Springfield, the son of Howard Paul and Gertrude (Drennen) Berry.

• Revenue stream error means more monies in greenbelt fund

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 27, 2008

  At their March 17 meeting, members of the Yellow Springs Village Council learned that, due to a past communication error, the Village greenbelt fund should have about $100,000 more than the $87,000 it currently contains.

• School board moves closer to open enrollment increase

  By Virgil Hervey

  At its March 13 meeting the school board moved one step closer to increasing open enrollment in local schools when it gave the go ahead to Superintendent Norm Glismann to begin advertising for two new full-time elementary school teachers for grades one and two, and a half-time kindergarten, teacher.

• Harvard honors Jacobs

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  If you ask local attorney Ellis Jacobs if he usually wins his cases, you might find him, uncharacteristically, at a loss for words. After a pensive few moments in a recent interview, he came up with a response he deemed acceptable.

• A corner beacon for peace

  By Virgil Hervey

  

  On Wednesday, May 19, the war in Iraq marked its fifth year, and in the past week this country hit the milestone of having the 4,000th service member lose his life. The war has surpassed the American involvement in World War II by two years.

• Edna L. Burba

  By YS News Staff

  Edna L. Burba died at home Friday, March 7. She was 82. She was born March 11, 1925 in Pitchin, and was preceded in death by her husband, William F. Burba, a son, William E. Burba, two sisters and a brother.

• Thelma Duffee

  By YS News Staff

  Thelma Margurite (Long) Duffee, recently residing at Oakwood Village in Springfield, died on Feb. 20, at Mercy Medical Center. She was 84. She was born in Detroit, Mich., on Jan. 21, 1924, daughter of Harry Harrison and Elizabeth Shaw (Collins) Long…

• Non-stop Antioch support

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 20, 2008

  

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• Neat knots and knick-knacks: the Knit Knot Tree finds fame

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  You can call it a tree in a sweater, a community crazy quilt, or one more quirky idea from Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu. Whatever you call it, the knitted art project on the pear tree outside the Emporium seems to have taken the world by storm.