Educational & Cultural Section :: Page 6

• DeWines long committed to Haiti

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 28, 2010

  Before the earthquake, Haiti was a country that struggled to support human life. Haiti was already the poorest country in the Americas by most standards; 80 percent of the people lived in poverty and many of those were malnourished or infected with AIDS or other diseases. And in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, about 400,000 people lived in the squalor of a lowland trash dump besieged with standing water, through which rag-clad children would dig for their daily sustenance.

• Unstoppable Nonstop

  By YS News Staff

  Copies of this and other photographs may be purchased from the News; please contact us via e-mail at ysnews@ysnews.com, or by phone, between 9:30 a.m. and 5: 30 p.m., Mon.–Fri.

• Walking for the dream

  By YS News StaffJanuary 21, 2010

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• Nonstop creatively evolves, again

  By Diane Chiddister

  In autumn of 2008 a group of former Antioch College faculty, staff and students launched Nonstop Antioch, a radical educational experiment aimed at preserving the traditions and values of the college even after the campus was closed. The effort, supported by the college alumni board, offered classes and workshops to both traditional and non-traditional students in village churches, homes and cafés.

• Bulldog Sports Round-up

  By YS News StaffJanuary 14, 2010

  The new year for the YSHS girls basketball team started out with a bit of a dud against Mechanicsburg, who came to town on Monday, Jan. 4, and left with a 56–51 victory. But Yellow Springs came back to crush Belmont 63–32 on Saturday, Jan. 9, to go ahead 4–3 for the season.

• Snow — silent and not so silent

  By YS News Staff

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• Church harbors a market in winter

  By Stephanie BeasleyJanuary 7, 2010

  While church basements tend to be the place for after-service coffee hours and socials, the basement of the Yellow Springs United Methodist Church will soon veer off the traditional path and host vegetables. Beginning this Saturday, Jan. 9, from 9 a.m. to noon, the church will sponsor its first winter farmers market.

• Predictions abound for YS in 2010

  By Web Admin

  A sushi bar. A roller-skating rink, a wind farm and a better set of school leaders than this town has yet to imagine. Short Street will become a park. Vernay will be fenced for dog walkers. No matter what reveals itself in 2010, it will be a better year than last, according to many villagers […]

• Benning served village in work, life

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 10, 2009

  

  For each of the several hundred people who attended her memorial service at Bryan Community Center on Saturday, Dec. 5, Deborah Benning meant something unique. But in all her roles as mother, step-mother, partner, friend, Village Council clerk and long-time village resident, she was consistently seen as a supportive leader and a touchstone others could depend on. She served in that way for family and friends as well as for the Village of Yellow Springs, and her death on Nov. 24 is as much a part of local history as the legacy of her family as an early part of the village’s African American community.

• Malagasy student visits YS

  By Stephanie BeasleyDecember 3, 2009

  Jalana Lazar’s stint with the Peace Corps in Madagascar began inauspiciously. On her first day in the country, she was driven to the village of Nosiarina and dropped off with little fanfare. Remembering her initial dismay, she said, “They left me on the side of the road with a bike and my steel trunk.” She figured out the logistics of her new life on her own.