Village Life Section :: Page 212

• Marilyn’s story of wheel gratitude

  By Susan GartnerNovember 27, 2008

  

  “This will be a love letter to the village,” said Marilyn Van Eaton, her eyes filled with tears. The recent interview had to be stopped several times while she composed herself, describing the “long row to hoe” that has defined her life for so many years.

• Zagory gets a kick out of football

  By Virgil Hervey

  

  As the argument about the value of retaining a football program at Yellow Springs High School raged on in the community forum pages of the News in recent weeks, one of the school’s graduates was steady as a rock, kicking field goals and extra points for the Stanford University football team.

• Travelers surf cultures, couches

  By Susan GartnerNovember 20, 2008

  

  “I’ve been traveling since I was a baby,” said Judith Wolert-Maldonado as she sipped her tea at The Emporium. “My mom and dad came to the U.S. from Argentina in the late ’60s. I was born in ’70 and by seven months old I was flying back to Argentina with my parents.

• Police charge YS resident with Timothy Harris murder

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 13, 2008

  After a lengthy investigation by the Yellow Springs Police Department, the Greene County Prosecutor last week charged Phillip K. Cordell with the 2004 murder of local resident Timothy Harris.

• YSHS ‘Midsummer’ mischief, mayhem with a ’50s flare

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  If Shakespeare had lived in the 1950s, how he would have dressed, where he would have lived and the way he would have set his stage is surely just what the Yellow Springs High School thespians have dreamed up for the fall production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

• This hot little town is Coolsville

  By YS News StaffOctober 30, 2008

  

  Is there anyone among us who does not think Yellow Springs is cool? Now Budget Travel magazine has confirmed this distinction in its September issue by naming the village one of the “10 Coolest Small Towns” in America.

• On Halloween, Gardner puts the ‘boo’ back into books

  By Susan Gartner

  

  “She may be hard of hearing but she listens to kids,” said Sue Hawkey of her friend and colleague, Lucille Gardner. “She really hears what kids have to say.” Hawkey taught fourth grade at Mills Lawn School from 2003 up until this past spring.

• School serves up wisdom, skills

  By YS News StaffOctober 16, 2008

  

  The Heart of Joy Folkschool, which has been quietly simmering on a back burner, is ready to be served. “It’s come from a lot of people,” said artist Carolion, one of the initial organizers of the school. “It’s been cooking and bubbling for months.”

• Fall Street Fair: festing in the fall

  By YS News StaffOctober 9, 2008

  This fall the Yellow Springs Street Fair will be held downtown on Saturday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., with the Music Festival and Beer Garden, at the Bryan Community Center, running from noon to 7 p.m.

• Chamber representatives visit Texas to court BRAC workers

  By Virgil HerveyOctober 2, 2008

  

  When Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Karen Wintrow learned that the Dayton Development Coalition, or DDC, was considering a trip to San Antonio, Texas, to try to convince residents whose jobs were being moved to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to move to the region, she decided to get aggressive.