Village Life Section :: Page 225

• 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.

• For the Schwerners, life after YS, WYSO

  By Virgil HerveySeptember 25, 2008

  

  When he was a student at Antioch College, Steve Schwerner was sure to get co-ops that would bring him back to his hometown, New York City, so he could hang out in jazz clubs as much as possible.

• Wind wallops YS; villagers rally in aftermath

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 18, 2008

  

  Shortly after the lights came on in downtown Yellow Springs Tuesday noon, Mark DeLozier, sitting at the piano that had been dragged from inside the Emporium out to the sidewalk, launched into “On the Sunny Side of the Street.”

• Mitzi Manny, a heart lifted by music

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Mitzi Manny swipes her 15-pound accordion out of its tattered case as though it were a ragdoll and slips her arms through the straps like an old friend. She sways just slightly as the squeeze box sings out “When I Grow Too Old to Dream,” and the two look fit to be together.