Youth Section :: Page 9

• Kid flicks, red carpet at Little Art

  By Susan GartnerFebruary 26, 2009

  

  Lora Boarman, Laura Carlson, Elaine Chappelle, Chasilee Crawford and Stacey Wirrig have a refreshing — and infectious — approach to the typical departmental meeting. For starters, their weekly meetings take place at the Emporium or Yellow Springs Arts Council Art Space.

• Villagers speak on drug dogs

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 5, 2009

  About 50 parents, high school students and community members came out into the cold on Thursday, Jan. 29, to attend a Yellow Springs Board of Education public meeting on the proposed use of drug-sniffing dogs at Yellow Springs High School.

• Plucky harpists learn some string theory at Antioch School

  By Susan GartnerJanuary 15, 2009

  

  The children sat on a rug in a semicircle around the visiting harpist in the art/science room at The Antioch School, each hugging her or his own child-sized harp, their faces pressed close to the strings.

• Youth, elders dialogue about drug dogs, trust

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 25, 2008

  According to several Yellow Springs youth, the schools and the village are not as supportive and inclusive of youth as they should be, and the youth need more of a voice in making the decisions that affect them.

• Original music, home grown musicians in FMC benefit

  By YS News Staff

  

  A benefit concert to raise money for Friends Music Camp scholarships will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at the Friends Care Extended Living Center dining room, 150 East Herman Street in Yellow Springs.

• Rwandans open up world for YS

  By Susan GartnerDecember 4, 2008

  

  It was an ordinary night in the village. Traven was showing Tony — both Yellow Springs High School students — how to make Rice Crispy treats. Another student, Kelly, was doing homework alongside her brothers and sisters.

• Zagory gets a kick out of football

  By Virgil HerveyNovember 27, 2008

  

  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.

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

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 13, 2008

  

  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.

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

  By Susan GartnerOctober 30, 2008

  

  “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.