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• New grants for Agraria —  Kids get the dirt on soil education

  By Megan BachmanNovember 15, 2018

  

  The architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller often used a metaphor to illustrate how small targeted actions can move massive systems. Fuller noted that the “trim tab,” a tiny mechanism of a ship’s rudder, can change the ship’s course with a minute movement. At the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture, soil is seen as that “trim tab.”

• Live from Mills Lawn, it’s Tuesday morning!

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “Good morning, amazing MLS students!” announced Mills Lawn sixth-grader Tiger Collins on a Tuesday last month. Flanked by fellow students Gabriella Kibblewhite and Stella Platt, she began broadcasting the daily news at Mills Lawn.

• MLS all-school musical — ‘Lion King KIDS’ springs to life

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 8, 2018

  

  Mills Lawn Elementary has transformed into the Pride Lands this fall as students prepare for a production of “Lion King KIDS,” a stage adaptation for youth of the popular, animated Disney movie and subsequent Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

• School board — Deficit spending predicted

  By Carol Simmons

  

  If the revenue and expenditures of Yellow Springs Schools continue this year as projected, the district will end the 2018–19 fiscal year with a $126,000 drop in its reserves, according to district Treasurer Dawn Bennett.

• “Girls Like That” opens Bulldog Theatre festival this weekend

  By YS News StaffNovember 2, 2018

  

  The Bulldog Theatre play “Girls Like That” will be staged at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Foundry Theatre on the Antioch College campus.

• YS school board — District seeks levy renewal

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 25, 2018

  

  With a renewal levy on the Nov. 6 ballot, Yellow Springs school  district leaders want local voters to know that the measure, if approved, will not increase their tax bill.

• Greene County Career Center — Facility levy eyes aerospace training

  By Megan BachmanOctober 11, 2018

  

  Looking to propel its aerospace training program, the Greene County Career Center is asking voters next month to support a property tax levy for a new facility.

• YS Schools — Superintendent outlines new district goals

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 4, 2018

  

  Improving school culture, deepening the rigor of project-based learning and collaborating with the community on a plan for district facilities were among the main areas of focus in a set of proposed goals presented to the Yellow Springs School Board during its most recent regular meeting.

• School board — Concerns over safety linger at high school

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 27, 2018

  

  Concerns over student safety and well-being, administrative accountability and district leadership were aired at an emotionally heightened Yellow Springs school board meeting last week. 

• YS school board accepts resignation— Krier on paid leave until spring

  By YS News StaffSeptember 20, 2018

  

  Last week the Yellow Springs school board accepted the resignation of Yellow Springs High School/McKinney Middle School Principal Tim Krier, effective next spring.