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• Yellow Springs Schools seeks deeper diversity

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 28, 2018

  

  Achieving greater racial diversity among employees of Yellow Springs Schools — teachers, administrators and staff — has been a longtime goal of the local district. 

• Local plays selected for state conference

  By Megan BachmanNovember 24, 2018

  

  This fall’s YSHS/McKinney Bulldog Theater Festival productions of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Girls Like That” are headed to Ohio Thespian Association state conference in March.

• Circle of life, twice in one day

  By YS News StaffNovember 22, 2018

  

  This year’s tri-annual all-school musical — with more than 200 Mills Lawn School students participating —  was an adaptation of the popular Disney movie and later Tony-award winning musical “The Lion King.”

• Gallery from YSHS/McKinney Exhibition Night, Nov. 19

  By Megan BachmanNovember 21, 2018

  

  During their annual fall Exhibition Night on Monday, Nov. 19, students from Yellow Springs High School and McKinney Middle School demonstrated the project-based learning, or PBL, units undertaken so far this year. See more photos after the jump.

• 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.