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  • First day, second grade

    Mills Lawn second-graders lined up outside the school’s front door on a sunny Friday morning, Aug. 24. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    Second-graders line up in front of Mills Lawn School on the first day of school.

  • New efforts, faces at YS schools

    Yellow Springs Schools welcomes six newly hired teachers to the district this school year. From left: Amanda Kinney, first-grade; Joe Carr, Mills Lawn PBL foundations; Courtney O’Connor, middle school social studies; Alicia Horvath, middle school math; Naomi Hyatt, third- and fourth-grade intervention specialist; Emily Cormier, high school art. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    It may not be astronomically precise, but summer is definitively ending for many in Yellow Springs as the village’s public schools open their doors for the 2018–19 school year on Friday, Aug. 24.

  • YS school board appoints new member

    The Yellow Springs School Board has named TJ Turner to fill Sean Creighton’s vacated seat on the five-person board.

  • Interim principal, assistant principal approved

    Offering no comment about the action, the Yellow Springs School Board last week appointed Jack Hatert, assistant principal at Yellow Springs High and McKinney Middle schools, as interim principal of the combined campus for the 2018–19 school year.

  • School board— Facility visit prompts optimism

    The building structure of the Yellow Springs High School/McKinney Middle School facility appears to be in better condition than school district leaders feared, according to the initial feedback of two structural engineers who toured the school campus Wednesday, June 13.

  • Making the (next) grade

    McKinney Middle School eighth graders celebrated the completion of their middle schooling with a promotion ceremony Wednesday, May 30. (Photo by Eleanor Anderson)

    McKinney Middle School eighth graders celebrated the completion of their middle schooling with a promotion ceremony Wednesday, May 30.

  • Schools analyze levy defeat

    In the wake of the school facilities levy loss May 8, the Yellow Springs School Board met Thursday, May 24, to discuss what the schools’ contracted architect described as a “decisive” defeat, and consider next steps in addressing the needs of the district’s aging buildings. 

  • Words to leave by

    Yellow Springs High School senior Ayanna Madison was one of two seniors, the other being Peter Day, chosen to deliver a talk during last Thursday evening’s commencement ceremony. In the YSHS gym 72 seniors received their diplomas as parents, relatives, friends and community members looked on and celebrated the young people. (Photo by Matthew Collins)

    Photos from last Thursday’s commencement ceremony for Yellow Springs High School, by Matthew Collins.

  • 2018 special YSHS Senior supplement now available online

    The 2018 YSHS special Senior supplement is available in the May 31 edition of the News, as well as online.

    What are the Seniors saying this year? Do you know who said what?

  • Power play

    Pictured above during Mills Lawn School's 2018 Field Day, pulling from left, are Maggie Wright, Summer Andell, Peyton Jones, Olivia Hasek, Adeline Zinger, Claire Lewis and parent volunteer Beth Bayard. (Photo by Robert Hasek)

    Mills Lawn Elementary held the annual end-of-the-year Field Day on the last full day of school, Wed., May 30.

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