May
18
2025

Village Schools Section :: Page 40

  • Words to leave by

    By YS News StaffJune 7, 2018

    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

    By YS News StaffJune 4, 2018

    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

    By Robert HasekMay 31, 2018

    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.

  • All downhill

    By Susan Gartner

    Students of Ms. Eastman’s science class and Mr. Collins’ math class designed and rendered variations on a standard soapbox racer to come up with the fastest, most effective shape. Shown above in the driver’s seat is Sam Anderson; standing is teammate Temple Siemer, who cheered him on. The winning racer was designed and built by Peter Skidmore, Ashley Abnadell and Rosemary Burmester. (Photo by Susan Gartner)

    McKinney Middle School eighth-graders navigated handmade soapbox racers down Fairfield Pike last Thursday in the culmination of a PBL project.

  • Board reflects on levy loss

    By Carol SimmonsMay 24, 2018

    The defeat of the combined 4.7-mill property tax and 0.25 percent income tax levy in the May 8 election was a painful blow, Yellow Springs District Superintendent Mario Basora said during the regular school board meeting two days later, Thursday, May 10.

  • Heroic collaboration

    By Matt Minde

    Seventh-grader Olive Cooper elaborates on her superhero character, a project that required pulling together history, art, narrative and a bit of theatrical flair. It was just one of the many projects on display at McKinney Middle School and YSHS Project-Based Learning Exhibition Night on Wednesday, May 16. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Many projects were on display at McKinney Middle School and YSHS Project-Based Learning Exhibition Night on Wednesday, May 16.

  • Custody dispute puts Mills Lawn on lockdown

    By YS News StaffMay 18, 2018

    Police officers were on the scene at least 90 minutes before the incident appeared to end peacefully.

  • Pro-levy group spent $16,626

    By Diane ChiddisterMay 17, 2018

    The Committee for the Levy, a citizen group in support of the school facilities levy, spent $16,626.91 on the recent levy campaign, according to a finance report submitted to the state on April 26, the deadline for filing.

  • Krier leave continues

    By Carol Simmons

    Tim Krier, the principal of McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School, will remain on medical leave through the end of the school year.

  • ‘Black Panther’ inspires PBL at McKinney

    By Carol Simmons

    A Black Panther-themed Project-Based Learning unit took McKinney Middle School seventh-graders on a journey through African geography, history and culture; the American civil rights movement; and comic book history with the end result of creating their own African superhero or heroine. Those individual characters were then fully rendered by art students at the Columbus College of Art & Design. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    Joining a pantheon of costumed comic book predecessors fighting injustice and oppression around them, some new superheroines and heroes are the original creations of McKinney Middle School seventh-graders.

WP2Social Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com