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Village Schools Section :: Page 47

  • Yellow Springs Schools opt for locked doors

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 22, 2016

    At its December meeting, the school board agreed to go forward with plans to add a buzzer and camera to the front doors of Mills Lawn Elementary, a decision spurred by recent events in that school.

  • YSHS students launch Spirit Wear business

    By Diane ChiddisterDecember 15, 2016

    A YSHS math class has launched a small apparel business, YS Spirit Wear.

  • Sweet little houses

    By Diane Chiddister

    At the 2016 Gingerbread Festival, Ru Robertson stood guard beside the house she created, in the foreground, complete with Snoopy on top, which took second prize in the competition. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    The magic of sugar and the holiday season converged last Saturday at the Second Annual ­Gingerbread Festival at Mills Lawn gym, sponsored by the Mills Lawn PTO.

  • Yellow Springs Schools are on two hour delay Thursday, Dec. 15

    By Matt MindeDecember 14, 2016

    Yellow Springs Schools are on two hour delay Wednesday, February 10.

  • Dec. 13 Athletic Events, MLS concert canceled

    By Web AdminDecember 13, 2016

    Yellow Springs Schools have sent out an advisory that “all athletics games & practices are cancelled for today.

  • Yellow Springs School Board— Group to create mediation protocol for PBL

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 24, 2016

    The Yellow Springs High School’s Student Relations Board, a group of students and teachers, will be reconfiguring the project-based learning, or PBL, contracts signed by students in each class, with the intent of developing a mediation protocol for how the PBL teams deal with conflict.

  • Village Council— Improving school bikeway safety

    By Audrey HackettNovember 17, 2016

    Recent concerns about the safety of students traveling on West South College Street have prompted the Village to look into improving bikeways on that route.

  • All for one … heck of a YSHS play

    By Audrey HackettNovember 10, 2016

    From left, YSHS actors Jonah Trillana (Aramis), Windom Mesure (Athos), Allison Bothwell (Sabine), Grant Crawford (D’Artagnan) and Duard Headley (Porthos) at a recent rehearsal of “The Three Musketeers,” the high school’s fall play. Alexandre Dumas’s classic swashbuckling comedy, updated with a feminist twist, will be performed this weekend and next. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Fighting, honor, loyalty, love, camaraderie. More fighting. This fall’s Yellow Springs High School production of Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” is not for the faint of heart, but it’s equally full of comedic turns.

  • School’s out for district janitor

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Yellow Springs school district’s long-time custodian Jerry Upton is retiring after 30 years on the job. His tenure with the school has had him driving buses, doing groundskeeping work and working in long-gone buildings. He has learned in a number of different skills via a number of different positions, and still gets greeted warmly by students who have long ago graduated. (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    About halfway through the school year, the district will say goodbye to one of its senior-most employees, longtime custodian, groundskeeper and bus driver Jerry Upton.

  • Mills Lawn March Madness

    By Matt MindeNovember 3, 2016

    Critters just kept streaming out of the maw of Mills Lawn School. Bringing up the rear, from left, are Miette Murphy, Eloise Murphy, and Anah Smith watch as wizard Liliana Herzog gestures wildly with her wand, hopefully not transforming co-marcher Alayna Hamilton at her right. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Mills Lawn School’s annual Halloween Parade through downtown Monday brought out the beauty as well as the beast in everyone.

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