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• Yellow Springs school community upbraids school board for poor management

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 3, 2013

  

  At the vociferous urging of the local community, the Yellow Springs school board voted in a special meeting today to approve raises for its five administrators.

• Village Zoning Appeals Board— Distillery, preschool get variances

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 1, 2013

  S & G Artisan Distillery is closer to being approved for an increased tasting room at its production facility at MillWorks; the Village approved three variances allowing the Children’s Montessori Cooperative to operate a small preschool at 107 Tower Court.

• Teacher contracts in sight

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 25, 2013

  On Tuesday this week the Yellow Springs school board and the local district’s teacher’s union met with a federal mediator to draft a tentative agreement for a contract for the district’s 51 teaching staff members.

• High school moves to block schedule

  By Lauren HeatonJune 27, 2013

  When McKinney Middle and Yellow Springs High School start up again in the fall, students will be piloting a new hybrid block schedule for their classes.

• 2013 Mills Lawn School Sixth Grade Clap-out

  By Matt MindeJune 4, 2013

  

  For the younger residents of the school, it’s just the end of another grade. For the oldest, it’s the end of a world they’ve known since kindergarten.

• Congrats Class of 2013!

  By Suzanne SzempruchMay 31, 2013

  

  Congratulations Yellow Springs High School class of 2013!

• Basketball coach Brad Newsome retires— Winning games, molding men

  By Megan BachmanMay 30, 2013

  Some basketball coaches are just coaches, their influence confined to the court. Brad Newsome was the other kind. In his 16 years coaching Yellow Springs High School boys basketball, Newsome not only crafted athletes, he molded men.

• PE teacher Sarah Lowe to retire— Caring for the whole person

  By Megan Bachman

  For all teachers, developing a good relationship with students is key. But it’s especially important when it comes to teaching the touchy and highly personal topics that health teacher Sarah Lowe has covered in her 35-year career.

• Guest learned by teaching

  By Megan BachmanMay 23, 2013

  

  While the district will begin so-called project-based learning (PBL) next school year, Ellen Guest has been exploring similar methods for decades, squeezing in projects wherever she could. That’s one reason her retirement at the end of this school year is tinged with sadness.

• Schools forecast solvent budgets

  By Lauren Heaton

  At their meeting Thursday, May 9, the Yellow Springs school board approved the rosiest five-year forecast that they’ve seen in the past three years.