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• School levy wins

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 14, 2013

  

  Yellow Springs and Miami Township voters overwhelmingly supported their public school system on Nov. 5, agreeing to pass the district’s second levy in as many years.

• Merhemic, Scott, Conn on school board

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Incumbent school board member Aïda Merhemic took the day at the polls winning the top number of votes to return her to the board along with two new members, Evan Scott and Steven Conn. Merhemic won 1,027 votes, or 23.7 percent of the total, while Scott had 954 votes and Conn had 940, about 22 percent each.

• Mills Lawn School holds Veterans Day flag retirement ceremony

  By Matt MindeNovember 13, 2013

  

  This Veterans Day, students participated in a flag retirement ceremony, led by the Yellow Springs Girl Scout Troop No. 30349.

• YSHS stage lights up for second weekend of Almost, Maine

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 7, 2013

  

  YSHS’s fall play “Almost, Maine” continues this weekend at Mills Lawn auditorium.

• School board forum— Candidates address safety, governance

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  The appropriate role of school board members in regard to school administrators was a focus at both school board candidates’ forums this week and last, as villagers heard candidates speak about their reasons for seeking office, and answer questions.

• Mills Lawn School brings out Halloween spirits, and more…

  By Matt MindeNovember 1, 2013

  

  Although Beggars Night was rescheduled, Mills Lawn School’s annual Halloween Parade did take place, albeit in the slightly more accommodating confines of the school gymnasium.

• YSCAPE funds school change

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 24, 2013

  

  When in 2011 the local school district established its 10-year strategic roadmap for modernizing public education in Yellow Springs, leaders didn’t yet know how they would fund the change.

• Toot sweet: a fundraiser to replace aging recorders

  By Matt MindeOctober 10, 2013

  

  Mills Lawn School students will help offset the cost of replacing the recorders in the music room by performing for cash on the street in the MLS PTO Street Fair “Busking Booth.”

• Leading Yellow Springs Schools a delicate balance

  By Lauren Heaton

  Maintaining a leadership team in the Yellow Springs Schools that always agrees is seldom possible; the schools struggle at times to balance the shared authority granted by the state to both the local school board and the school administration.

• YSI Inc. immerses kids in water

  By Megan BachmanOctober 3, 2013

  

  On a recent field trip, the Mills Lawn Elementary School fifth and sixth graders spent a day at YSI Inc. (a Xylem brand), learning about local and global water issues, and bounced a giant model of earth to symbolize the need for everyone to chip in to save the planet.