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  • Teachers aim for big ideas

    By Lauren HeatonSeptember 13, 2012

    Every six seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from hunger. Leaders hunger for power, scholars hunger for knowledge, and demonstrators hunger to make statements about change. And everyone, big and small, hungers for love. Hunger is a big word, and its many iterations are the theme of this year’s McKinney School and Yellow Springs High School experience.

  • New teachers at McKinney, YSHS

    By YS News Staff

    Brandon Lowry, Nancy Beers, Karleen Materne and Cameron McCoy

  • Welcome back to school!

    By YS News StaffAugust 22, 2012

    Riding off into the sunrise, on the way to school. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    By now it’s more than evident that school is back in session.

  • 2012-13 Yellow Springs School Guide

    By YS News Staff

    Extra copies of the Yellow Springs School Guide are still available at the News office.

    Far from being garden mulch, the Yellow Springs News School Guide contains useful information for the whole year.

  • Schools consider local food

    By Lauren HeatonJune 28, 2012

    A new Wellness Committee hopes to secure a grant to support a “farm to school” operation to get locally sourced fresh fruits and vegetables onto the trays of students at both the village’s elementary and secondary schools.

  • Antioch School 90th anniversary— A school that runs like a family

    By Lauren HeatonJune 14, 2012

    Students were ecstatic to be out on the golf course side of the the new Antioch School around when it was built in 1953. The school will celebrate its 90th anniversary with an open house reunion on Saturday, July 7, noon–4 p.m. at the school. (Photo courtesy of Antiochiana, Antioch College)

    Elsie Hevelin remembers clearly the tall front pillars and marble fireplaces in each room of Judge Mills house where she attended the Antioch School as a child.

  • From classrooms to coral reefs

    By Megan BachmanJune 7, 2012

    McKinney School seventh- and eighth-grade science teacher Terry Graham retires at the end of the school year to return to science field work and spend more time with family. Here Graham shows off a student project on the rainforest. During her 12 years at McKinney, Graham said she enjoyed encouraging student creativity and teamwork through projects. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Now entering a new phase of her life, Terry Graham, a former field biologist, retires at the end of the school year as science teacher to head back into the field.

  • Mike DeWine visits YSHS— Native son faces local heat

    By Megan Bachman

    Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told Yellow Springs High School and McKinney School students to be independent thinkers and sparred with them over the gay marriage issue at an assembly last week. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine returned last week to his alma mater, Yellow Springs High School, and shared with students his opinions on gay marriage, abortion and President Obama.

  • Top students’ nod to village

    By Lauren Heaton

    Erika Chick was named the valedictorian and Savita Bathija the salutatorian of their YSHS class of 2012. They will speak at graduation at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 31, at the high school. (Photo by Lauren Heaton)

    The pressures of being students and trying to make plans for the future have reared their Cerberean heads in the lives of Yellow Springs High School seniors Erika Chick and Savita Bathija.

  • Mills Lawn School traditional sixth-grade clap-out

    By Matt MindeJune 5, 2012

    The 2012 annual sixth-grade clap-out happened at the end of the day, June 1.

    The tradition of “clapping out” graduating sixth-graders involves them walking a friendly gauntlet through the school halls past clapping, hooting and cheering kids, on their way back to their MLS classrooms for the last time.

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