Village Schools Section :: Page 80

• School proposes budget cuts

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 17, 2011

  Last week the Yellow Springs school district released the cuts to the 2011–12 budget that the school board will consider at its meeting tonight, Thursday, March 10, at 7 p.m.

• McKinney Chili Cook-off raised money and the roof

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 15, 2011

  

  The 17th annual McKinney Chili Cook-off drew about 150 tasters and 24 chefs who entered their recipes in the contest held at Yellow Springs High School on Saturday, March 12.

• Yellow Springs students hold walkout in protest of Ohio Senate bill

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 12, 2011

  

  Local students left school Friday in a statement of protest against the state senate’s recent approval of Senate Bill 5, which would curb the rights of Ohio’s public employees, including teachers.

• India by way of ‘Jungle Book’

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 10, 2011

  

  As Mills Lawn students rehearse Disney’s Jungle Book for the all-school musical this year, they have begun to investigate not just the animated India, but the real life India as well.

• March 10, 2011 Bulldog Sports Round-up

  By Matt Minde

  

  Boys basketball falls short in tourney In the first round of the sectional tournament on Tuesday, March 1, the Yellow Springs boys varsity basketball team faced a heartbreaking loss.

• Roosevelt speaks on crisis in public education

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 8, 2011

  

  Last Saturday Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt, the former superintendent of Pittsburgh schools, spoke on the American educational crisis at an event cosponsored by the Antioch College Morgan Fellows and the Yellow Springs public schools.

• VIDEO: Mills Lawn presents Bollywood Jungle Book

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 4, 2011

  

  The Mills Lawn all-school musical Bollywood Jungle Book premieres Saturday, March 5, at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday, at 2 p.m. Both shows take place at the Paul Robeson Performing Arts Center at Central State University.

• Chick, Malone to swim at state finals

  By Megan BachmanMarch 3, 2011

  

  Last Saturday’s district tournament performances showed that juniors Erika Chick and Elizabeth Malone are getting even faster in victorious swims.

• Four local teachers to retire

  By Lauren Heaton

  Four teachers with long and distinguished tenure in the Yellow Springs schools gave notice of their resignations at the end of the current school year.

• Young minds, bodies take to yoga in the schools

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  A group of 19 students sits cross-legged on purple mats in Sarah Lowe’s classroom at McKinney Middle School; they’ll be spending the next 50 minutes practicing yoga.