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Yellow Springs High School Section :: Page 4

  • YSHS students explore stereotypes in new art book

    By YS News StaffMay 17, 2017

    A sample page from "Flipping Stereotypes."

    YSHS art students recently collaborated to create “Flipping Stereotypes,” a book of drawings that seeks to ask: “What is the ‘average American?’”

  • YSHS production of ‘Oklahoma!’ has legs — about 90

    By Carol SimmonsApril 20, 2017

    Yellow Springs High School is presenting the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “Oklahoma!” this month, with performance dates April 21–23 and 28–30 at Antioch’s Foundry Theater. Directed by Ed Knapp, the musical is still relevant to contemporary teens, according to several of the Yellow Springs actors stepping into starring roles. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    The Yellow Springs High School musical production of ‘Oklahoma!’ has legs — about 90 of them

  • YSHS students launch Spirit Wear business

    By Diane ChiddisterDecember 15, 2016

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

  • 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.

  • Adoff, Lydy, Snider new McKinney, YSHS teachers

    By Carol SimmonsSeptember 1, 2016

    Eight new teachers and the new fundraiser for the Yellow Springs school district took part in orientation activities last week. Front row, from left, teachers Steve Bleything, Kevin Lydy, Robert Grote and Christopher Snider. Back row, from left, district fundraiser Dawn Boyer and teachers Shannon Wilson, Carrie Juergens, Lorrie Sparrow-Knapp and Jaimie Adoff. Yellow Springs students return to school this Friday, Aug. 19. The three new Yellow Springs High School teachers will be profiled in the August 25 issue of the News. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    As the first week of the new academic year concludes, we present the final three new teachers, who will teach at Yellow Springs High School or McKinney Middle School.

  • Into the future

    By YS News StaffJune 9, 2016

    The Yellow Springs High School Class of 2016 was honored at commencement ceremonies Thursday, May 26. (Photos by Aaron Zaremsky)

    The Yellow Springs High School Class of 2016 was honored at commencement ceremonies May 26, at the high school gym.

  • YSHS Spanish teacher says, ‘adiós’

    By Carol Simmons

    Yellow Springs High School Spanish teacher Kathy Burkland is retiring this year, after 18 years at the school. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    If she could, Kathryn Burkland would do without much of the public attention that has come with retiring this spring after 18 years of teaching Spanish at Yellow Springs High School.

  • 2016 Seniors speak in special News section

    By YS News StaffMay 26, 2016

    Many years of hard work is coming to a close tonight at 7 p.m. at the high school. Just enough time to get their diplomas and celebrate with family and friends before they hit the ground running on to their next new adventure in life!

  • YSHS 2016 valedictorian, salutatorian—Well-rounded scholars, athletes

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 19, 2016

    2016 YSHS salutatorian Henry Potts-Rubin, left, and valedictorian Gabriel Day sat in front of posters of their favorite subject, math. The two have a broad range of interests, spanning scholarship, sports and art, and both express an immense love of learning for the sake of learning. School counselor Dave Smith said the two are representative of a remarkable senior class, and one that is made up of “hardworking and lovely people.” (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    Yellow Springs High School counselor Dave Smith said that this year’s senior class is a remarkable one.

  • School threat rumor unsubstantiated

    By Audrey HackettApril 18, 2016

    A rumor about a threat to McKinney Middle/Yellow Springs High School was determined last week to be unsubstantiated, according to school officials.