Yellow Springs News

Green funerals are gaining popularity nationwide and while currently no local cemeteries are performing the trendy burials residents do have options.

St. PARIS - After discussions with 17 candidates for superintendent, Graham School Board members have narrowed the list of potential candidates to four.

New Madison and Yellow Springs delayed their Saturday, July 4 fireworks shows due to rain and will hold them Sunday, July 5. Sunday's weather will cooperate, said Charlie Woodrum, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

Many arrive; few are chosen. See the cream of the artists' crop at Rosewood Gallery for the 15th annual "The View," a popular Ohio landscape competition.

I received an e-mail from the Greene County Public Library with the unwelcome news about proposed state budget cuts for Ohio's public libraries.

An alumni group from Antioch College in Ohio has a conditional agreement that will allow them to operate the financially strapped school and reopen in two years.

The Marysville Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a minor plane crash that happened around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at Grimes Air Field.

Several youth track and field athletes representing the Marion Track Club qualified for either the Ohio U.S.A. Championships or the Region 5 Championships during qualifiers last weekend.

So why is the Yellow Springs street fair different from other street fairs? Because it's Yellow Springs, of course.

A task force of the ONA board of trustees has begun a review of the membership dues structure, triggered by the current economic conditions.

A female Cincinnati State student is suing the school and one of its police officers, accusing the officer of making her lift her shirt to get out of a bogus ticket and the school of not doing a proper background search when it hired him.

Police were called to Summit Street and East 17th Avenue early Saturday morning on reports of a man who was bleeding and standing on his head.

We like a lot of things, and each week we use this space to highlight them. Still, there's almost nothing that we like better than something cool that's also free, and we know we're not alone.

House of Ravenwood 100 Corry St. 767-2819 Performances will take place on the stage at the Music Festival & Beer Garden at the Bryan Center, 100 Dayton Street.

The Center for Photographic Studies made a big splash in its short time in Louisville.

What are you going to do? Will you just watch the homeless man pass by while he is asking for spare change or will you help? Beside the Point A PRAGMATIC JUDGE who demonstrates "empathy" has been nominated by President Obama to the Supreme Court.

EDITORS NOTE: We asked ''Book Nook'' coliumnist Vick Mikunas to give us his short list of the Miami Valley's best authors.

Live music and the first harvests of summer will be among the offerings at the Farmer's Market, which kicks off this Saturday, May 30.

A new store offering handmade items is coming to downtown Yellow Springs. Urban Handmade , a retail store selling items such as jewelry, clothing and handbags, is scheduled to open June 1. DJ Galvin and her partners Connie Galvin and Liz Stutzman signed a lease for a 750-square-foot space to open their unique store.

This Labor Day, HBO will air a local film that looks at the closing days of General Motors Corp.'s last wholly owned local plant.