Village Life Section :: Page 15

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Welcome to orientation

  By Guest ContributorApril 2, 2023

  

  “How do I heat the house, maintain stability in the Yellow Springs house and teach four classes in the spring? It’s not all me of course. It’s us.”

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | How it all began

  By Guest ContributorMarch 27, 2023

  

  “When we bought this place, we bought more than 1.8 acres of woodland and vegetable beds — we discovered a place that had been loved. Really, really loved. You cannot ignore that. It resonates. It thrums.”

• Donate to relocation fund for East Palestine family

  By YS News StaffMarch 23, 2023

  

  Following a Feb. 3 freight train derailment that was carrying hazardous materials, and a resulting chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, village resident Jenny Johnson established a fundraiser to help relocate a family who lived a quarter mile away from the wreckage.

• Bread and Roses

  By YS News Staff

  

  Occurring each year on March 8, International Women’s Day is a global celebration of women, underscoring women’s rights and calling attention to issues affecting women all over the world, including equality and reproductive rights.

• Yellow Springs nonprofit Agraria announces furloughs, hiatus

  By YS News StaffFebruary 23, 2023

  Yellow Springs nonprofit and educational farm Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice has announced a hiatus of its operations and programs effective Thursday, Feb. 16., and all employees — about 30 — have been put on a three-month furlough.

• My Name Is Iden | How to say I love you

  By Iden CrockettFebruary 17, 2023

  

  “Love is the center point from which we chart all other human emotion. We owe it to each other, and to ourselves, to recapture and appreciate anew the great gift it is to be able to give and receive love.”

• Building Community | Sharing a lifetime of soaring

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  During a recent interview with the News, village residents and co-founders of The Jael Group, or TJG, Steven and Jalyn Roe, often mentioned a spiritual concept related to “the way”: an opening, path, direction, even a process that at times means finding “a way out of no way.”

• Little Peace Conferences envision post-war peace

  By Guest ContributorFebruary 15, 2023

  

  At a time of war, a small Ohio village and the college within it also thought of peace. These thoughts focused on how things should be once the Second World War ended and to be ready for it when it was over.

• Unsolicited Opinions | ‘The fierce urgency of now’

  By Jessica ThomasFebruary 13, 2023

  

  “How quickly can we reimagine what accountability looks like? How many more hashtags do we need before a true reckoning happens?”

• A tale of two pilgrims

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 6, 2023

  

  For longtime Yellow Springs residents Diana Glawe and Emily Foubert, the famed Camino de Santiago — Europe’s longest and most storied pilgrimage route — offered lessons in love, loss and letting go.