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• Yellow Springs prepares for April 8 eclipse

  By Reilly DixonMarch 12, 2024

  

  On Monday, April 8, Yellow Springs will have a front row view of a once-in-a-lifetime event of astronomical proportions: a total solar eclipse.

• News from the Past: February 2024

  By Guest ContributorMarch 11, 2024

  

  Contributing writer Don Hollister dove into the YS News archives to uncover past articles and more in his most recent installment of his News from the Past column.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Poetry in motion

  By Guest ContributorMarch 1, 2024

  

  “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Burst pipes and a new sediment filter set me back $600. I hope I can maintain the house above freezing through February and early March, but we will have to see.”

• Glen Helen meets $4.25 million campaign goal

  By YS News StaffFebruary 29, 2024

  

  The Glen Helen Association has announced the completion of its $4.25 million campaign, launched in June 2020, to purchase Glen Helen Nature Preserve from Antioch College, reopen the preserve to the public and more.

• News from the Past | Villagers save Whitehall Farm

  By YS News StaffFebruary 26, 2024

  

  As the result of communitywide activism and campaigning, villagers raised $1.2 million to save the 940-acre Whitehall Farm from development.

• Annual sugar shack tour planned

  By YS News StaffFebruary 24, 2024

  

  Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, will host its annual sugar shack tour Sunday, Feb. 25, 2–4 p.m., at Flying Mouse Farms, 100 E. Fairfield Pike.

• Down to Earth | Bobcats and coyotes and foxes: Oh, yes!

  By Guest ContributorFebruary 23, 2024

  

  “Their presence signals that the environment is healthy enough to support these creatures, which they in turn help to maintain through their regulation of prey populations.”

• Local, state deer population mounts

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 20, 2024

  

  Yellow Springs resident and professor of biological sciences at Wright State University Don Cipollini told the News last week that there are currently around 800,000 deer in the state.

• ODNR to lead annual winter hike

  By YS News StaffFebruary 9, 2024

  

  Naturalists with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will lead the annual six-mile winter hike through John Bryan State Park and Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve on Saturday, Feb. 10.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Hunkering down in the Hall

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “I will head out to the Hall and get a fire going, then will travel back and forth to keep an eye on both Karen and the fire.”