Village Life Section :: Page 38

• COVID-19 Update — August 5, 2021

  By YS News StaffAugust 19, 2021

  

  COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the state and county due to the highly contagious Delta variant. Ohio’s COVID-19 per capita case incidence rate rose to 77.4 cases per 100,000 for the two weeks ending July 29, up from 48.5 for the two weeks prior.

• Tin Can Economy — A space in the school for the swifts

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  Walk over to the Union School House on a clear late summer evening and you’ll see them. Swooping and darting through the dusk, conducting aerial dramas against the backdrop of a setting sun: chimney swifts. Hundreds of them.

• Taekwondo expert to teach self-defense class

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 18, 2021

  

  Master Christina Bayley, owner of Total Taekwondo Fitness, is hosting a self-defense class in Yellow Springs on Aug. 21 for ages 13 and up. Students will learn defense tactics and the best time to use them.

• Village PO clerk documents living with ‘long COVID’

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 17, 2021

  

  Most Americans are familiar with the most common symptoms of the illness caused by the coronavirus: fever, shortness of breath, sore throat, persistent cough, and loss of taste and/or smell. But what about when the symptoms of COVID linger, unfurling beyond two to six weeks into long months? What happens when those symptoms shift and evolve?

• Perry League’s ‘Busy, busy, busy’ field

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 8, 2021

  

  “And that’s our rain-soaked, muddy July 16 Perry League, Yellow Springs’ T-ball program for all kids 2–9 years of age, regardless of their race, color, creed, sexual orientation, ethnicity, spiritual inclination or practice, ability or disability.”

• The Dharma of the Springs

  By Aaron ZaremskyAugust 6, 2021

  

  To find the Middle Path and follow the Dharma of Siddharta Gautama, one need not venture far here in the Springs.

• 365 Project — Exploring Black ancestry at Glen Forest Cemetery

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 5, 2021

  

  On Saturday, July 24, people slowly trickled into Glen Forest cemetery, lingering near the cannon commemorating the service of veterans during the Civil War, including Black soldiers who are buried in the cemetery.

• Chamber of Commerce faces backlash over director’s posts

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 4, 2021

  

  Just 13 days after being hired, Elizabeth Ford is no longer the executive director of the Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce.

• Mud-soaked fun at Perry League

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 1, 2021

  

  “And that’s our rain-soaked, muddy July 16 Perry League, Yellow Springs’ T-ball program for all kids 2–9 years of age, regardless of their race, color, creed, sexual orientation, ethnicity, spiritual inclination or practice, ability or disability.”

• COVID-19 update

  By Megan BachmanJuly 29, 2021

  

  COVID-19 update for the week of July 26, 2021