Village Life Section :: Page 75

• Food truck reopens after fire

  By Audrey HackettApril 26, 2019

  

  Aahar India is open again, and owner Akhilesh Nigam couldn’t be happier.

• Council makes offer to VM candidate

  By Megan BachmanApril 25, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs may soon have a new Village manager.After four finalists for the position visited town last week, Village Council has made an offer to one of the candidates, the News confirmed this week.

• The social utopia of the ‘Mystic Knights’

  By Guest Contributor

  

  It was during the late 1970s at an idyllic riverfront property in Clifton that a group of Yellow Springers came to form a legendary, diverse social club.

• Antioch College’s Earth Week—All are invited to ‘wade in’

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A series of Earth Day-related events on the Antioch College campus next week  invites the entire community to “Wade In” on environmental justice, particularly in relationship to water.

• Clean-up week coming soon

  By YS News StaffApril 24, 2019

  

  The annual spring clean-up week will be held Monday–Friday, May 6–10. During that week, household items, large and small, placed at the curb with regular trash pick-up will be removed for free by Rumpke. This service is available to Village solid waste customers only.

• Joe Ayres: a fixer of people, things

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 18, 2019

  

  A visit to Ayres’ Polecat Road home shows that some of what Ayres rescues is stuff. Known as a man with many friends, he is also known as a fixer of anything, so of course he often fixes things for his friends.

• Co-op puts PVs within reach

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Gleaming solar panels hang on the steeply pitched roof of Eric Johnson’s South High Street home, and also top an all-electric tiny house in his backyard. Last year, Johnson’s solar panels met 90 percent of his household electricity use. And, most importantly to someone concerned about climate change, the 10-kilowatt array helped him produce less carbon dioxide.

• ‘A tear in the social fabric’— Beloved son, friend still missing

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Anyone who spends much time in downtown Yellow Springs knows Lonya Clark, called Leo by many of his friends. A once daily presence in the coffee shops and streets of town, the young man is known for greeting most everyone with a smile and friendly nod. But despite his growing up here, most people know only small pieces of who he is, how he spends his time and where he goes. And nobody seems to know where he’s been for close to three months now.

• Joseph Robinson at YSAC gallery— The village, seen through eyes of joy

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Joseph Robinson loved his family, his community and his town. All three come together in a new exhibit at the Yellow Springs Arts Council gallery, called “Through the Eyes of Joseph Robinson: Paintings and Poetry of Yellow Springs.” The exhibit opens with an evening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 19, and runs through May 12 during regular YSAC gallery hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.

• YSCCC now enrolls the ‘littles’

  By Audrey HackettApril 11, 2019

  

  Cuteness alert: there are new babies in town. Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, or YSCCC, now accepts infants aged six weeks to 17 months as part of its recently created infant program, which opened in November.