Nov
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2024

Articles by Audrey Hackett :: Page 32

  • Train to be an ‘eco-sattva’

    The Dharma Center and Community Solutions are partnering to offer a course in Buddhist responses to climate change. The course begins Jan. 12.

  • 2016: Yellow Springs year in review — higher education

    The 50 members of Antioch College’s Class of 2016, the second graduating class of the revived college, celebrated their commencement last June. Newly minted graduates Jasmine Lindquist, Sylvia Newman and Ozrich Sable crossed “the Mound” in their own dramatic ways, carrying on an Antioch tradition. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    2016: Yellow Springs year in review — higher education

  • Celebrate Kwanzaa, Hanukkah this week

    Villagers will gather to celebrate Kwanzaa on Dec. 29 and Hanukkah on Dec. 30. Both celebrations are open to all interested in attending.

  • Cello Springs Festival 2017

    Cello Springs Festival is coming to the village, Jan. 4–14, with five scheduled public concerts, all free.

  • Christmas Eve services (+ bonus poem)

    Across the village’s various houses of worship, services are happening on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

  • ‘Blue Christmas’ honors complexities of season

    First Presbyterian Church is offering a “Blue Christmas” service this Friday, Dec. 23, to acknowledge the darker side of the season of light.

  • Antioch College cuts costs, jobs

    For the first time since reopening to students in 2011, Antioch College is reducing its budget, a move college leaders say is necessary to bring expenses in line with revenues that have grown more slowly than expected.

  • Fighting cancer, but not alone

    Kelley Fox was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare form of cancer, in August. The Yellow Springs native retired from the Village in 2014 after 30 years of service, most recently as superintendent of electric and water distribution. He also served as an MTFR firefighter for 17 years. Here, he’s pictured with his wife, Christina, outside Tom’s Market, one of Kelley’s favorite local people-watching spots. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    The outpouring of support for Kelly Fox and his family has been extraordinary, the Foxes said. People have offered to cook meals, take the family’s trash cans to the curb and pitch in to keep the family business, Fox Trot Services, up and running.

  • Antioch College enacts budget measures

    Antioch College President Tom Manley announced a series of cost-cutting measures on Friday, including pay cuts for executive and senior staff and a reduction in the total workforce, largely through attrition and reorganization.

  • In harmony

    From left, Lori Askeland, Amy Magnus and Jennifer Gilchrist, performing as Fire Horse Trio, harmonized to a packed house at WinterSong Encore at First Presbyterian last Saturday. Emceed by “Elder Felder” Jim Felder, who also thrilled audiences with several songs, the event featured more than 20 local musicians and singers, and included a stirring version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” sung by David Walker, with Brian Walker on keyboard and Jeanna GunderKline on backup vocals. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    WinterSong Encore played to full house at First Presbyterian last Saturday, Dec. 3.

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