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2024

Articles by Audrey Hackett :: Page 39

  • Solid rhythm

    Shown above, from left, are local musician John Booth, his son Malik and Brian Maughan around “Play It,” a bronze casting by Maugham designed to portray the Booth family drummers and evoke other dynamic elements of life in Yellow Springs. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Three bronze pieces created at the 2013 Bronze Sculpture Symposium by local sculptor Brian Maughan were unveiled during last Friday’s Art Stroll.

  • Next steps for fast, local Internet in village

    Members of local citizen group Springs-Net gathered earlier this year to discuss a proposal for a municipal fiber optic network in Yellow Springs. From left to right, Dan Carrigan, Scott Fife, Matt Cole, Tim Barhorst, Thor Sage and Jordan Gray. Not pictured: Nick Gaskins, Ellis Jacobs, Doug McKinley and Denny Powell. (Submitted photo)

    A municipal fiber optic network is feasible in Yellow Springs, according to members of Springs-Net, a citizen group that has been studying the issue for the past 18 months.

  • Back to the wild — Raptor Center owl release

    Glen Helen Raptor Center will be releasing young screech owls back to the wild at the School Forest Meadow this Thursday, June 23, from 8 to 9 p.m.

  • Once more unto the streets…

    An unidentified daredevil takes a long walk during a street fair in 1988. The perspective would be welcome these days, as the event has grown significantly. (Photo by Irwin Inman, via Antiochiana)

    Love it or dread it, Street Fair is a Yellow Springs tradition. But newcomers to the village anticipating this Saturday’s arts, crafts, music, food and beer extravaganza might not realize just how humble and homegrown the tradition is.

  • From ‘the last frontier’ to Ohio

    The Oberg family, from left, Eric, Cole, Kelley and Sage (plus 17-year-old dog, Larsen), moved to Yellow Springs in 2014 seeking an open and tolerant community. Intrepid adventurers, Eric, born and raised in Alaska, and Kelley, who lived there for many years, are “homesteading” on a small scale at their Fair Acres residence, including by planting the gardens pictured here. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Before moving to Yellow Springs, Eric and Kelley Oberg had never owned a home with a doorbell.

  • BLOG— Remembering Long Pond

    Long Pond was a lake, despite its name. It hung like a particularly wet piece of laundry on the line that was Moose River. The river fed the lake, and the lake, nine miles later, fed the river. Long Pond was a pause in the river’s flow — the river putting up its feet and taking a break.

  • Goslings at Antioch Midwest

    Drivers, take care! A goose and her goslings have been observed crossing the Dayton–Yellow Springs Road near Antioch Midwest.

  • New programs at the Little Art— Fancy a weekday matinee?

    From left: Facilities Manager Brian Housh and owner Jenny Cowperthwaite pose in the lobby of the Little Art Theatre. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    It’s a weekday afternoon, you have a few free hours, you want to see a movie. Wish the Little Art were open? Now it is.

  • Bee-friendly land management— Antioch College bans ‘neonics’

    The lawn in front of Antioch Hall, known as the horseshoe, is covered with clover this time of year. In years past, that meant bees — hundreds of them — buzzing underfoot. But now the clover field is silent.

  • BLOG— Bike path poet

    The best poem I’ll ever write is the one I’ll never write. It’s the one I’ll write only in my head, under the influence of bicycling, which apparently is for me as potent as the more illicit highs other writers have pursued for inspiration.

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