Nov
02
2024

Articles by Carol Simmons :: Page 41

  • An artful jumble of surprises awaits

    A hand-crafted sake set is one of the many items on display — and for sale — at the annual Holiday Art Jumble, presented by the Yellow Springs Arts Council at the group’s gallery through Dec. 31. The Jumble serves as the Arts Council’s final show of the calendar year as well as its biggest fundraiser. (Submitted photo)

    Introduced in 2012, the Holiday Art Jumble serves as both the Arts Council’s final show of the calendar year and its largest fundraiser.

  • Atomic Fox moves to online, auction sales

    Terry Fox, auctioneer and owner of Atomic Fox, which specializes in selling mid-20th-century furniture and décor, has closed his Dayton Street retail store to focus on his growing business in the online market. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    The nearly empty storefront on Dayton Street doesn’t mean that Atomic Fox, the retro furniture and décor shop that has occupied the space for nearly three years, is going out of business. It does mean, however, that the business is transitioning.

  • Inspired by nature, and each other

    Ed Davis, poet, novelist and educator, will host the sixth annual Winter Solstice Poetry Reading on Friday, Dec. 8, at Glen Helen’s Vernet Ecological Center. Bomani Moyenda is one of 14 poets scheduled to read their original work as part of the Winter Solstice Poetry Reading, co-presented by Tecumseh Land Trust and Glen Helen Nature Preserve. (submitted photos)

    The Winter Solstice marks the astrological moment when humans experience the shortest period of daylight and the longest dark of night. But it also signals the end of deepening darkness, as light begins to lengthen incrementally each day until June.

  • 70 years of Christmas trees

    A Yellow Springs News photo from December 1973 shows resident Ethel Bender and her son, Michael, with the Christmas tree they selected at that year’s School Forest Festival. (Photo courtesy of Scott Sanders, Antiochiana)

    Now a Yellow Springs holiday tradition, and arguably the high school’s most popular extra-curricular activity, School Forest is celebrating its 70th annual outing this year.

  • Kingian nonviolence at CS King center

    Mila Cooper, director of the Coretta Scott King Center at Antioch College, co-led a Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation training last weekend at the center. The two-day training was for students, staff and community members. (News Archive photo by Lauren Heaton)

    The first of six principles distilled from the writings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. establishes the foundational precepts of King’s philosophy of nonviolence.

  • 2017 #YSGivingTuesday donations on track to top last year

    #YSGivingTuesday committee members, from left, Kathryn Hitchcock, Jeannamarie Cox, Dawn Boyer and Ara Beal, are preparing for the village’s second year participating in the charitable giving campaign that falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. While the initiative is focused on online giving, the local effort also will accept in-person donations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Yellow Springs Senior Center. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    The numbers are still coming in, but with 19 of 24 participating local nonprofit groups reporting their 2017 #YSGivingTuesday results, the money raised during the 24-hour charitable event Nov. 28 is on track to top last year’s $75,000 mark.

  • Robots inspire a passion for STEM

    Mills Lawn fourth-graders Malayna Buster, left, and Hannah Parker adjust a robot named Bratwurst, which they helped program as part of their FIRST Lego League after-school team. The girls are members of one of two local 10-member teams that will be competing in a regional tournament Sunday, Dec. 10, being hosted by YS High School junior Alex Ronnebaum at the high school. (photo by Carol Simmons)

    When high school junior Alex Ronnebaum came to Yellow Springs schools as an eighth-grader, she was already a veteran of the FIRST League robotics program.

  • A day for community giving

    #YSGivingTuesday committee members, from left, Kathryn Hitchcock, Jeannamarie Cox, Dawn Boyer and Ara Beal, are preparing for the village’s second year participating in the charitable giving campaign that falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. While the initiative is focused on online giving, the local effort also will accept in-person donations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Yellow Springs Senior Center. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    After collecting $75,000 in a single day last November, an effort to raise money for local nonprofit groups is returning to the village for a second year this holiday season.

  • A day for community giving

    After collecting $75,000 in a single day last November, an effort to raise money for local nonprofit groups is returning to the village for a second year this holiday season.

  • Community Solutions — Agraria vision takes root

    Locally based poet Ed Davis read some of his work during a community dinner in August to celebrate Community Solutions’ Agraria project. The dinner, featuring locally sourced foods, was held in the property’s 7,000-square-foot barn. (Submitted Photo)

    More than six months after the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions signed the necessary papers to purchase its new 128-acre property on the western edge of the village, a comprehensive vision for the land is solidifying.

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