Features

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  Emergent Verse | Young poet crafts mature verse

  
  
  

  Sometimes imagery, structure, rhythm, language and theme come together in a perfectly delightful combination, making a poem seem not so much composed as received.

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  My Name Is Iden | Everyone is a winner (or else)

  
  
  

  “There will always be outstanding players, leaders in every field, and they are vital, but they are not so worthy of praise that we should devalue the contributions of the other team members.”

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  Perry League’s noteworthy legacy

  
  
  

  Three years after Donald Perry’s death in 1967, the baseball league he founded was renamed Perry League in his honor. His legacy has been going strong for more than half a century.

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  Planning and Zoning Administrator Swinger signs off

  
  
  

  Eight years and innumerable planning and zoning projects later, Swinger said her time has come to step down as a public servant. She is retiring later this month.

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  Building Community | Baseball fields renamed after Davenport sisters

  
  
  

  Jackie, who died in March 2023 and Yvonne, who died in February 2021, were integral in creating a space for women in Yellow Springs’ recreational baseball league and were fierce advocates for athletic programs throughout the village.

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  Review | To interiority and beyond in ‘Asteroid City’

  
  
  

  “‘Asteroid City’ is a meta film that spends 104 minutes scaffolding layers upon layers of tweedy, postmodern artifice. And I, for one, loved it.”

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  Free lunch program feeds local youth

  
  
  

  The event marked the second Friday during which volunteers from the local Pleasant Grove Missionary Church set up on the porch of the library to hand out sandwiches, chips, fruit and water to kids at no cost.

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  Yellow Springs garden tour to benefit Children’s Center

  
  
  

  The 2023 Yellow Springs Bloom and Bounty Garden Tour will be Sunday, June 25, 1–5 p.m., rain or shine.

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  Yellow Springs to celebrate Pride

  
  
  

  The festivities kick off at 11 a.m. on the downtown block near Mills Lawn Elementary School and Jackson Lytle and Lewis with vendors, food trucks, community resources and more.

Obituaries

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  Daniel Pelzl
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  John Robert Frank Davis