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Articles About Glen Helen :: Page 2

  • Honoring Little Miami Trail bikeway boosters

    By Audrey HackettOctober 27, 2016

    Ed Dressler spoke to a small crowd at last Saturday’s 25th anniversary celebration of the opening of the local portion of the Little Miami Scenic Trail. Dressler and Marcia Sauer were honored at the event for their pivotal role in making the local bikeway a reality. Former Village Council member and trail proponent Connie Crockett organized the celebration. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Once controversial but now widely used, the local bike path turned 25 this fall. A small ceremony marking that milestone was held in front of the Train Station last Saturday

  • Forest friends

    By Matt MindeAugust 4, 2016

    Young musicians with the Friends Music Camp, or FMC, marched through town on Saturday, July 30, to promote the 33rd annual benefit concert for Glen Helen, held later that evening. FMC musicians played flutes, horns, violins, saxophones and plenty of percussion as they passed the Mills Park Hotel and continued to move their joyful noise up Xenia Avenue. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    What started out as a quick musical march up and down Xenia Avenue (top) ended up as a two-hour performance Saturday evening, July 30, to benefit Glen Helen.

  • Friends Music Campers make music for Glen

    By Carol SimmonsJuly 28, 2016

    Friends Music Camp campers marched through town to promote their annual concert in 2014. This year’s concert is Saturday, July 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Antioch College Foundry Theater. (News archive photo by Matt Minde)

    A couple of busloads of young campers and adult staff from Friends Music Camp are set to arrive in town Saturday, July 30, for the camp’s annual concert to benefit Glen Helen.

  • Village Council—Joint responsiblity for alley care

    By Diane ChiddisterMay 19, 2016

    Alley upkeep is the joint responsibility of Village government and local property owners, according to Village Manager Patti Bates at the May 2  meeting of Yellow Springs Village Council.

  • Sutton Farm land— Village moves closer to sale

    By Diane ChiddisterApril 7, 2016

    At their March 21 meeting Village Council moved a step closer to selling 76 acres of Village-owned land to Glen Helen.

  • Glen Helen’s first real snowfall of the year

    By Robert HasekJanuary 13, 2016

    Hanging around, chillin’: A late morning journey out into winter’s finest finds the cascades in Glen Helen bejeweled with icicles underneath the limestone cliff overhangs. The water still roared in the background, diffused by snow squalls, casting an almost timeless, prehistoric atmosphere over the entire scene. (Photos by Robert Hasek)

    The landscape of the Glen takes on fantastic forms in the Village’s first real snowfall.

  • Glen now protected into perpetuity

    By Diane ChiddisterAugust 20, 2015

    After a nine-year effort, Glen Helen is now officially preserved as forever a green space. A collaboration of federal, state and local agencies assisted in the process of raising funds to purchase conservation easements for the Glen. Shown above are leaders Krista Magaw, executive director of Tecumseh Land Trust, and Glen Director Nick Boutis. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    A nine-year effort to protect Glen Helen finally came to a successful conclusion last week, with the Glen now preserved as a wild place into perpetuity.

  • Camp out with the Perseids

    By Lauren HeatonAugust 9, 2015

    Glen Helen will host a camp-out for stargazers during the Perseid meteor shower Aug. 14.

  • Celebrate Earth Week at the Glen

    By Lauren HeatonApril 16, 2015

    This tree was planted in 1929 by Hugh Taylor Birch in memory of his daughter Helen Bitch Bartlett. (photos by Suzanne Ehalt)

    Earth Day events will be held in the Glen all week, beginning this weekend.

  • Glen Helen acquires Camp Greene

    By Lauren HeatonJanuary 15, 2015

    Glen Helen, with the help of several grants, purchased the former Camp Greene from the Girl Scouts last week.

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