Articles About Yellow Springs Community Library

• Art Book Circle makes art, community

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 19, 2024

  

  In 2023, 10 local residents spent the better part of the year filling 10 books with original art, a page at a time.

• Free lunch program feeds local youth

  By Lauren ShowsJune 26, 2023

  

  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.

• Quietly sharing the joy each year

  By YS News StaffDecember 12, 2022

  

  All the requests for this year’s Share the Joy tree have been made, and tags with gift requests are waiting to be filled at the Yellow Springs Library. The deadline for filling the requests is Friday, Dec. 16, by the library’s closing time at 6 p.m.

• Racial justice, one book at a time

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 11, 2022

  

  A new Little Free Library is on track to be installed at Gaunt Park this month, and the library will be filled with books themed around social and racial justice.

• 2021 Share the Joy holiday tree at the Yellow Springs Community Library

  By YS News StaffNovember 25, 2021

  

  The 2021 Share the Joy holiday tree is now up at the YS Community Library. The tree is an annual community effort for the residents of Yellow Springs and Miami Township who need help at holidays.

• 30 years of letters to Santa

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 24, 2020

  

  For nearly all of the last three decades, former villager Peggy Barker has compiled these letters as Santa’s assistant. She said she took up the job in 1989 when she found herself with some extra time on her hands.

• Art fare

  By YS News StaffAugust 15, 2019

  

  2019 Art on the Lawn

• Decent ascent

  By YS News StaffAugust 2, 2019

  

  On Thursday, July 25, the Yellow Springs Public Library put on “This Really is Rocket Science!” for youth in grades five and up.

• At the Library — Learning to disarm the inner critic

  By Megan BachmanOctober 25, 2018

  

  For the past nine years, local author Rebecca Kuder has dialogued with an inner voice that once kept her from accessing her creativity as a writer, and her joy as a person.

• Loves me like a rock …

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 13, 2017

  

  The Kindness Rocks Project, which swept the country this spring after its start by a life coach in Massachusetts, has hit Yellow Springs as well.