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• Writing workshops to hone Ripples submissions

  By YS News StaffDecember 16, 2018

  

  Ripples, the literary magazine published by the Yellow Springs Senior Center, is seeking new material written by people affiliated with the village and Miami Township.

• In September, a focus on dementia

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 30, 2018

  

  When organizers for the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs, or DFYS, project held a community book read last winter on a book about dementia, they were encouraged by the hardy response.

• C’mon and dance!

  By Lauren ShowsMay 31, 2018

  

  The annual Senior Center flash mob dance on Wednesday, May 30 on Short St drew participants from both the Senior Center and the Children’s Center.

• A day for community giving

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 23, 2017

  

  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.

• Film explores caregiving, aging

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 25, 2017

  

  Yellow Springs has hosted some weighty documentaries recently, and “Care,” the film showing this weekend at the Little Art, is no exception. And like last month’s village premier of “The Modern Jungle,” which was co-directed by an Antioch professor, “Care” also has a Yellow Springs connection.

• ‘Ripples’ celebrates village’s elders

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 9, 2017

  

  A diversity of both form and content is the goal of “Ripples,” an annual journal that is “a celebration of elders” in the Village.

• Community unity powers D.C. Women’s March

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 2, 2017

  

  Local preparation for last weekend’s Women’s March on Washington may have been as significant for many Yellow Springs women, and for the community at large, as the actual march itself.

• McKee group honors Wright

  By Lauren HeatonApril 16, 2015

  

  For her years of dedicated service, the James A. McKee Association will honor Maria Wright with the 2015 Outstanding Community Service Award.

• Calling on dance to fight Parkinson’s

  By Jenn WheelerOctober 9, 2014

  

  Every Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m., Jill Becker, a local dance instructor, meets with a small group of people at the Yellow Springs Senior Center to lead a dance class intended to help participants manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

• Getting low at the Yellow Springs Senior Center

  By Matt MindeJune 24, 2014

  

  The low frequencies were favored last Thursday, June 19 at the Senior Center as Hans Marlette treated the gathered to a display of what the tuba can do as a solo instrument.