Articles About community

• Council eyes option for smaller, denser housing

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 10, 2017

  

  Recently Village Council considered a new zoning category for small homes that encourage community.

• Police explain the status quo

  By Lauren HeatonApril 2, 2015

  

  The Yellow Springs Police Department will continue to employ one officer on the Greene County ACE Task Force to help contain violent crime in the region. The local police will also continue to call the SWAT team when appropriate to ensure the village’s safety during violent and potentially harmful situations. The size of the department […]

• #ysgram show focuses on the local

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 26, 2015

  

  Organizers of the #ysgram, the new show at the Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery, want to offer villagers an opportunity to see familiar local sights in new ways.

• Balancing a low crime rate with high policing costs

  By Megan Bachman

  

  While last year there were 28 murders in the City of Dayton and more than 1,200 violent crimes there, violence in Yellow Springs has barely been an issue, with an average of about three violent incidents each year for the last seven.

• Village Council considers solar project

  By Matt MindeJanuary 15, 2015

  

  At their Jan. 5 meeting, Village Council members heard robust support for a proposed community solar project.

• Kindness and caring in Yellow Springs, 2014

  By YS News StaffJanuary 1, 2015

  

  For this holiday edition of the News, staffers asked readers to respond to the question, “What acts of kindness and caring have you witnessed in the village during 2014?” I am grateful for the kind acts of love and kindness shown to me from a very cool villager named Nick Cunningham. My family is sort […]

• Resident records police action

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 20, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs Police acknowledged last week that the local department had made some errors when one of its officers allegedly used physical force against a  citizen.

• Yellow Springs Community Foundation celebrates 40 years cultivating community

  By Lauren HeatonApril 17, 2014

  

  The three-heart logo that has stood for the Yellow Springs Community Foundation since 1974 represents its three pillars — the donors, the recipients and the beneficiaries: the people of Yellow Springs.

• Police story: crime and the village

  By Megan BachmanMarch 6, 2014

  

  Earlier this month two vehicles were stolen, 10 more were broken into. Last year nine local residences were burglarized. But more commonly, however, the Yellow Springs Police Department deals with complaints of barking dogs, loud music and stolen bicycles.

• Antioch College skill-sharing workshop­ — From herbal tea to art from trash

  By Megan BachmanAugust 29, 2013

  

  Everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach. That’s the idea behind skill-sharing, a type of education described as community-based, non-competitive and intergenerational.