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• World House Choir to debut “Our Planet — Our Lives”

  By YS News StaffSeptember 17, 2019

  

  The World House Choir will debut “Our Planet — Our Lives” on Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.

• World House Choir performs — ‘Earth Mass’ reprised, with two new works

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 12, 2019

  

  The 100 voices of the World House Choir will reprise their celebration of “the earth, forever turning” with “Missa Gaia” and two new, commissioned pieces as part of “Our Planet — Our Lives” this month.

• Sunflower field to receive VIDA award

  By YS News StaffSeptember 9, 2019

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs Arts and Culture Commission will present the Village Inspiration & Design Award, or VIDA, to Dave and Sharen Neuhardt for the sunflower field, which they first planted in 2002.

• First Lines — ‘While tottering …’

  By Audrey HackettSeptember 7, 2019

  

  In this month’s poem, villager Janeal Turnbull Ravndal meditates on marriage, aging and the loss of balance, leading to new forms of grace.

• Sketch comedy show to debut

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 22, 2019

  

  Eliot Cromer and Adam Zaremsky will present a sketch comedy show, “Wistful Meanderings of the Petty,” on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23 and 24, beginning at 8 p.m. at the YS Arts Council.

• Book Fair returns Saturday, Aug. 17

  By Megan BachmanAugust 15, 2019

  

  The 39th annual Yellow Springs Book Fair will be held Saturday, Aug. 17, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., on the grounds of Mills Lawn.

• Dayton ‘Media and Democracy’ event — Journalists oppose Cox Media sale

  By Megan BachmanAugust 8, 2019

  

  Private equity firms now own more than one-third of major news outlets in the U.S. Working journalists have declined by half in a decade. And half of all Americans don’t get news from the community in which they live. 

• News reporter Lauren Heaton dies

  By YS News StaffAugust 1, 2019

  

  Lifetime villager and longtime Yellow Springs News reporter Lauren Heaton died on Sunday morning, July 28, 2019.

• First Lines — The world of objects

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  What do objects want? This month’s poem by Reilly Dixon enters the world of objects.

• Back to the land, 40 years on

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The year was 1976. Fifty people pitched in $1,200 each to purchase a former ranch in southwestern New Mexico. In the language of the age, they sought to go “back to the land.”