Beyond Yellow Springs Section :: Page 3

• No cages, no walls

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2019

  

  Around 60 protesters gathered near the office of Congressman Mike Turner (R-Dayton), on Tuesday, July 2, as part of a nationwide protest at 184 locations to demand action on the inhumane treatment of immigrants.

• Native son Sterling Wright — Home, history, basketball

  By Audrey HackettJune 27, 2019

  

  Sterling Wright, 67, has spent much of his adult life away from his hometown. A professional basketball player who played briefly for the former ABA and the NBA, he was enticed away from the U.S. in 1975 to play the sport professionally in France.

• A new farm is hit with tragedy

  By Megan BachmanJune 20, 2019

  

  Last month, a whiteboard in the heated greenhouse at Oasis Aqua Farms in Beavercreek Township boasted a variety of fresh, organically grown greens and herbs available that day. Then came the tornado.

• Tornado relief donations needed

  By YS News StaffJune 9, 2019

  

  On Monday, May 27, several cities in the Miami Valley were hit by catastrophic tornadoes, resulting in the loss of many homes and businesses. As volunteers and city workers clear out the damage from the storms, they need supplies to make their work easier.

• Yellow Springs filmmaker gets MoMa retrospective

  By YS News StaffMay 31, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs filmmaker Julia Reichert is being honored with a retrospective salute at the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, in New York City, now through June 8.

• Choirs to come together in ‘Concert for Peace and Unity’

  By Carol SimmonsMay 24, 2019

  

  The Yellow Springs-based World House Choir will join with the Jeremy Winston Chorale and the choir of Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church in a “Concert for Peace and Unity” on Saturday, May 25, to counter the message of a rally earlier in the day in downtown Dayton by a KKK-affiliated group from Indiana.

• Greene County— Designs for a new jail

  By Audrey HackettMay 16, 2019

  

  A consulting firm hired by Greene County has so far come up with four possible design options for a new local county jail complex.

• Greene County— Jail options considered

  By Audrey HackettMay 9, 2019

  

  When villager Don Hollister toured the Greene County Jail in downtown Xenia as part of a citizen group a year ago November, he was shocked by how stark it was. “My clearest impression looking at the barred cells was that it seemed out of a movie,” he said. “It fit every stereotype I had of an urban jail.”

• Adventures of an archivist — Letting the volumes speak

  By Matt MindeApril 11, 2019

  

  There’s hidden treasure in Xenia, if you know where to look. Under the unassuming green awning is the Greene County Archives. That name might not suggest intrigue, but for those with a passion for the past and with no fear of digging, it can be a trove of historical exploration.

• Bringing mindfulness to prison

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 4, 2019

  

  Whenever Katie Egart walks into the Dayton Correctional Institution, or DCI, she encounters locked doors.