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Beyond Yellow Springs Section :: Page 8

  • A hometown writer tells own story

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMarch 9, 2017

    Chris Tebbetts, a Yellow Springs native and author of a few successful book series for young readers, will be speaking at the Little Art Theatre as part of their “Homecoming” series, in which people with interesting careers speak about their history and their craft. Tebbetts made a name for himself as co-author of the “Middle School” books, a series in which the protagonist “copes with the awkwardness of adolescence.” (Submitted Photo)

    Chris Tebbetts, a Yellow Springs native and author of a few successful book series for young readers, will be speaking at the Little Art Theatre as part of their “Homecoming” series, in which people with interesting careers speak about their history and their craft.

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

    By Carol SimmonsFebruary 2, 2017

    After riding through the night via chartered bus, and deposited in a Washington, D.C., parking lot after sunrise Saturday, Jan. 21, 55 women from Yellow Springs prepared to join hundreds of thousands of people from across the country streaming toward the National Mall for Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington. The bus passengers represented a portion of village residents who particpated in the historic event. (Submitted photo by Lydia, the busdriver)

    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.

  • Protest in Dayton to stop ban on refugees and H-1B travel

    By Web AdminJanuary 28, 2017

    A protest against the Trump administration's recent ban on Syrian refugees and Muslim immigrants will be held Sunday, Jan. 29, from 3–5 p.m. at 120 W 3rd St. in Dayton. (Image via Pixabay)

    Yellow Springs resident Rebecca Potter has organized a rally in Dayton this Sunday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration ban on Syrian refugees and people seeking entry to the United States from several other predominantly Muslim countries.

  • Activists react to pipeline news

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 15, 2016

    Last Friday, the Army Corps of Engineers made a decision to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which gave hope to0 the people demonstrating against the pipeline’s construction. While good news, anti-DAPL activists aren’t celebrating quite yet.

  • Standing up for Standing Rock

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 24, 2016

    About 35 people gathered at the Yellow Springs Speedway last Friday to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, which cuts through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The local protest is one of several efforts in Yellow Springs to call attention to the issue and support protestors in Standing Rock. Speedway’s parent company, Marathon, is a major investor in the pipeline project, and local protestors plan to continue pressuring the company with demonstrations each Friday in Yellow Springs and each Wednesday at Speedway’s Enon headquarters. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Recently, a number of Yellow Springs residents have been advocating on behalf of those demonstrating against the construction of an oil pipeline through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota.

  • Building an historic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

    By Carol SimmonsNovember 17, 2016

    Smithsonian Institution. Tuliza Fleming, a YS High School graduate, is the curator of art for the Smithsonian’s recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Named to the position in 2007, she was tasked with creating the then yet-to-be-built museum’s permanent art collection. She’s shown here in 2014. (Submitted photo by Michael R. Barnes)

    The opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in September followed more than a century of efforts to recognize formally in our nation’s Capital the contributions of black Americans in the making, building, growth and life of this country.

  • Ohio leaders scrutinize policing

    By Audrey HackettSeptember 1, 2016

    Sixth article in this series: In 2014, two high-profile police shooting deaths in Ohio occurred within three months of each other, sparking public outcry and calls for policing reform.

  • Cows, combs, fast food at the Greene County fair

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanAugust 18, 2016

    Yellow Springs resident Austin Pence did some last minute primping and preening of the heifer that he and friend Jordin Snider showed in the Greene County Fair last week. Pence has been showing cattle for 13 years, and said that heifers should be big-boned and have a wide chest. Not too spread out, but not too close together. “You want the heifers to look effeminate,” he said, “like they can carry a baby.” (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    Yellow Springs native Austin Pence has been showing cattle at the Greene County Fair for 13 years, and the pre-show primping is part of the daily routine.

  • Rumpke waste processing facility — Just don’t call it a garbage dump

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 5, 2016

    The Rumpke recycling facility outside of Cincinnati processes up to 55 tons of recyclables per day. The incoming materials are sorted by hand, then sorted further through a series of complicated mechanical processes. The Green Environmental Coalition recently organized a tour of the recycling center and landfill. (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    Trash is an inevitable part of life. A big part of life, to the tune of almost five pounds per person per day, and those five pounds of garbage have to go somewhere.

  • Press conference continues local ‘Justice for John Crawford’ fight

    By Audrey HackettApril 21, 2016

    About 40 people gathered on the Antioch campus last evening to hear local activist Bomani Moyenda and Rev. Jerome McCorry, of Dayton, respond to the latest development in the 2014 Beavercreek Walmart shooting case.

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