Yellow Springs News Blogs Section

• COLUMN: Into the thicket

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 28, 2020

  

  A briar patch is a “thicket formed by any number of unrelated thorny parts.” The briar patch figures prominently in the escape route of “Brer Rabbit,” the trickster figure in African American folktales in the mid-1800s.

• BLOG— Our paper

  By Audrey HackettApril 10, 2018

  

  Almost 20 years later, I landed another job at another community paper. This one was in Yellow Springs, Ohio — perhaps you’ve heard of it — and the paper was well over 100 years old, with Quaker roots.

• BLOG — A funny old dog

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 28, 2018

  

  Lauren “Chuck” Shows writes about a favorite children’s book — and what it means to belong to yourself.

• BLOG-The Calypso Grill Opens

  By Amy MagnusMarch 25, 2018

  

  The irony of this new fallen snow is that it landed on the opening day of a Caribbean experience…The Calypso Grill.

• BLOG— New light that is also old light

  By Audrey HackettMarch 13, 2018

  

  The moon this morning is a golden horn. To the south and west, the planets are shining — Jupiter, Venus. Yesterday at the same morning hour the moon was a creamy horn, caught, like an animal in a thicket, in a mesh of trees.

• Of cabbages and kings

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 12, 2018

  

  Lauren “Chuck” Shows writes briefly about cabbage soup and American attitudes toward food assistance.

• BLOG — Finding common ground

  By Megan BachmanMarch 1, 2018

  

  This year’s statewide organic food and farming conference offered hope that farmers may find common ground in a polarized time, despite ongoing attacks of the organic industry.

• BLOG— The rule of love

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 13, 2018

  

  When I was six — and eight, and 10, but never again after then — I made valentines for everybody in my class. Everybody did. The rule was that you liked everybody, even those you suspected you didn’t like.

• BLOG-Speak to Me

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 21, 2018

  

  So much has happened in this week, it is well that it started with a call to service.

• BLOG—”Above all, try something”: On food insecurity in the village

  By Aaron Maurice SaariJanuary 18, 2018

  

  Eighteen months ago, Kate Anderson came to my office at First Presbyterian Church and said, “I feel called to address food insecurity, but I don’t know what that looks like yet.” Now, with three financial donors and a growing list of volunteers, it seems our prayers are being answered.