2024 Yellow Springs Giving & Gifting Catalogue
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Feature Photos Section :: Page 28

  • 40,000 feet in the street

    By Diane ChiddisterOctober 19, 2017

    Street Fair dancer (Photo by Aaron Zaremsky)

    Fall Street Fair drew an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 people last Saturday for Yellow Springs’ semi-annual extravaganza.

  • Taking the knee, together

    By Audrey HackettOctober 12, 2017

    Protesters at Saturday’s action took a knee and sang the national anthem while kneeling on one knee, a gesture of solidarity with NFL players who have done the same during the anthem. Pictured here, from left, are villagers Kelly Fox, Tina Fox, Dan Dixon, Maria Bakari, Sherry Walker and Aiysha Walker. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    At least 65 local protesters “took the knee” for racial justice last Saturday.

  • One-horse town

    By Matt MindeOctober 5, 2017

    Baby D, aka Diablo, was the talk of the downtown Friday afternoon as he stopped foot traffic in front of Pangaea and Dark Star Books. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Baby D, aka Diablo, was the talk of the downtown Friday afternoon as he stopped foot traffic in front of Pangaea and Dark Star Books.

  • 30 years in mediation

    By YS News StaffSeptember 28, 2017

    Pictured at the ceremony celebrating 30 years of the Village Mediation Program are mediators John Gudgel, Janet Mueller, Bruce Heckman, Marianne MacQueen, Jalyn Roe, Len Kramer, Staffan Erickson and Jane Scott, with Mayor Foubert. (Submitted photo)

    Sept. 14 was proclaimed as Village Mediation Program Day by Mayor Dave Foubert, with a resolution passed by Village Council, in honor of the program

  • Street sweets

    By Audrey HackettSeptember 21, 2017

    The North Stafford and Union streets block party not only served as a late-summer gathering, but also as a graduation celebration for Horton, who recently received her master’s in mental health counseling. Pictured here, Jayden Toms was one of many block-partiers who cut, with gusto, into the big “Happy Graduation” cake. (Photos by Audrey Hackett)

    About 30 friends and neighbors, including about 10 kids, gathered in front of Heather Horton’s house on Saturday, Sept. 16, for the North Stafford and Union streets block party.

  • With Their Faces to the Sun

    By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 15, 2017

    A golden sea of petals seem to wave to visitors as they peruse the land saved by Whitehall Farm.

  • Activists are awake and watching

    By Carol SimmonsSeptember 14, 2017

    Yellow Springs resident Susan Alberter (left front), the driving force behind Greene County Indivisible: Awake and Watching, was among a number of group members who participated in a rally Tuesday, Sept. 5, in downtown Dayton to protest the president’s efforts to rescind President Barack Obama’s executive order known as DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. An estimated 100 people, many from Yellow Springs, gathered outside U.S. Rep. Mike Turner’s regional office to urge Turner to help retain the legal status of 800,000 young people called “Dreamers.” (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    They’ve been dressing up in chicken suits each Monday and visiting downtown Dayton with signs suggesting that U.S. Representative Mike Turner, whose regional office is there, might be “a chicken” for not meeting yet this year with local constituents in a town hall setting.

  • Liquid asset

    By Megan Bachman

    Brad Ault (left), Village superintendent of water and wastewater, said this week that the new water plant will be in operation by the end of the year. Also pictured is John Christenson of the water and wastewater department. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Construction continues at the new $7.2 million Village water plant on Jacoby Road, which broke ground in September 2016.

  • Lap dogs

    By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 7, 2017

    Three tiny dogs who clearly enjoyed each other’s company as much as their dip in Labor Day's Gaunt Park Pool Doggie Splash fundraiser. (Photo by Aaron Zaremsky)

    Nearly 40 canines and their human companions, along with one miniature horse, took part in the first Doggie Splash on Labor Day at the Gaunt Park pool.

  • Around the blocks

    By YS News Staff

    Best to start them young! One of the youngest block party revelers — Juniper DeVore Leonard, almost 2 — enjoyed her moment in the sun, and on a blanket, at the Whiteman/Davis Triangle party on Sunday, Aug. 27. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    It’s block party season, and the photos are coming in…

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