From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 42

• Senior Center offers Medicare open enrollment consultations

  By Guest ContributorNovember 22, 2023

  

  This is more than the holiday season — it’s the season for Medicare open enrollment. And while that doesn’t have the same allure as Thanksgiving or Christmas, it carries a healthy significance for people aged 65 and older.

• The Briar Patch | Banging on pots

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  “My mom — or was it my aunt Annie? — told me that my Grandma Ira used to cry while banging on pots and singing hymns when she was in despair. I always wondered what hymns she sang; no one could recall.”

• Operations levy renewal expected for March

  By Lauren Shows

  

  At its most recent meeting on Thursday, Nov. 9, the Yellow Springs school board voted unanimously to approve a resolution of necessity that will place a substitute operations levy on the March 19, 2024, ballot.

• Villagers build prairie nursery

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 20, 2023

  

  As the weather grows colder and Yellow Springs moves through fall and toward winter, one hope for future spring and summer is already planted and waiting in the Thistle Creek development, on the edge of the Glass Farm Wetland and Conservation Area.

• My Name Is Iden | Sometimes, it’s enough

  By Iden Crockett

  

  “Years of telling myself, every day, that I was a failure. That what I’d given of myself had made no difference. I hadn’t realized how badly I needed those words: ‘Baby, it was enough.'”

• ‘Sources of Strength’ | New school program encourages wellbeing

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 19, 2023

  

  The new program, “Sources of Strength,” is sponsored by the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation and PreventionFirst and is designed to reduce the risk of suicide, bullying and substance abuse.

• Fiber artists to unveil newest installation in Glen Helen

  By Reilly DixonNovember 18, 2023

  

  On Sunday, Nov. 19, local multimedia artists Kathi Seidl and Beth Holyoke will unveil their newest installation: a kaleidoscopic fairy ring of felted and crocheted mushrooms clustered up and around the central pillar in the atrium of the Vernet Ecological Center.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | On hats and sticks

  By Guest ContributorNovember 17, 2023

  

  We are teetering on the brink of fall. It is absolutely my favorite season in Ohio. Last year I discovered delicata squash, which changed my life. Goodness, they are delicious. This year, however, we haven’t planted any: they are exploding everywhere, and I reckon we have about 20, ranging from almost a foot long to about three inches.

• Experimental sounds coming to the Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 15, 2023

  

  The performance will feature duo Zoh Amba and Chris Corsano and local resident and musician Evan Miller in an evening of music that defies traditional musical boundaries and — due to the musicians’ improvisational styles — precludes expectation.

• New Greene County Jail construction underway

  By Reilly DixonNovember 14, 2023

  

  On Friday, Oct. 27, state and county leaders gathered at the Greene County Adult Detention Center in Xenia to break ground on a $76 million facility that will house a new county jail as well as county law enforcement administration offices.