From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 47

• ‘Hidden in Plain Site’ exhibition opens at former Baptist church

  By Cheryl DurgansApril 20, 2023

  

  A painting, created by Bronx-based artist Rafaela Santos — with a simple color palette of reds, blues, whites and blacks — draws the eyes immediately when walking into the newly completed architecture studio, Crome Yellow Springs, formerly the church home of the predominately African American First Baptist Church.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education | Facilities options narrow to six

  By Lauren Shows

  

  At a Wednesday, March 29 work session of the YS Board of Education, board members winnowed the number of plans for potential facilities upgrades under consideration from eight options to six.

• 100 native wildlife habitats in Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonApril 18, 2023

  

  Over 100 properties throughout the village have been certified with the National Wildlife Federation, or NWF, as official native wildlife habitats. Each of these properties — 108, to be exact — have met the NWF’s criteria of providing local fauna with sources of food, water and shelter, while abiding by stringent sustainable practices.

• Local servers, bartenders take ‘Safe Bars’ training

  By Lauren ShowsApril 17, 2023

  

  Last month, about a dozen Yellow Springs bartenders and servers gathered to learn how to recognize and curtail sexual harassment and assault in their establishments.

• Guy Davis to headline Antioch School Scholarship Gala

  By Lauren ShowsApril 16, 2023

  

  The Antioch School will hold its Scholarship Gala fundraising event at the Foundry Theater on Friday, April 21. Headlining this year’s gala event is Grammy-nominated blues musician Guy Davis.

• ‘The Insatiable Volt Sisters’ | Rachel Eve Moulton debuts novel

  By Lauren ShowsApril 15, 2023

  

  Rachel Eve Moulton will read from “The Insatiable Volt Sisters” Sunday, April 16, 3–5 p.m., at Emporium Wines and Underdog Cafe, with an introduction by author Katrina Kittle.

• Cheers to 10 years at Yellow Springs Brewery

  By Reilly DixonApril 14, 2023

  

  On Saturday, April 15, Yellow Springs Brewery is throwing a day-long 10th anniversary party at its Millworks location to mark a decade of “crafting truth to power” right here in Yellow Springs.

• Architect Max Crome holds open house at former church

  By Cheryl DurgansApril 13, 2023

  

  On Thursday, March 30, Crome Yellow Springs — owned by village resident Max Crome — held an open house at the business’ newly completed architecture studio in the former site of the predominately African American First Baptist Church and more recently, a private residence.

• News from the Past: April 2023

  By Reilly DixonApril 11, 2023

  

  From an April 1948 issue of the News: “New strain of chestnut trees planted in Glen. The United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, has chosen Antioch College’s Glen Helen as a test site for a new blight-resistant strain of 78 chestnuts which it has been developing.”

• ‘Five Scripts’ to return to the stage

  By YS News StaffApril 10, 2023

  

  On Monday and Tuesday, April 10 and 11, the young thespians of McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School will present two reprise performances of their fall show, “Five Scripts Toward an Anti-Racist Tomorrow,” at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College. Each show begins at 7 p.m.