2024 Yellow Springs Giving & Gifting Catalogue
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  • Antioch College Summer Institute — Exploring ways of knowing

    By Carol SimmonsAugust 1, 2019

    Antioch College’s Mental Health Counselor Nzingha Dalila has organized a day-long symposium Saturday, July 27, titled “Flow 2019: Ways of Knowing,” as part of the college’s inaugural Summer Institute. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    As a therapist in an academic setting, Nzingha Dalila sees learning and knowledge through the eyes of a wellness practitioner.

  • Invasive of the month— climbing vines

    By Audrey Hackett

    Two invasives: Wintercreeper/euonymus, left, and Asian bittersweet, right, are two non-native invasive climbing vines widespread in Yellow Springs. (Photos by Audrey Hackett)

    If you see something green in winter, it’s probably wintercreeper, a non-native invasive species of euonymus. Asian bittersweet is a little harder to identify. It’s most noticeable in the fall, when its leaves are off and bright red berries and yellow seed capsules make the plant attractive to some.

  • Yellow Springs Schools — Holden takes the helm

    By Carol Simmons

    Terri Holden, Yellow Springs’ new superintendent of schools, moved into her new office full time on Monday, July 22, and is beginning her work by talking to people about their experiences of the local schools. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    Her official contract doesn’t begin until Aug. 1, but Terri Holden, the new superintendent of Yellow Springs Schools, is already on the job full time.

  • Wilhelmina ‘Mina’ Allen Huber

    By YS News Staff

    Wilhelmina “Mina” Allen Huber, 89, died on July 21, 2019, after more than two years of leukemia-related illness.

  • Ronald Mark Sirkin

    By YS News Staff

    Ronald Mark Sirkin

    Dr. Ronald Mark Sirkin, 76, of Yellow Springs, passed away peacefully on July 18, 2019.

  • Back to the land, 40 years on

    By Audrey Hackett

    A film still from “Hippie Family Values,” showing children in the early days of the Ranch, an intentional community in New Mexico that is the focus of Bev Seckinger’s 2018 documentary, playing at the Little Art Theatre on Monday, July 29, at 6 p.m. The film was edited by villager Jim Klein. (Submitted Photo)

    The year was 1976. Fifty people pitched in $1,200 each to purchase a former ranch in southwestern New Mexico. In the language of the age, they sought to go “back to the land.”

  • Council explores incentives for EnviroFlight

    By Megan Bachman

    The Village of Yellow Springs is working to keep local insect-based feed company EnviroFlight in the village.

  • The issues with large-scale solar

    By Megan Bachman

    Cooperative Solar Farm One is Lendlease’s 60-acre solar energy facility in Clark County, Ky. The solar energy facility features 32,300 solar panels capable of producing up to 8.5 MW of electricity. LendLease has a plan for a solar array in the rural area southeast of Yellow Springs that would be about 20 times as large. (Photo via LendLease.com)

    An Australian company, Lendlease, has acquired close to 1,000 acres of long-term leases there as part of its Kingswood Solar Farm, a utility-scale solar array that could cover 1,200 acres and produce 175 megawatts of green electricity.

  • Village Council — Incentives sought to keep EnviroFlight here

    By Megan Bachman

    The Village of Yellow Springs is working to keep local insect-based feed company EnviroFlight in the village.

  • Basora reflects on his tenure

    By Carol Simmons

    Outgoing schools Superintendent Mario Basora bids farewell to Yellow Springs Schools after nine years in the top administrative position. On his final day in the office, he came outside for a picture beside a tree that has grown from a sapling since his first week on the job. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    For his final day in the office as Yellow Springs Schools superintendent, Mario Basora had hoped to walk over from his home on Allen Street.

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