Health & Wellness Section :: Page 28

• A weekend of wellness and art healing

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 21, 2012

  

  With hopes of re-igniting regional interest in the town’s alternative therapies, holistic health practitioners and artists have teamed up to put on this weekend’s Wellness Experience.

• West Nile issue: to spray or not?

  By Megan BachmanAugust 30, 2012

  Last Thursday about 6:30 a.m, as many villagers still slept, a Greene County Combined Health District truck rolled slowly through a neighborhood in southern Yellow Springs spraying a fine mist of insecticides.

• West Nile Virus found in village mosquitoes

  By Megan BachmanAugust 14, 2012

  

  Local mosquitoes tested positive last week for West Nile Virus, a potentially serious illness, prompting the Greene County Combined Health District to begin spraying insecticide in one village neighborhood.

• A overly-hot village keeps its cool

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 19, 2012

  

  Villagers took the second week of scorching heat like champions last Friday and Saturday, when temperatures soared to record highs. The Village pool was well utilized.

• Villagers weigh in on their water

  By Megan BachmanMay 24, 2012

  Ask villagers about their experience with Yellow Springs water and the stories will flow.

• Tackling hard water, hard choices

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 10, 2012

  Of all the critical decisions made by municipal governments, perhaps no decisions are more important than those concerning water.

• YS a bright star on yoga map

  By Matt MindeApril 25, 2012

  About 100 yoga practitioners from all over the country and other countries as well are descending on Yellow Springs to study yoga with Judith Lasater, a California-based and internationally-known yoga teacher.

• Many issues of village water

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 8, 2012

  Water. We can’t live without it. But chances are, we don’t spend much time thinking about it. And questions regarding water quality are edging closer to Yellow Springs.

• New family doctor comes to town

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 16, 2012

  

  The local arts scene — and specifically this week’s Chamber Music Yellow Springs concert — can take some credit for bringing Dr. Alan Fark, a new physician, to town.

• Here to help dogs do good

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 9, 2012

  

  Veera, a 10-month-old golden retriever in training at 4 Paws for Ability in Xenia, is a very smart dog. Thanks to her handler, Yarden Oron, the dog is learning skills she will need when she graduates and gets placed as a service dog to help someone living with epilepsy.