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Village Life Section :: Page 106

  • 2017 #YSGivingTuesday donations on track to top last year

    By Carol SimmonsDecember 8, 2017

    #YSGivingTuesday committee members, from left, Kathryn Hitchcock, Jeannamarie Cox, Dawn Boyer and Ara Beal, are preparing for the village’s second year participating in the charitable giving campaign that falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. While the initiative is focused on online giving, the local effort also will accept in-person donations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Yellow Springs Senior Center. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    The numbers are still coming in, but with 19 of 24 participating local nonprofit groups reporting their 2017 #YSGivingTuesday results, the money raised during the 24-hour charitable event Nov. 28 is on track to top last year’s $75,000 mark.

  • 2017 Annual 5K Bulldog Jog

    By YS News StaffDecember 7, 2017

    2017 Bulldog Jog, organized by and benefiting Mills Lawn PTO. (Video contributed by Patti Dallas)

    Almost 200 children and adults participated in this year’s post-Thanksgiving Bulldog Jog.

  • BLOG—Poor Jerusalem

    By Aaron Maurice Saari

    Jerusalem was a backwater town controlled by a Semitic tribe called the Jebusites before King David cast his eyes upon it around 1000 BCE. He saw Jerusalem’s location and natural fortifications as being perfect for a great capital city that could transcended tribal identification and unite the people.

  • Greene County Public Library to loan telescopes

    By YS News StaffDecember 3, 2017

    The Orion reflector telescope acquired by the Greene County Library. (Illustration by Matt Minde)

    The Greene County Public Library is circulating more than movies, music and books — library patrons can now check out telescopes using their library cards.

  • Full house, full bellies at Community Thanksgiving

    By Matt MindeNovember 30, 2017

    Foodstuffs — and people — were plentiful at the 2017 Community Thanksgiving Dinner. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    The annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, organized by the Yellow Springs Interfaith Council, completed its 12th year in crowded splendor, hosting over 250 people.

  • More bucks, more books

    By Matt Minde

    The Yellow Springs Library Association recently presented $3,500 to the Greene County Public Library Foundation to be used for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Pictured above are Connie Collett, head librarian, Yellow Springs Community Library; Karl Colón, director, Greene County Public Library; Roger Reynolds, treasurer, Yellow Springs Library Association and Bea Karthaus-Hunt, president, Yellow Springs Library Association. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    The Yellow Springs Library Association recently presented $3,500 to the Greene County Public Library Foundation to be used for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

  • 2017 Holiday in the Village

    By YS News StaffNovember 27, 2017

    Read the online edition of the Guide to Yellow Springs.

  • New director at YS Community Children’s Center

    By YS News Staff

    Malissa Doster, the new Executive Director at the Children’s Center. (Submitted photo)

    Malissa Doster is the new executive director of the Yellow Springs Community Children Center.

  • Shop small this Saturday

    By Audrey HackettNovember 24, 2017

    Small Business Saturday is happening in downtown Yellow Springs Nov. 25. Shop small, local and festive in the village.

  • A day for community giving

    By Carol SimmonsNovember 23, 2017

    After collecting $75,000 in a single day last November, an effort to raise money for local nonprofit groups is returning to the village for a second year this holiday season.

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