Village Life Section :: Page 107
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Meteor shower to hit peak this weekend
This month, the Earth makes its annual trip through the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle, the debris from which causes the brightest and most prolific meteor shower of the year: the Perseids. The shower will be at its most prolific this weekend, and two viewing opportunities in and near the village have been planned
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Fifty years in the same house
Fifty years ago this summer, Carl and Sue Johnson moved into a handsome brick home on Dayton Street with their school-aged sons, John and Jim.
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Free yoga class offered
A free, all-levels yoga class will be offered outdoors at Antioch College on Saturday, Aug. 5., 9–10 a.m.
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Yucky balls and divine mud
It’s been an unusually wet month. WHIOTV7 weather says we’ve had 4.04 inches of rain this month and that the normal amount of rain in July is 2.91 inches. “This isn’t T-ball,” Erin Fink exclaimed. “It’s mud ball!”
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Major League Baseball: Dodgers win season
The 2017 Minor League post-season tournament lingers on, thanks to more rain last weekend that delayed the championship game not just once, but twice.
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Harold Wright— A bridger of words, and worlds
It’s been a dozen years since Harold Wright’s last trip to Japan, the longest time he’s been away from the country he fell in love with as a young man. But this fall, he and his wife, Jonatha, will be flying to Tokyo as the honored guests of Emperor Meiji.
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Cool kids
Some villagers found relief from the heat last week at the Gaunt Park pool, although abundant rain and several storms made swimming iffy.
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A muddlicious time at T-ball
I love the mud balls and mud puddles. In fact, I yearn for the days before the Village put in drainage pipes, which drain the field after a good rain, forever eliminating the great six-foot-diameter, 28 square feet of water puddles of yesteryear.
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Tom’s Market Pirates top Minor League
The Tom’s Market Pirates continued their late season rally last week with three victories and won the overall 2017 Minor League regular season championship by just a half-game over the Peach’s Dodgers.
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Preserving vital local black history
John Gudgel has had family in Yellow Springs since the 1890s; Kevin McGruder came to the village via Antioch College only five years ago. Together, these two historians are trying to preserve some vital local history that is in danger of being lost.
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