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Village Life Section :: Page 108

  • Walking the walk

    By Matt MindeJanuary 19, 2017

    Several hundred community members marched in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday to the Foundry Theater on the Antioch College campus. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Several hundred community members marched in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday to the Foundry Theater on the Antioch College campus.

  • Peaceful ball drop turns ugly

    By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 12, 2017

    Police from at least six municipalities and agencies joined Yellow Springs police in a presence downtown on the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop that many villagers found hostile and aggressive. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Kinner Fischer)

    Lance Rudegeair had dropped the New Year’s ball at 12 a.m., and was still up on the ladder when the police car lights began flashing. Then came the sirens. It was 12:08 a.m. The sound was deafening.

  • Eco-sattva: Climate compassion, action

    By Matt Minde

    The Dharma Center and Community Solutions are partnering to offer an “eco-sattva” training beginning Jan. 12 to help villagers take mindful, effective action in response to climate change. Pictured outside the Dharma Center are, counterclockwise, course facilitators Saul Greenberg, Dione Greenberg and MJ Gentile, with Dharma Center Board Member Katie Egart. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Eco-sattva, a blend of “ecology” and “bodhisattva,” the term refers to a person working for the well-being of all life in the face of environmental harm.

  • MLK Day walk to take new route

    By Web AdminJanuary 9, 2017

    The 2017 MLK Jr. Day walk will take a new route on Monday, Jan. 16. (Photo by matt Minde)

    The theme of this year’s MLK Jr. Day events will be “Love in Action: Justice. Building. Pursuing. Uniting.” The annual walk from Mills Lawn will take a new route this year.

  • Train to be an ‘eco-sattva’

    By Audrey HackettJanuary 6, 2017

    The Dharma Center and Community Solutions are partnering to offer a course in Buddhist responses to climate change. The course begins Jan. 12.

  • 2016: Yellow Springs year in Review — Village life

    By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 5, 2017

    A group of about 250 demonstrators gathered on Xenia Avenue last week to “repudiate the bigotry and disgraceful behavior” exemplified by Trump’s comments on the “Access Hollywood” video. Among them were, from left, Will Gregor, Teresa Dunphy, Tommaso Gregor, Beth Holyoke and Andy Holyoke. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    2016: Yellow springs year in Review — Village life

  • Celebrate Kwanzaa, Hanukkah this week

    By Audrey HackettDecember 29, 2016

    Villagers will gather to celebrate Kwanzaa on Dec. 29 and Hanukkah on Dec. 30. Both celebrations are open to all interested in attending.

  • Christmas Eve services (+ bonus poem)

    By Audrey HackettDecember 24, 2016

    Across the village’s various houses of worship, services are happening on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

  • ‘Blue Christmas’ honors complexities of season

    By Audrey HackettDecember 23, 2016

    First Presbyterian Church is offering a “Blue Christmas” service this Friday, Dec. 23, to acknowledge the darker side of the season of light.

  • Phyllis Lawson Jackson: Deep roots, and a historian’s eye

    By Diane ChiddisterDecember 22, 2016

    Phyllis Lawson Jackson is the fifth generation of the Lawson family to live in Yellow Springs. Jackson, known as a local historian, is shown beside her grandmother’s lamp and table in her Stafford Street home. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    You’d be hard pressed to find someone with deeper Yellow Springs roots than Phylllis Lawson Jackson, the fifth generation of the Lawson family to live in the village.

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