Village Life Section :: Page 112

• The 365 Project seeks ‘Reflections on Race’

  By YS News StaffOctober 9, 2017

  

  As part of its mission to facilitate courageous conversations related to racial equity, The 365 Project has begun an initiative, “Reflections on Race,” to collect anecdotal, personal reflections related to positive or challenging interracial interactions in YS across the years.

• Villagers asked to complete Housing Needs Assessment survey

  By YS News StaffOctober 7, 2017

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs has contracted with Bowen National Research to conduct a Housing Needs Assessment in the village.

• Fixing up ‘stuff,’ building bonds

  By Audrey HackettOctober 5, 2017

  

  Twenty-five people brought items ranging from laptops to old slippers to electric boot driers to the recent Repair Café at the Bryan Center, organized by the Yellow Springs Time Exchange. There were nine volunteer “fixers” on hand to help.

• BLOG — Living Pilate, Living Christ

  By Aaron Maurice SaariSeptember 28, 2017

  

  In which a recovering biblical scholar long-windedly tries to say goodbye to Barry Dennen.

• Learn about fall prevention at workshop

  By YS News StaffSeptember 25, 2017

  

  A fall prevention workshop will be offered Thursday, Sept. 28 at 10:30 a.m. in the Bryan Center gym.

• ‘Books and Beer’ fundraiser to return

  By YS News StaffSeptember 23, 2017

  

  The Greene County Public Library Foundation will again host “Books and Beer,” a fundraiser for Greene County’s Dolly Parton Imagination Library program, at YS Brewery.

• BLOG–Enacting MLK’s Beloved Community: Yellow Springs Edition

  By Aaron Maurice SaariSeptember 21, 2017

  

  What began with a community meeting in 2015 is culminating in a six-week journey this fall. Do we have the communal will to be in significant relationships with refugees and Muslims in the greater-Dayton area? 

• Repair Café to return to village

  By YS News StaffSeptember 20, 2017

  

  The YS Repair Café will be held for a second time on Saturday, Sept. 23, 1–4 p.m. at the Bryan Center.

• Always coming home to the village

  By Holly HudsonSeptember 14, 2017

  

  Betty and Jim Felder, both in their 80s, have been recounting their time in Yellow Springs, how they met and when they came here, by each telling their stories which circle back, intertwine and pick up where the other left off.

• Still vibrant, still Victorettes

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  In the spring of 1944, a group of young African-American women came together under the leadership and musical direction of Dorothy Boyce. They called themselves “The Victorettes.”