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Village Life Section :: Page 139

  • Events abound on Easter weekend 2014 in Yellow Springs

    By Lauren HeatonApril 18, 2014

    The village hosts both spiritual and secular events during the Easter weekend.

  • Yellow Springs Community Foundation celebrates 40 years cultivating community

    By Lauren HeatonApril 17, 2014

    The Yellow Springs Community Foundation is celebrating 40 years this year with a monthly series of soundslide stories featuring its donors, grant recipients and beneficiaries. The audio pieces begin this week on the YSCF Facebook page, and continue through September, when the foundation will host a celebration party at the Antioch College Wellness Center. Above, Collin Calfee, left, and Gini Meekin participate in the Project Peace, funded in part by the Community Foundation. (Submitted Photo)

    The three-heart logo that has stood for the Yellow Springs Community Foundation since 1974 represents its three pillars — the donors, the recipients and the beneficiaries: the people of Yellow Springs.

  • Village Mediation mends village fences

    By Lauren Heaton

    The Village Mediation Program was erected in the 1980s to bring interested parties together to talk out their differences.

  • Presbyterians, Methodists celebrate — Spirit of collaboration for Easter

    By Megan Bachman

    Celebrating the joining of their churches in worship during the upcoming Holy Week is the Reverend Aaron Maurice Saari of the First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs and the Reverend Sherri Blackwell of the Yellow Springs United Methodist Church. Joint activities, which are open to the public, are a “Jesus Christ Superstar” sing-a-long on Palm Sunday, a ritual Agape meal on Maundy Thursday and a candlelight service on Good Friday. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Only in Yellow Springs will this year’s Holy Week observance include a sing-along to “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

  • St. Paul’s Palm Sunday Service correction

    By YS News StaffApril 9, 2014

    Palm Sunday service on Saturday evening, April 12, at 5 p.m.

  • ESC focuses on early intervention

    By Carol SimmonsApril 3, 2014

    Friends Preschool Program teacher Janice Kumbusky serves lunch to students at Friends Care Community, including from left, Elaina Gilley, Cara Rodin-Brewer, Vann Gleadell, Donovan Cooney, Payton Mulley, David Torres. The local school will benefit from a grant the Greene County Educational Service Center received to focus on early childhood mental health intervention. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    “There’s a rising epidemic of anxiety,” fueled by a culture of fear and the ubiquitous presence of technology, says Timothy Callahan, a clinical psychologist and the director of mental health programming for the Greene County Educational Service Center (GCESC), which is based in Yellow Springs.

  • Bike meeting to be held

    By YS News StaffApril 2, 2014

    The YS Bicycle Enhancement Committee and Safe Routes to School will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 8, 7:30–8:45 p.m., at Mills Lawn.

  • Leading the college to wellness

    By Lauren HeatonMarch 27, 2014

    For the past six months there’s been a gaping hole at the back of Antioch College Curl Gym, where the pool used to be. But the renovation of the 85-year old building is closing in on a completion date sometime in July.

  • A rehab for the rehab

    By Lauren Heaton

    The Raptor Center is rebuilding its raptor cages, many of which are over 30 years old and no longer comply with regulations. (Photo by Suzanne Szempruch)

    The large cages for Glen Helen’s 30 permanent avian residents have served the Raptor Center for over 30 years. But the wire and wood are aging and have not met current regulation for some time.

  • VIDEO: 2014 Glen Helen pancake breakfast

    By Matt MindeMarch 16, 2014

    The Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center was full of volunteers and pancake eaters both young and old. (Photos by Matt Minde)

    After a two-year hiatus, the Glen Helen Association has brought back the beloved Pancake Breakfast.

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