Village Life Section :: Page 14

• Annual sugar shack tour planned

  By YS News StaffFebruary 24, 2024

  

  Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, will host its annual sugar shack tour Sunday, Feb. 25, 2–4 p.m., at Flying Mouse Farms, 100 E. Fairfield Pike.

• Down to Earth | Bobcats and coyotes and foxes: Oh, yes!

  By Guest ContributorFebruary 23, 2024

  

  “Their presence signals that the environment is healthy enough to support these creatures, which they in turn help to maintain through their regulation of prey populations.”

• Local, state deer population mounts

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 20, 2024

  

  Yellow Springs resident and professor of biological sciences at Wright State University Don Cipollini told the News last week that there are currently around 800,000 deer in the state.

• ODNR to lead annual winter hike

  By YS News StaffFebruary 9, 2024

  

  Naturalists with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will lead the annual six-mile winter hike through John Bryan State Park and Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve on Saturday, Feb. 10.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Hunkering down in the Hall

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “I will head out to the Hall and get a fire going, then will travel back and forth to keep an eye on both Karen and the fire.”

• 2024 Adventure Summit | A dirtbag climber’s tale

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 7, 2024

  

  Local resident Molly Finch’s multiyear journey of mountainous highs and dumpster lows is the topic of a public presentation at Wright State University on Saturday, Feb. 10, 4:45 p.m., as a part of Five River MetroParks and the university’s Adventure Summit.

• News from the Past: January 2024

  By Guest ContributorFebruary 1, 2024

  

  “Several dozen villagers and students from Yellow Springs High School and Antioch College assembled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to protest Operation Desert Storm, which began in full mid-January 1991.”

• After Council, life goes on for Marianne MacQueen

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 31, 2024

  

  Since Village Council reconvened in 2024 without Marianne MacQueen, the lifelong Yellow Springs resident has spent her January days looking back and looking ahead — even beyond her new aquamarine workplace.

• Take a hike with ‘The Naturalist’ on Channel 5

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 29, 2024

  

  Outfitted with a GoPro camera and decades’ worth of knowledge to share, local resident Don Cipollini brings viewers along on journeys that delve into the natural world on “The Naturalist” — the newest original program to be broadcast by Community Access Yellow Springs Channel 5.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Occupational hazards

  By Guest ContributorJanuary 21, 2024

  

  “This is why we bought Patterdale Hall, so we can exist in the now and enjoy every second of it.”