Village Life Section :: Page 158

• Friends shifts housing plan

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 17, 2013

  

  When Friends Care Community built the first independent living homes on the Herman Street campus about 10 years ago, the hope was that the units would give seniors an option for maintenance-free living near the services needed to age in place.

• Fighting the bedbug bite

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Yellow Springs, located in a region known as a bedbug hotspot, is not immune from the small blood sucking-parasite. Read more on how to prevent an infestation.

• Yellow Springers take a first look at Obamacare

  By Megan BachmanOctober 10, 2013

  On Tuesday, Oct. 1, a newly-created healthcare marketplace opened with a slew of new private health plans for individuals to choose from, along with government subsidies to make them affordable. From his initial research, Chris Glaser could save a lot of money.

• Yellow Springs art and health event takes donations for domestic violence shelters

  By YS News StaffOctober 8, 2013

  

  The Culpeper House will host an open house and artist reception on Friday, Oct. 18, 6–8 p.m.

• Solar tour continues this weekend

  By Megan BachmanOctober 4, 2013

  

  The annual Ohio Solar Tour will continue through the weekend, Friday–Sunday, Oct. 4–6 with five sites in and around the village.

• YSI Inc. immerses kids in water

  By Megan BachmanOctober 3, 2013

  

  On a recent field trip, the Mills Lawn Elementary School fifth and sixth graders spent a day at YSI Inc. (a Xylem brand), learning about local and global water issues, and bounced a giant model of earth to symbolize the need for everyone to chip in to save the planet.

• EPA cites Morris Bean for discharge

  By Megan BachmanOctober 2, 2013

  Morris Bean & Company will soon bid out a project to fill in a sinkhole at its Hyde Road plant after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency cited the company for releasing industrial wastewater into the sinkhole and potentially contaminating groundwater.

• Dr. Van Ausdal hangs up his stethoscope

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 26, 2013

  

  Dr. Paul Van Ausdal is retiring after 34 years at Community Physicians, now a part of the Kettering Health Network. He will be feted at an open house at his office on Friday, Sept. 27, from 2 to 5 p.m. The public is invited.

• Yellow Springs Healers embrace holistic approach

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 19, 2013

  ust as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to “tune in, turn on, drop out,” local holistic health practitioners Douglas Klappich and Deborah McGee have some advice today for health and healing: “Tune in, tone up, bliss out.”

• Yellow Springs healers embrace holistic approach

  By Megan Bachman

  Just as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to “tune in, turn on, drop out,” a couple of self-described “New Age flower children” local holistic health practitioners have some advice today for health and healing.