Village Life Section :: Page 161

• Spills threaten Springfield aquifer

  By Megan BachmanApril 25, 2013

  About three-and-a-half miles northwest of Springfield’s municipal well field is a landfill where 51,500 barrels of industrial waste were buried in the 1970s. Laid end-to-end, the barrels would stretch for 28 miles.

• Barr property burn delayed

  By Lauren HeatonApril 19, 2013

  

  The controlled burn of the Barr property on Xenia Avenue has been rescheduled for May 5.

• Spring has sprung: 2011 flashback…

  By Matt MindeApril 18, 2013

  Spring is in the air, on the ground and all around us.

• After ten years, Chen’s closes doors

  By Lauren Heaton

  After serving spring rolls, fried rice and General Tso’s chicken for nearly 10 years from a cozy cove on Dayton Street, Chen’s Asian Bistro closed its doors at the end of March. According to owner Jenny Chen, she and the property owner could not come to a lease agreement.

• Springfield vs. Yellow Springs — Comparing two waters

  By Megan Bachman

  Like Yellow Springs, Springfield was named by early settlers for its abundant underground water resources, which on the surface manifest as gushing springs. The groundwater aquifers tapped for drinking water by both communities remain highly productive today.

• Tar Hollow is a place for friends

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  When Corrie Van Ausdal attended Tar Hollow as a child with her family, she felt as if everyone in Yellow Springs was staying in the rustic cabins perched on a hillside at the state park south of Chillicothe.

• Judge for Struewings, again

  By Lauren Heaton

  A Greene County Common Pleas Court judge last week ruled in favor of Kenneth and Betheen Struewing in their case against the Village of Yellow Springs. The ruling upholds a decision rendered by a Greene County magistrate last April that the plaintiff’s property easement is valid, granting them one free Village water and sanitary sewer tap for their property on Hyde Road, which lies outside Village limits.

• Bahá’ís to screen talk by author of ‘The New Jim Crow’

  By Lauren HeatonApril 17, 2013

  

  A recent talk given by Michelle Alexander, acclaimed author of The New Jim Crow, will be re-played at the Yellow Springs Bahá’í Center tomorrow evening, April 19, at 7:30, followed by discussion and refreshments.

• What has changed since Newtown?

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 11, 2013

  The shooting tragedy Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., galvanized gun control advocates, who immediately called for stepped-up efforts on both the federal and state levels. It also galvanized those who support gun rights, who vowed to beat back attempts at new legislation. What has changed?

• Wellness about the daily mind

  By Lauren Heaton

  Local resident Carmen Milano believes that the village has many of the elements associated with good health and long life spans. And beginning this month, Wellness Month in Yellow Springs, she wants to make the village a place where people truly live better and longer.