Village Life Section :: Page 162

• 2012 Fourth of July festivities

  By Matt MindeJuly 4, 2012

  Yellow Springs will celebrate Independence day with a parade, a patriotic band concert and, of course, fireworks.

• Villagers take pride in their town

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 1, 2012

  

  About 70 villagers came out yesterday to celebrate the opening of Yellow Springs’ first gay pride weekend.

• Open burn ban instituted

  By Lauren ShowsJune 29, 2012

  Due to the current dry conditions in the area, a ban on open burning has been issued throughout Miami Township effective today, June 28, through Sunday, July 1. Open burning of field, yard, forest and other agricultural waste is hereby prohibited. This ban includes brush piles, bonfires, fire pits, chimineas and campfires. In addition, extreme […]

• Show your Pride this weekend

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Yellow Springs Pride will hold its first annual gay pride weekend this Saturday and Sunday.

• 2012 Cost of Living update—The village by the numbers

  By Lauren HeatonJune 28, 2012

  The 2012 Yellow Springs Cost of Living Report was completed this spring by Wright State University’s Center for Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) and paid for by the James A. McKee Association.

• Fracking forum to push for YS ban

  By Megan BachmanJune 26, 2012

  

  Environmental experts will share ways Yellow Springs can avoid contamination from oil and gas drilling and fracking waste wells at a forum on Saturday.

• McKee group updates examination of cost of living

  By Lauren HeatonJune 22, 2012

  

  The 2012 Yellow Springs Cost of Living Study looks at how the village has changed demographically and economically over the past 30 years.

• Reading a summer portal for all ages

  By Lauren HeatonJune 21, 2012

  

  How can a person meet the woman behind Tiffany’s glass, learn Arabic, relive the Apollo 11 lunar landing, unravel the secret plot against an ophanage in Botswana and travel through time and space in one summer?

• GMHA gardens on chopping block

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Patricia High is dejected because she has until July 1 to transplant most of her beautiful garden at her Lawson Place unit, or the Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority will remove the plantings.

• Stalled greenspace funds released

  By Megan BachmanJune 20, 2012

  

  Thanks to the tireless efforts of Krista Magaw of the Tecumseh Land Trust, Don Hollister of Ohio League of Conservation Voters and several other environmental groups, Clean Ohio’s open space and agricultural easement purchase programs are once again fully funded.