Village Life Section :: Page 17

• 2023 Yellow Springs Pride Festival

  By Reilly DixonJune 30, 2023

  

  On Saturday, June 24, thousands of kaleidoscopic revelers — villagers and visitors alike — attended the 2023 Yellow Springs Pride Festival.

• Perry League’s noteworthy legacy

  By Guest ContributorJune 29, 2023

  

  Three years after Donald Perry’s death in 1967, the baseball league he founded was renamed Perry League in his honor. His legacy has been going strong for more than half a century.

• Air quality plummets in Midwest, haze returns to Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonJune 28, 2023

  

  On Wednesday morning, June 28, the air quality index, or AQI, for Yellow Springs hit 211, classified as “very unhealthy conditions” — the highest it’s been all month.

• Building Community | Baseball fields renamed after Davenport sisters

  By Jessica ThomasJune 27, 2023

  

  Jackie, who died in March 2023 and Yvonne, who died in February 2021, were integral in creating a space for women in Yellow Springs’ recreational baseball league and were fierce advocates for athletic programs throughout the village.

• Free lunch program feeds local youth

  By Lauren ShowsJune 26, 2023

  

  The event marked the second Friday during which volunteers from the local Pleasant Grove Missionary Church set up on the porch of the library to hand out sandwiches, chips, fruit and water to kids at no cost.

• Yellow Springs garden tour to benefit Children’s Center

  By YS News StaffJune 25, 2023

  

  The 2023 Yellow Springs Bloom and Bounty Garden Tour will be Sunday, June 25, 1–5 p.m., rain or shine.

• Yellow Springs to celebrate Pride

  By YS News StaffJune 23, 2023

  

  The festivities kick off at 11 a.m. on the downtown block near Mills Lawn Elementary School and Jackson Lytle and Lewis with vendors, food trucks, community resources and more.

• Perry League | T-ball nights full of surprises

  By Guest Contributor

  

  The local T-ball league has now encompassed more than five decades and endeared itself to the hearts of many children and families in the village.

• Unsolicited Opinions | Keep racist items out of stores

  By Jessica ThomasJune 22, 2023

  

  “If Yellow Springs is to be a welcoming village, we have to work together to reject stereotypes of BIPOC and other minority groups.”

• Perry League | Magical T-ball season starts anew

  By Guest ContributorJune 17, 2023

  

  About five dozen children responded to the 6 p.m. whistle. You could sense the magic in the children’s faces as they anticipated play. I remembered just how fun and worthwhile these games can be in those first few moments while children line up and wait.