Village Life Section :: Page 172

• YS News Water Survey Results

  By Megan BachmanMay 17, 2012

  

  See the results from a recent Yellow Springs News online survey of 205 municipal water customers.

• Tackling hard water, hard choices

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 10, 2012

  Of all the critical decisions made by municipal governments, perhaps no decisions are more important than those concerning water.

• New pastor leads King center

  By Matt Minde

  

  This month in separate but coordinated moves, Derrick Weston was hired as the new pastor of the First Presbyterian Church as well as the new director of Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom.

• Senior housing off, for now

  By Megan Bachman

  An effort to build affordable senior housing on the Barr property downtown was thwarted last month when the project was denied its request for 2012 federal tax credits. However, project organizers consider the set-back only a delay, as they plan to re-apply in 2013.

• Johnson teaches power of the stars

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Understanding the energy between the planets and how they affect us can help us to live more positive lives. That is Jennifer Johnson’s belief, and the reason she got interested in astrology 20 years ago.

• Green space funds waning

  By Megan Bachman

  A state program used to preserve area farmland for a decade has been halted, hindering a local land trust’s efforts to protect land from development.

• Clean-up Week starts Monday

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  The annual Yellow Springs Clean-up Week will take place this year from Monday, May 14, through Friday, May 18. Villagers can put most unwanted household items out by the curb, and they’ll be hauled away.

• Life of a century, and some change

  By YS News Staff

  

  Herbert Pencil, Friends Care Center’s oldest male resident, was born in North Hampton, Ohio, on Sept. 25, 1909. On that day, America had 46 states, and William Howard Taft was the country’s 27th president.

• Coast-to-coast walkers come to the village

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 9, 2012

  

  Kait and John Seyal visited Yellow Springs last weekend with their rescue dogs on their walk across the country.

• The village’s own Rocket Man

  By Megan BachmanMay 3, 2012

  

  Jake Freeman’s work is not rocket science — but it comes pretty close. The local aerospace engineer designs experiments to work in microgravity some 200 miles above the Earth.