Village Life Section :: Page 172

• Lawson gardeners picket Greene Met

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 25, 2012

  With a little over a week to go before gardens at the Lawson Place public housing unit are permanently removed, residents and local allies picketed in front of Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Xenia office on Friday.

• A weekend of wellness and art healing

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 21, 2012

  

  With hopes of re-igniting regional interest in the town’s alternative therapies, holistic health practitioners and artists have teamed up to put on this weekend’s Wellness Experience.

• YS to celebrate International Day of Peace

  By YS News StaffSeptember 19, 2012

  

  All over the world, people are getting ready to celebrate the International Day of Peace on Friday, Sept. 21. Yellow Springs is no exception, and the village will be celebrating with a few special events of its own.

• Local residents buy Barr property

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 12, 2012

  

  Last week two local residents purchased the Barr property located on the corner of Xenia Avenue and Limestone Street.

• Villagers to protest garden removal

  By YS News StaffSeptember 4, 2012

  

  After two months of attempted negotiation with Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority, the residents of Lawson Place are scheduled to lose their gardens on Monday, Oct. 1. To protest the removal of these gardens, a group of villagers is planning a rally and march on Sunday, Sept. 9

• Photo contest deadline soon; but be safe!

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 31, 2012

  

  The deadline for the Tecumseh Land Trust Sunflower Photo Competition is Sept. 14. However, those slowing down to look at the sunflowers in the field just north of Yellow Springs should do so with care, as two recent accidents have been linked to sunflower-gawkers.

• West Nile issue: to spray or not?

  By Megan BachmanAugust 30, 2012

  Last Thursday about 6:30 a.m, as many villagers still slept, a Greene County Combined Health District truck rolled slowly through a neighborhood in southern Yellow Springs spraying a fine mist of insecticides.

• Book mobile has kids partying on the road to literacy

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 23, 2012

  

  The Greene County Library bookmobile comes to town.

• Are you in the Redbook?

  By YS News StaffAugust 20, 2012

  

  Each year, the Yellow Springs News produces a local, community-oriented phone directory, with business and residential listings called the Redbook. A RESIDENTIAL LISTING IS FREE.

• The Little Library that could

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 16, 2012

  

  Many positive things can be said about libraries, including that they can’t be too small and a town can’t have too many.