Village Life Section :: Page 174

• Barr project receives its first approval

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 29, 2011

  A controversial land use issue packed the house at Village Council’s Sept. 19 meeting, with about 60 villagers attending as Council gave initial approval to the proposal to build affordable apartments for seniors on the Barr property downtown.

• ODH fines Friends Care for assault

  By Lauren Heaton

  Friends Care Community was investigated by the Ohio Department of Health, the center’s licensing body, whose regulators recommended the care center be fined $56,000 due to “conditions of jeopardy” that existed at the center.

• Tecumseh Land Trust to auction coveted surprises

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 27, 2011

  

  Use this weekend’s Tecumseh Land Trust auction to learn some Zumba, eat a gourmet meal, or get some weeding done.

• Ohio farm group to host fracking webinar

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 26, 2011

  

  The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association will host an educational webinar on the controversial subject of high-volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m. The internet broadcast, entitled “Fracking and Farmland: What Farmers and Landowers Need to Know About the Risks to Air, Water and Land,” will provide […]

• Senior Center Open House focuses on facility

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 23, 2011

  

  The community is invited to an open house at the Yellow Springs Senior Center on Sunday, Sept. 24, from 2–4 p.m. at the center to look closely at the facilities and consider future possibilities.

• Villagers Agna, Reynolds honored

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 22, 2011

  

  When villagers Mary Agna and Macy Reynolds are inducted next week into the Greene County Women’s Hall of Fame, they will be among 23 other local women to receive the honor.

• Historian H.W. Brands to speak at annual Leventhal lecture

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 20, 2011

  

  Historian, teacher and author H.W. Brands will speak about comparative American politics as part of The Wittenberg Series this Thursday, Sept. 22. The lecture is sponsored by the Leventhal family.

• Local vendors support the purchase of a service dog

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 16, 2011

  

  Area vendors are holding a fundraiser to help local resident Ashton Gueth get a service dog for his diabetes.

• Celebrate 145 years with Central Chapel A.M.E.

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 15, 2011

  

  The Central Chapel A.M.E Church is celebrating its 145th anniversary next weekend, Sept. 17–19, with a Friday evening banquet, Saturday afternoon picnic and two worship services on Sunday.

• Honoring AME’s rich local history

  By Megan Bachman

  

  In 1886, as the area’s educational opportunities continued to attract African Americans 23 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 13 families from Yellow Springs and Miami Township formed a local chapter of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.