Village Life Section :: Page 174

• Canadian David Suzuki speaks after film— Environmental icon comes to YS

  By Megan BachmanApril 12, 2012

  

  If you had one last lecture to give, what would you say? In the film Force of Nature, Dr. David Suzuki, known as the godfather of the environmental movement in Canada, delivers a legacy lecture indicting humanity for undermining the planet’s life support systems.

• Water pollution we all create— Catching up with runaway runoff

  By Lauren Heaton

  There is a gully in the Glen at the northeast edge of the village, not far from the Glen Helen Building. When it rains, water comes rushing into the Glen, carrying with it the runoff from the village, its street oils, its lawn chemicals, and its trash.

• Funderburg Farm— Asking horses to trust people

  By Lauren HeatonApril 5, 2012

  

  At the place where east Hyde Road ends and unspoiled farmland begins, Pat Funderburg has his own practice of asking, not telling, and working with instead of against, the horses on his family’s farm.

• Politics divide local Catholics

  By Diane Chiddister

  Recently, some parishioners have made public their distress that St. Paul Catholic Church has become more politically conservative and at the same time less welcoming to Yellow Springs residents.

• Toxic sites are under control

  By Lauren Heaton

  Over the past two decades, Vernay, along with Morris Bean & Company, YSI, Inc. and the Village Water Reclamation plant, have all been point sources of pollution to local ground and surface water. But through their efforts and work with the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies, all four point sources of area water pollution have made strides to control and mitigate the damage they caused to the local watershed.

• Interim chief comes out of retirement

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Former Beavercreek Police Chief Arthur Scott is the Yellow Springs Interim Police Chief, taking the place of John Grote, who retired last week.

• Bender honored for WWII service

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 22, 2012

  

  As a boy growing up in Mississippi, Jonas Bender knew about racism and segregation. But living in “the oasis of integration” that was the college town of Tougaloo, Bender knew about racism mainly from other people’s stories.

• Spring has officially, and very quickly, arrived

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Spring has sprung three to four weeks early this year, as evidenced by the billowy white pear trees downtown, which most often bloom in mid April.

• Real watershed moments for area

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Where Yellow Springs begins and ends is defined by clear political boundaries. But the village also exists within an ecosystem that has boundaries of its own. An important one is its watershed, an area of land that drains into a common waterway.

• Glen adjusts course of events

  By Lauren Heaton

  The annual Glen Helen pancake breakfast is one of several that Glen leaders are evaluating this year in order to streamline their activities