Village Life Section :: Page 177

• Plan dropped; wellhead likely safe

  By Lauren HeatonMay 31, 2012

  Sometime in 1988, a host of volatile organic chemicals were found deep in the aquifer that feeds the Village’s municipal drinking water wells. Around the same time, the federal government mandated safeguarding the quality of the groundwater.

• Borer likely dooms ash trees

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 24, 2012

  

  Many majestic canopy trees around the village are ash trees. And if they’re not already infested with the Emerald Ash Borer beetle, they will be soon. Within a few years, they’ll be dead.

• Villagers weigh in on their water

  By Megan Bachman

  Ask villagers about their experience with Yellow Springs water and the stories will flow.

• Musical event benefits cancer patients near and far

  By Lauren ShowsMay 23, 2012

  

  Peach’s Grill will host a day’s worth of music on Saturday, May 26, noon to 2 a.m., to benefit local resident Jennie Hudson, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Hudson will also be collecting donations for her participation in Relay For Life, which raises funds for cancer patients, on July 13. Said Hudson: “I’m not the only one going through this.”

• 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.