Village Life Section :: Page 180

• 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.

• Council to consider senior housing plan

  By Lauren Heaton

  Over the summer Home, Inc. came to the Village with a plan to develop a senior apartment building on the Barr property, with the help of development partner, Buckeye Community Hope Foundation, based in Columbus.

• “Radio Rounds” takes an in-depth look at medicine

  By YS News StaffSeptember 14, 2011

  

  WYSO recently began airing “Radio Rounds,” a program produced and hosted by Wright State University students at the Boonshoft School of Medicine.

• Wright State clinic won’t return

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 9, 2011

  

  Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine leaders recently stated that the former Wright State family health clinic located in Yellow Springs will not return to the village due to a lack of fund-raising success.