Village Life Section :: Page 185

• Maybe we didn’t win, but we’re fun

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 27, 2011

  

  Glenwood Springs, Colo., won the “most fun” town honor as part of this summer’s Rand McNally “Best of the Road” contest. As one of six finalist towns for the “most fun” category, Yellow Springs was visited in late June by two traveling judges and fun was had by all.

• Cooling spots available for villagers

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 21, 2011

  

  During this week’s heat wave, villagers can go to the John Bryan Community Center, the Senior Center or the Yellow Springs Library if they have no air conditioning and need to get out of the heat.

• New wells for Vernay clean up

  By Lauren Heaton

  The two new capture wells that appeared at the Vernay Laboratories site on Dayton Street this summer are adding to the forces aimed at cleaning up the industrial contamination at the site.

• Exotic plants take root on US 68

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When a group of plant enthusiasts took over the Village property on U.S. 68 North that was formerly the home of Stutzman’s Nursery, the weeds were so high that the property’s dozen greenhouses were barely visible above them.

• Psychics see YS as healing center

  By Megan Bachman

  A Colorado couple — an astrologer and a clairvoyant — used tarot cards to confirm that the village was the right place to practice divination and healing.

• Yellow Springs quite the Experience

  By Aaron ZaremskyJuly 16, 2011

  

  The Cirque Carnival was a colorful spectacle of Yellow Springs creativity.

• DeWine dismisses drilling file

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 7, 2011

  This month Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released the findings of an investigation of a document containing fraudulent land leasing tactics for the purpose of gas drilling in the Yellow Springs area.

• Glen may become conservancy

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The Glen Helen Nature Preserve has been saved from development several times in its 82-year history.

• Fourth of July festivities

  By YS News StaffJuly 1, 2011

  Yellow Springs will celebrate Independence day with a parade, a patriotic band concert and, of course, fireworks.

• At t-ball, as tender as we can be

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 30, 2011

  I had a first last Friday night. When I pulled into Gaunt Park around 6:25 p.m. for our 6:30–8 p.m. evening of Perry League t-ball, there was not a soul in sight. Not a child on the diamond. Not a parent in the bleachers. Not a car in the parking lot.