Village Life Section :: Page 196

• YSKP pulls for summer season

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 24, 2011

  

  Every summer for the past 15 years, YS Kids Playhouse, the little theater that could, has put on at least one musical and often two original productions. But what if suddenly there wasn’t a YSKP summer season?

• Services to citizens vary greatly by community

  By Diane Chiddister

  Yellow Springs residents do pay more to live in the village, according to a 2008 cost of living comparison of school and municipal income tax, property tax and utility costs in area towns.

• More cost, more services in Village

  By Diane Chiddister

  Conventional wisdom says that Yellow Springs is an expensive place to live relative to other area towns, and statistics bear out that assumption.

• CHART: Census results show population and diversity declines

  By Megan BachmanMarch 20, 2011

  

  Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet that has left the village with 24.6 percent fewer residents than in 1970, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures.

• Free youth programs at Glen Helen Pancake Breakfast

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2011

  

  Glen Helen naturalists are offering free youth programs throughout the 36th Annual Pancake Breakfast.

• Roosevelt speaks on schools crisis

  By Matt MindeMarch 17, 2011

  

  Public education in America is in dire straits, and people of all political persuasions need to put aside differences and find solutions together, according to Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt.

• Census shows resident drop

  By Megan Bachman

  If estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau hold, the population in the Village of Yellow Springs may have declined by 12.9 percent from 2000 to 2009, to 3,275 residents.

• A weekend of wellness, healing in the village

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Learn new practices for optimal health. Refresh your body and renew your spirit after a long winter. Meditate, do yoga, make art, use herbs and explore the unconscious.

• Young minds, bodies take to yoga in the schools

  By Sehvilla MannMarch 3, 2011

  

  A group of 19 students sits cross-legged on purple mats in Sarah Lowe’s classroom at McKinney Middle School; they’ll be spending the next 50 minutes practicing yoga.

• Friends plans to sell Barr property

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 24, 2011

  This week a Friends Care Community task force announced plans to sell the Barr property, which the Morgan Family Foundation had gifted to the care center in November.