Village Life Section :: Page 201

• Tour to focus on the creative process

  By Megan BachmanOctober 7, 2010

  For the last seven years, the annual October Studio Tour has flooded the town with art buyers, boosting the local tourist economy and supporting its artists.

• Autumn harvest

  By Aaron ZaremskyOctober 5, 2010

  

  The farmers markets are still happening every Thursday, 2 to 6 p.m at the South Town Market in the General Dollar parking lot and Saturday from 7 am until noon at the Kings Yard and the Corner Cone parking lots with plenty of autumn produce.

• Why they’re dahlias, dahlink, dahlias

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 24, 2010

  

  Several Yellow Springers devoted themselves to their dahlia patches this year and produced some breathtaking flowers. Even if these dahlias didn’t win ribbons, they certainly won hearts.

• AUM to hold forum to aid understanding

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 23, 2010

  The recent controversy over locating an Islamic center in downtown Manhattan weighs heavily on Antioch University Midwest Professor Jim Malarkey, an anthropologist who spent eight years living in Islamic countries. To Malarkey, the controversy reflects an unfortunate American tendency to fear those we don’t understand.

• Hello, dahlias! Looking swell, dahlias

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Spring may be most flowers’ idea of a good time, but for those meticulously cultivated, brilliantly colored, dinner-plate-sized darlings known as dahlias, late August to mid-September is when the real party starts. And dahlias know how to have a good time.

• Three bags full

  By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 21, 2010

  

  The Wool Gathering at Young’s Jersey Dairy gave some fascinating insight into the art of sheep shearing last Saturday.

• Land trust supporters bid to save land

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 20, 2010

  

  At the sixth annual Tecumseh Land Trust auction on Friday night, more than 200 farmland supporters bid on donated products and services, with all proceeds going to support the land trust.

• Eat, Pray, Love

  By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 17, 2010

  

  Monica Hasek organized a Yellow Springs Version of the memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” last Thursday with the help of Yoga Springs Studio, the Winds Cafe and the Little Art.

• Mediation program hopes to expand—A person-to-person peace

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 16, 2010

  When conflict arises in the village, one local organization stands ready to reconcile differences and make peace — the Village Mediation Program. For 21 years, the program’s trained volunteer facilitators have mediated crises free of charge between neighbors, families and businesses, saving villagers thousands of dollars in legal fees and the frustration of prolonged disputes.

• Shower of Stoles to exhibit at Presbyterian church

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 15, 2010

  

  Drawing attention to the plight of gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender people of faith around the country, next weekend the Yellow Springs First Presbyterian Church will host a national exhibit of liturgical stoles representing 1,000 homosexual clergy members of 32 religious denominations, many who have been excluded from serving in their church due to their sexual orientation.