Village Life Section :: Page 208

• Board, not bored

  By YS News StaffApril 9, 2009

  

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• Small businesses weather economy

  By Diane Chiddister

  The health of the local economy is tied not only to the village’s largest employers, but also to the many smaller ones that together contribute substantially to Village coffers. With the many entrepreneurs educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs has a rich legacy of fostering start-ups, and that small-business diversity is a critical part of the stability of the local economy, according to Village Manager Mark Cundiff.

• Gardens yield more than green

  By Brooke Bryan

  

  Some say starting a garden is an act of faith, a passive act done best when the moon is right. Others, like a new local community gardening group, plan for a good crop by building beds of e-mail list serves and germinating ideas at community potlucks.

  This loosely networked bunch of area gardening enthusiasts and hopeful amateurs has scattered seeds of intention across the village and Miami Township that just might sprout up in the form of shared gardens, seed swaps and educational activities near you.

• Little folk dancing

  By Lauren HeatonApril 2, 2009

  

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• Springfield man robs US Bank

  By Lauren Heaton

  Due largely to the testimony of a village resident and information from a security tape, on Tuesday, March 31, Yellow Springs police arrested a Springfield man who confessed to having robbed US Bank last week.

• Way opening for family in YS

  By Susan Gartner

  

  Four years ago, Tony Novello was a visitor to Ohio, en route to a golf tournament with a colleague from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. While his friend drove, the Maryland resident took in the sights.

• First fling of spring

  By YS News StaffMarch 26, 2009

  

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• New rules to help regulate farmer’s market

  By Lauren Heaton

  In an effort to better organize and provide security for the Yellow Springs Farmer’s Market in Kings Yard, this year market organizers have for the first time created a set of guidelines for vendors. Among the new rules are that vendors must apply for and pay for a space, they must have liability insurance, and they are limited to selling items that were either grown or made in their home county.

• Women voice triumphs, traumas, common struggles — out loud

  By YS News Staff

  

  One woman speaks of her individual experience of growing up in the late 1920s. And as she voices her testimonial, other women recognize in her story, a shared struggle to be heard and to be empowered.

• Entirely ‘Too Much Fun’

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2009

  

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