Village Life Section :: Page 28

• Yellow Springs nonprofit Agraria announces furloughs, hiatus

  By YS News StaffFebruary 23, 2023

  Yellow Springs nonprofit and educational farm Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice has announced a hiatus of its operations and programs effective Thursday, Feb. 16., and all employees — about 30 — have been put on a three-month furlough.

• My Name Is Iden | How to say I love you

  By Iden CrockettFebruary 17, 2023

  

  “Love is the center point from which we chart all other human emotion. We owe it to each other, and to ourselves, to recapture and appreciate anew the great gift it is to be able to give and receive love.”

• Building Community | Sharing a lifetime of soaring

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  During a recent interview with the News, village residents and co-founders of The Jael Group, or TJG, Steven and Jalyn Roe, often mentioned a spiritual concept related to “the way”: an opening, path, direction, even a process that at times means finding “a way out of no way.”

• Little Peace Conferences envision post-war peace

  By Guest ContributorFebruary 15, 2023

  

  At a time of war, a small Ohio village and the college within it also thought of peace. These thoughts focused on how things should be once the Second World War ended and to be ready for it when it was over.

• Unsolicited Opinions | ‘The fierce urgency of now’

  By Jessica ThomasFebruary 13, 2023

  

  “How quickly can we reimagine what accountability looks like? How many more hashtags do we need before a true reckoning happens?”

• A tale of two pilgrims

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 6, 2023

  

  For longtime Yellow Springs residents Diana Glawe and Emily Foubert, the famed Camino de Santiago — Europe’s longest and most storied pilgrimage route — offered lessons in love, loss and letting go.

• Down to Earth | Fall webworms, friend or foe?

  By Guest ContributorJanuary 30, 2023

  

  There is a spectacle that occurs in summer each year around Yellow Springs that generates both amazement and concern among citizens and visitors of this town. No, it’s not Street Fair; it’s the return of fall webworms to their local perches.

• My Name Is Iden | ‘Best self’ over being ‘the best’

  By Iden CrockettJanuary 29, 2023

  

  The new year is upon us. A time for reflection and, for many of us, resolution. This is the time for getting to work on being our “best selves.”

• What a card!

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 23, 2023

  

  Considered one of the world’s foremost and talented magicians, David Williamson dazzled a capacity crowd of villagers at Emporium Wines & Underdog Cafe on Saturday evening, Jan. 14.

• 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Day | ‘The fierce urgency of now’

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Around 200 villagers assembled on Jan. 16, to contemplate Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to action through the “fierce urgency of now,” in observation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.