Village Life Section :: Page 42

• Black-owned businesses in Yellow Springs: an oral history

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 11, 2022

  

  In decades past, a villager could walk through town and encounter a host of businesses owned by Black residents of Yellow Springs.

• The architecture of a village

  By Reilly DixonMarch 10, 2022

  

  The edifices that line the central throughways in the heart of the village form a patchwork of design and structure. The structures are quirky, asymmetrical and kaleidoscopic in color — the squat skyline, seldom rising above two stories, is jagged and sundry.

• My Name Is Iden | Relax baby, it’s just art

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “That is what art is at its core. It is the reception and processing of data by the artist. What we see and hear, what we smell and taste, what we feel is all just raw empirical data.”

• COVID Update | March 10, 2022

  By YS News Staff

  

  According to data disseminated by the Ohio Department of Health, COVID-19 numbers across the state continued to decline over the past full week, with Greene County numbers also reflecting a downward trend.

• Feminist Health Fund seeks donations

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 3, 2022

  

  For more than 40 years, the village-based nonprofit Feminist Health Fund has helped women around Greene County pay for a variety of health-related costs, funding everything from prescriptions to operations.

• COVID Update | March 3, 2022

  By YS News Staff

  

  As of last week, 10 of Ohio’s 88 counties dropped below the threshold for “high” COVID-19 incidence, measured at 100 or more new cases per 100,000 residents over two weeks.

• Meet the Glen Helen land manager

  By Reilly DixonMarch 2, 2022

  

  It’s a lot to look after: The Glen contains over 1,100 acres of land and a 15-mile network of footpaths. It’s home to deep-seated Indigenous histories, untold numbers of flora and fauna, geologies and ecologies, waterways and wildlife.

• COVID Update | Feb. 24, 2022

  By YS News StaffFebruary 25, 2022

  

  COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations continue to decline across Ohio from the mid-January peak fueled by the Omicron variant.

• Learning the nature of trauma

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Over the past several months, the News has covered several topics that have been at turns controversial, disturbing, painful and divisive for many members of the community.

• Fighting cold, one blanket at a time

  By YS News StaffFebruary 24, 2022

  

  Since October 2021, Villager Diana Castellan has made or mended and donated nearly 300 blankets with the support of a Blanket Fund, established last year at the YS United Methodist Church.