Village Life Section :: Page 45

• 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.

• Community, biodiversity through seeds

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 19, 2022

  

  Seed steward Florentina Rodriguez debuted the Yellow Springs Community Seed Library last weekend, aiming to make that power available to everyone.

• COVID Update | Feb. 17, 2022

  By YS News StaffFebruary 17, 2022

  

  The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s consideration — and anticipated approval — this month of a COVID-19 vaccine for young children, aged 6 months through 4 years old, has been put on hold, the FDA announced Friday, Feb. 11.

• Glen Helen trails open Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday due to hazards

  By YS News StaffFebruary 14, 2022

  

  The trails of Glen Helen Nature Preserve will be closed temporarily Sunday, Feb. 20, and Monday, Feb. 21.

• My Name Is Iden | Smell This

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “The particular time that has set my neurons churning is, of course, that interminable period between Thanksgiving and the climax of the holidays, Present Time.”