Village Life Section :: Page 54

• COVID-19 update

  By Megan BachmanJuly 29, 2021

  

  COVID-19 update for the week of July 26, 2021

• Plea deal reached in Clark stabbing death

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A Yellow Springs native accused in the stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal with the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office.

• COVID-19 Update

  By Megan BachmanJuly 28, 2021

  

  After a three-month decline, COVID-19 cases in Ohio and Greene County increased over the week. It follows a national trend of growing caseloads, which is associated with the much more contagious strain of COVID-19 known as the Delta variant.

• Love and energy at Perry League

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 26, 2021

  

  “You might have a nice little laugh and maybe a bit of fun, a few moments of joy, should you join us at Gaunt Park. These kids and their families are terrific people full of love and energy, goodness and grace — so why don’t you treat yourself? Come on out. We’d love to have you.”

• Down to Earth — Recycling confusion

  By YS News StaffJuly 25, 2021

  

  The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen as one of the world’s biggest environmental hazards. It pollutes as it is produced, through the extraction of fossil fuels, and no sooner than it is used, it pollutes again.

• Appreciative Living — What are you thinking?

  By YS News StaffJuly 21, 2021

  

  Metacognitive thinking, according to one definition, is an awareness of one’s own thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them.

• Mullin takes helm at the Yellow Springs Senior Center

  By YS News StaffJuly 17, 2021

  

  Local resident Caroline Mullin recently was named the executive director of the Yellow Springs Senior Center, or YSSC, and she brings with her a vision for the center as a place for resources and meaningful engagement for people of all ages.

• Board of Zoning Appeals says no to Agraria barn rental

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 16, 2021

  

  School group visits are OK. Renting out a historic barn for weddings and other social or community events is not. Setting up a farm store or stand is fine. Renting a conference room to other groups is questionable.

• Perry League — Bright-eyed and back at the tee

  By YS News StaffJuly 15, 2021

  

  Tie-dyed T-shirts and joyfully shrieking kids can only mean one thing: Perry League T-ball, with Coach Jimmy, is back again after a year’s absence.

• Little Thunders — Advice, medicine for Antioch graduates

  By YS News StaffJuly 12, 2021

  

  “And so I offer you — graduates of Antioch — advice grounded in my Anishinaabe teachings of a way forward in all four directions. East is the direction of beginnings, and the teachings from the east remind us that all life is spirit — the wind, earth, fire, and water, all those things that are alive with energy and movement.”