Village Life Section :: Page 57

• Amid pandemic, Friends Care Community’s ho-ho-holidays

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 4, 2021

  

  The holidays are festive, if lower-key, at Friends Care Community this year. Visitation has been restricted at the facility since March.

• The Briar Patch— Mortgaging humanity: Property values and the life of Wheeling Gaunt

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  There is clear distinction between Gaunt’s humanitarian-based business structure, and the economic system of slavery upon which our mortgage system is based. Bundling enslaved people — captives — into securities had benefits for the slave owner.

• Wheeling Gaunt’s legacy lives on

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 1, 2021

  

  Wheeling Gaunt’s generosity perseveres in a 126-year-old tradition of the delivery of flour to local widows and widowers at the holidays — a stipulation in Gaunt’s will when he bequeathed the land that is now Gaunt Park to the Village.

• 2020 in six words or one picture

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 31, 2020

  

  This year, as in years past, the YS News asked its readers to write a little something in response to a question about the year that’s ending.

• Christmas eve outside at the First Presbyterian Church

  By Matt MindeDecember 30, 2020

  

  Visual artist Brian Millar created a creche in front of the First Presbyterian Church, which houses figures of the holy family made by his mother almost 70 years ago.

• News from the Past

  By YS News StaffDecember 29, 2020

  

  In last week’s “News from the Past” column, contributing writer Don Hollister did another dive into the YS News archives and compiled some of the more compelling headlines that occurred in past Decembers.

• Spirits of Christmas Past

  By YS News StaffDecember 26, 2020

  

  In the spirit of the holidays, the Yellow Springs News did a deep dive into the News archives and unearthed a bevy of fun holiday photos from past decades.

• 30 years of letters to Santa

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 24, 2020

  

  For nearly all of the last three decades, former villager Peggy Barker has compiled these letters as Santa’s assistant. She said she took up the job in 1989 when she found herself with some extra time on her hands.

• The Legendary Lights at Clifton Mill get second place in national contest

  By Reilly DixonDecember 23, 2020

  

  For the third year in a row, the Legendary Lights at the Historic Clifton Mill were among the most impressive in the country, according to the results of a national competition. Clifton Mill won second place in the best public holiday lights category in USA Today’s annual “10Best” competition.

• Caring for COVID’s sickest patients

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 22, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs resident Chasilee Crawford is an ICU, or intensive care unit, nurse at Springfield Regional Medical Center. She volunteered to work in the hospital’s designated COVID-19 specific ICU when it was formed last March, and has been caring for patients who are severely ill with the disease ever since.