Village Life Section :: Page 60

• COVID-19 vaccination sites in Greene County

  By YS News StaffJanuary 16, 2021

  

  An excerpt of COVID-19 vaccination facilities in Greene County, from an extensive list available on the Ohio Department of Health website.

• COVID-19 update— Older residents next for vaccination

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 15, 2021

  

  On Friday, Jan. 8, Friends Care Community celebrated the arrival of pharmacy staff from CVS, there to administer the first round of COVID-19 vaccines.

• 2020 Year in Review: Feature Stories

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 11, 2021

  

  2020 was anything but ordinary. This year’s feature stories mostly covered all of the unique ways villagers coped with — and still managed to thrive despite — the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

• 2020 Year in Review: Top Stories

  By YS News StaffJanuary 6, 2021

  

  2020 was an eventful and newsworthy year — especially in Yellow Springs. Villagers weathered the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, witnessed the transfer of ownership of Glen Helen, endured a stressful and unique election season and so much more.

• 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.