Village Life Section :: Page 77

• Four decades of YS ball drops

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 26, 2019

  

  When Yellow Springs New Year’s Eve revelers descend on downtown streets near midnight Tuesday, Dec. 31, to mark the passing of 2019 into 2020 — and the start of a new decade — they will be participating in a local tradition that is marking its 40th outing this holiday. Read the history of the ball drop after the jump.

• Light walk: a one-time village tradition is revived

  By YS News StaffDecember 19, 2019

  

  Villagers Sommer McGuire and Lisa Kreeger caroled from Kings Yard to the downtown Christmas tree during the first annual Luminary Walk and Community Carol on Saturday evening, Dec. 14.

• YSEA carries on ‘quiet work’

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  YSEA exists so that those who need a little extra help to make rent, avoid a utility shut-off, pay for a medication or buy groceries when food is running low have a place to turn

• ‘Music in Friendship’— 31 years of Heartstrings

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 12, 2019

  

  Heartstrings, the all-women traditional musical ensemble that includes Goldstein, Burkholder, Carol Van Ausdal and Linda Scutt, will perform their annual holiday concert at the YS Arts Council on Saturday, Dec. 14, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

• Guinness record a virtual triumph

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Yellow Springs resident Jordan Gray  was out to set the Guinness World Records title for the largest augmented reality scavenger hunt in one week — the first of its kind.

• ‘Music in Friendship’— 31 years of Heartstrings

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 11, 2019

  

  Heartstrings, the all-women traditional musical ensemble that includes Goldstein, Burkholder, Carol Van Ausdal and Linda Scutt, will perform their annual holiday concert at the YS Arts Council on Saturday, Dec. 14, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

• Help for the holidays

  By YS News StaffDecember 9, 2019

  

  As the weather turns colder and the holidays come nearer, community members may find that they need some assistance, whether with food, utility payments or with buying holiday gifts. Listed here are several available resources; community members not in need of these services might also choose to donate items or money to keep the services available.

• Village meeting on Vernay cleanup— Water, utilities are worries

  By Megan BachmanDecember 5, 2019

  

  How good is the current proposal to clean up the Vernay Laboratories site? How much contamination is there? Are municipal water supplies protected? What can be done with the land when it is cleaned up? Those were a few of the questions asked at a public meeting on Thursday, Nov. 21, on Vernay’s most recent plan to clean up contamination at its former local rubber plant on Dayton Street.

• New pastor at historic Central Chapel AME church

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  One of Yellow Springs’ oldest churches has an energetic new pastor. Reverend Morné Meyer, 38, was appointed to Central Chapel AME Church last month at the historic 154-year-old church.

• #YSGivingTuesday today

  By YS News StaffDecember 3, 2019

  

  The Yellow Springs Community Foundation and the YS Giving Tuesday Committee are spearheading the fourth annual #YSGivingTuesday event today, Dec. 3.