Village Life Section :: Page 79

• Higher Education — cancellations

  By YS News StaffMarch 12, 2020

  

  A listing of closures, cancelations and reschedulings of institutions of higher education.

• Nonprofit organizations — cancellations

  By YS News Staff

  

  A listing of closures, cancelations and reschedulings of community nonprofit organizations and events.

• Businesses — cancellations

  By YS News Staff

  

  A listing of businesses and events which have closed, been canceled or rescheduled.

• Encyclopedia highlights Black lives

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A “labor of love” — as well as a labor of memory, representation and community — hit a significant milestone in February with the completion and release of the first physical edition of “Blacks in Yellow Springs: A Community Encyclopedia.”

• Local food conference to return

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Successful farm-to-school programs. Stories from local farmers coping with climate change. Strategies for turning conventional farms organic. Those topics and more will be explored at “Growing Green 2020: Investing in Conservation and Local Food,” a joint conference of the Tecumseh Land Trust and Community Solutions.

• 30 years of Feast for Friends

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 6, 2020

  

  On March 14, Evelyn and Tom LaMers will be doing the same thing they’ve been doing the second Saturday of March for the past 27 years — hosting a dinner as part of the Feast for Friends, the Friends Care Community annual  progressive dinner.

• ‘Awesome’ local youth center

  By Audrey HackettMarch 5, 2020

  

  Open Mondays through Fridays from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m., the local drop-in youth center is free and open to all kids ages 10 to 18.

• Spring forward — a little history on Daylight Saving Time

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 4, 2020

  

  Most of the continental United States will spend a bleary-eyed morning this coming Sunday, March 8, as Daylight Saving Time returns, requiring all villagers to set their clocks one hour ahead — and potentially get to bed an hour earlier — on Saturday night. But who to thank — or blame — for the annual time change?

• Free speech and the library

  By Audrey HackettMarch 1, 2020

  

  A local group organizing against Issue 12 — the sales tax levy to fund the construction of a new jail for Greene County — was turned away from Yellow Springs Community Library’s meeting room last week.

• Free HIV testing March 4

  By YS News Staff

  

  Free HIV testing, provided by Equitas Health, will be offered Wednesday, March 4, on the Antioch College campus.