Village Life Section :: Page 80

• Guinness record a virtual triumph

  By Megan BachmanDecember 12, 2019

  

  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.

• Snow pack

  By Matt MindeNovember 28, 2019

  

  On Friday, Nov. 22, members of the Yellow Springs Cub Scout Pack 578 were spotted decorating a window at Yellow Springs Hardware.

• Invasive of the month— Impact of ornamentals not pretty

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The present article is the last in this season’s “invasive of the month” series, which began with a two-part article on the local impact of non-native invasive plants last spring, and continued with monthly features focused on specific invasives of local concern. The series was undertaken in consultation with Glen Helen.

• Other voices — Gifts, truths for Thanksgiving

  By Guest ContributorNovember 27, 2019

  

  For many Indigenous people today, and especially here in the Ohio Valley, this time of year is riddled with modern day cringe-worthy moments, sadness, mourning and, sometimes, arcane anger.

• New pastor for historic AME church

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Central Chapel AME Church has a new pastor. Read more about Rev. Morné Meyer’s leadership of Yellow Springs’ AME church in the Nov. 28 issue of the News.