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Village Life Section :: Page 89

  • Village schools closed Thursday, Jan. 31

    By Matt MindeJanuary 30, 2019

    Subzero temperatures and fine dry snow blew across fields Wednesday morning, Jan. 30. The weather caused schools and businesses to close. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Village schools, the Antioch School, the Community Children’s Center and Friends Preschool will all be closed on Thursday, Jan. 30, due to continuing extreme low temperatures. 

  • Stay warm with cold weather tips

    By YS News StaffJanuary 29, 2019

    With the coming onslaught of brutally cold temperatures courtesy of the winter expansion of the polar vortex, as well as general cold snaps, village residents should prepare to keep themselves alert and safe when weather is frigid.

  • Food justice the focus of Dayton food & farming conference

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 27, 2019

    Food justice is the focus of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 40th annual conference, Feb. 14–16 at the Dayton Convention Center.

  • Winter hike through Little Miami River Gorge slated

    By YS News StaffJanuary 25, 2019

    Clifton Gorge in winter. (Photo from Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves Facebook page.)

    The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will host its fourth annual winter hike through the Little Miami River Gorge, which runs through John Bryan State Park and Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve, on Saturday, Jan. 26.

  • Yellow Springers to participate—Area food and farming event focuses on justice

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 24, 2019

    Onika Abraham, left, a farmer and educator who runs Farm School NYC, and Elizabeth Henderson, right, a pioneer of the Community-Supported Agriculture movement, and are the keynote speakers at this year’s Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Conference, at the Dayton Convention Center Feb. 14–16. Several Yellow Springs residents are also participating as workshop leaders and exhibitors. (Submitted photos)

    Farmer and educator Onika Abraham, a national leader of the food justice movement, believes that the current food system creates pockets where healthy food isn’t available. Just don’t call them food deserts.

  • “Stay Woke” — 2019 MLK Day events slated

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 20, 2019

    Several hundred villagers showed up in the cold and snow to march and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    The 2019 program for MLK Day in Yellow Springs features a march, program, lunch, teach-in and lecture across three days.

  • YS speech, debate team to host tournament

    By YS News StaffJanuary 12, 2019

    More than 300 middle and high school students from across southwest and central Ohio will be coming to Yellow Springs on Saturday, Jan. 26, for a speech and debate tournament hosted by the Yellow Springs team.

  • ‘Mindful of Race’ discussion group to begin

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 10, 2019

    The Dharma Center will hold a seven-week book discussion group focused on Ruth King’s book “Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out” on Thursdays beginning Jan. 17.

  • Aahar India burns

    By YS News StaffJanuary 5, 2019

    Local Indian food venue Aahar India burned Saturday evening. No one was injured. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Aahar India, the local Indian food venue next to the Corner Cone, burned Saturday evening.

  • 2018 Year in Review: Village Life

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 3, 2019

    Local students joined the National Walkout School movement on March 14, with well over 100 students and some faculty and parents walking out of McKinney Middle/Yellow Springs High School to remember the lives of those killed in the Florida school shootings and to urge action on gun control and school safety. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    2018 Year in Review: Village Life

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