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Village Life Section :: Page 92

  • Flu ramps up in the area

    By Megan BachmanMarch 21, 2019

    Auf wiedersehen, Gesundheit! The Sound of Music has been rescheduled once more for April 11–14. Pictured above are members of the cast waving "auf wiedersehen, goodbye" at a rehearsal March 6, shortly before flu and other upper respiratory illnesses laid low many of the performers and their classmates. (Photo by Luciana Lieff)

    Those who think flu season is just about over are wrong, according to Ohio Department of Health Assistant Director of Communications J. C. Benton this week.

  • Local agriculture conference — A growing green movement

    By Megan BachmanMarch 14, 2019

    Soil scientist Bob Hendershot taught a session during a land assessment workshop held at the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture last summer. Hendershot, whose career was with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, will return for a local farming conference organized by the Tecumseh Land Trust and Community Solutions on March 15–17. A free talk by farmer Renee Winner on how to transition to organic agriculture will kick off the event at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 15. (Submitted photo by Amy Harper)

    Unless new farming practices are adopted, the world has only 60 years of harvests left, the United Nations announced a few years ago. 

  • International Women’s Day — Celebrating women’s lives

    By Carol Simmons

    Honoring and celebrating both the commonalities as well as the different life experiences of women is at the heart of a local event planned Friday, March 8, in recognition of International Women’s Day.

  • Full house: Yellow Springs Celebrates International Women’s Day

    By YS News Staff

    The panel for “Yellow Springs Celebrates International Women’s Day” featured, from left, Sierra Leone, a Dayton writer and poet who received the 2018 Ohio Governor’s Award for Community Development and Participation; Neenah Ellis, station manager at WYSO, and Sirisha Naidu, associate professor of economics at Wright State University. The panel was moderated by Angie Hsu, at right. (Submitted photo)

    “Yellow Springs Celebrates International Women’s Day” was held Friday, March 8, at a Yellow Springs residence.

  • John Bryan Youth Center closed due to widespread illness

    By YS News StaffMarch 7, 2019

    John Bryan Youth Center closed due to widespread illness. It will reopen on Monday, March 11 for regular hours.

  • Alyce Earl Jenkins— Recognized for service, teaching

    By Diane Chiddister

    Alyce Earl Jenkins is shown in her Omar Circle home. She has been widely recognized for her work of rehabilitation counseling at Wright State University. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    “Sometimes when I’m feeling down, I come in here and think, well, I did make a contribution to different communities at different times,” Alyce Earl Jenkins said in an interview last week. That’s quite an understatement.

  • School event to welcome Rwandan educators

    By YS News StaffMarch 2, 2019

    Brother Straton Malisaba and Brother Crescent Karerangabo, of the Catholic boarding school Ecole des Sciences, in Byimana, Rwanda, will be guests Tuesday, March 5, at a “Mini French Cafe,” hosted by the French classes at Yellow Springs High School.

  • Velocity raptor

    By YS News StaffFebruary 28, 2019

    Rebecca Jaramilla, director of the Raptor Center at Glen Helen Nature Preserve, handled Velocity, a female peregrine falcon, during a raptor photography program at the center on Sunday, Feb. 24. (Photo by Luciana Lieff)

    While the Raptor Center rehabilitates injured falcons, hawks and owls, with hopes of eventual rerelease into the wild, it continues to house those unable to survive on their own.

  • Villager to take plastics for a ride—Recycling program slated

    By Lauren Shows

    Vickie Hennessy and the truck she uses to ferry difficult-to-recycle No. 5 plastic from areas around the village to a collection point at Whole Foods; collection sites around the village were closed last week after Whole Foods discontinued to program, but are back open after the store offered to continue to accept the plastics en masse from the village. (Photo by Lauren “Chuck” Shows)

    If you’ve ever lamented the amount of recyclable plastics that end up in your trash every week, take heart: One of Yellow Springs’ own is coming to the rescue.

  • McKee Group program to focus on local black history

    By Megan BachmanFebruary 24, 2019

    The James A. McKee Association will host a community conversation on the history of African Americans in Yellow Springs this week.

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