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Village Life Section :: Page 96

  • With an eye for the handmade, Cyclops returns

    By Guest ContributorSeptember 13, 2018

    Christopher Weyrich and Tiffany Clark of Dayton’s Mural Machine, pose with Weyrich’s Cyclops Fest mural in 2016. (Submitted photo)

    Festivals are a dime a dozen in this area, but the mass-produced goods on offer leave something to be desired. That drove one local artist and shop owner to co-create a different kind of festival.

  • Baker inducted into Women’s Hall of Fame — Publisher, music-lover, volunteer

    By Guest Contributor

    Jane Baker is being inducted into the Greene County Women’s Hall of Fame, with a reception for its 2018 honorees slated this month. She recently showed off some of the books she designed in her home office on Phillips Street. Baker is a local book publisher, editor and designer and has been a dedicated volunteer to many local nonprofit organizations, including Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, which she cofounded. (Photo by Carla Steiger)

    A gentle smile played across the face of Jane Baker when she confessed to being surprised by her nomination for inclusion in the Greene County Women’s Hall of Fame.

  • Story Chain connects incarcerated parents with their children

    By Matt Minde

    Local resident Jonathan Platt started Story Chain, a project that helps inmates in local correctional facilities connect with their children through the stories they record themselves reading. Platt has run the program at several local prisons and jails, including the Greene County Jail. (Photo by Morgan Beard)

    Krista Vandyke was a participant in Story Chain, a program that gives inmates the opportunity to read to their children from the confines of incarceration. 

  • Soapy Sunday

    By Megan BachmanSeptember 6, 2018

    The sixth annual Bubblefest attracted bubble-blowers from near and far. Here local resident Ginger Spaugy enjoyed some good clean fun with her grandchildren, from left, Rayna, Jaidyn and Vanny. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    The sixth annual Bubblefest attracted bubble-blowers from near and far, who lined the streets for an hour reveling in the orbs that drifted down the sidewalk and popped on passing cars.

  • Yellow Springs Community rallies after fatal fire

    By Carol Simmons

    Firefighters worked to extingush a house fire at 1436 Glen View Drive on Friday, Aug. 24, that left a 26-year-old disabled man dead and his grandmother hospitalized. (Photo by Megan Bachman)f

    Nearly a week after a local house fire claimed the life of a Yellow Springs man and hospitalized an elder relative, fire officials continue to investigate the cause, while the community rallies around the grieving family.

  • Village Council — Vernay cleanup plan probed

    By Megan Bachman

    Groundwater contaminated with chlorinated solvents and volatile organic compounds at levels above EPA drinking water standards from the former Vernay rubber parts manufacturing facility on Dayton Street has spread eastward across Wright Street and Suncrest Drive. Soil contamination at the site is concentrated in an area near the two former plants, where chlorinated solvents used to degrease metal parts were disposed, and at the front of a property, where a common pesticide was used. Contamination is also present in the the storm sewers (and the backfill surrounding them), which continue to transport pollutants off the property. (Map was generated using data and maps from cleanup oversight firm EHS Technology Group of Dayton)

    A member of the Yellow Springs Environmental Commission urged Village Council at its Aug. 20 meeting to weigh in on a plan to clean up a highly contaminated industrial site in the village.

  • Unsung civil rights activist remembered

    By Guest Contributor

    In an effort to bring civil rights activist Bayard Rustin’s story out of the shadows of history, a series of events, including multiple performances of an oratorio about the activist’s life, will be presented in early September.

  • Antioch College recognized for sustainability practices

    By Guest Contributor

    The college’s first crew of four-legged lawnmowers in 2015, shown with Farm Manager Kat Christen and then-student and Farm Assistant Alli King. (YS News file photo)

    Antioch College has been recognized as a top performer in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index, achieving a second-place rating in top performing institutions for grounds.

  • In September, a focus on dementia

    By Diane ChiddisterAugust 30, 2018

    The 18-month-long Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs project is organizing several activities for September, World Alzheimer’s Month. Two of its organizers are, from left, Toni Dosik, and Karen Wolford of the Yellow Springs Senior Center. Not pictured are organizers Kate LeVesconte and Karen Puterbaugh of the Greene County Council on Aging. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    When organizers for the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs, or DFYS, project held a community book read last winter on a book about dementia, they were encouraged by the hardy response.

  • Potato pie-in-the-sky, down to earth

    By Lauren ShowsAugust 27, 2018

    A savory — and soporific — potato pie.

    The ambitious recipes I have gathered over the years serve as a reminder of the fact that sometimes simplicity is needed — and that your own tastes will change, not unlike everything else in the world.

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