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In its second year as both an official Village and a federal holiday, Juneteenth will be celebrated in Yellow Springs on Sunday, June 19, beginning with a 10-mile walk from Wilberforce to the village and culminating in a celebration at the Bryan Center.
By Marianne MacQueen As Faith Morgan told me in a recent interview, it is difficult to wrap our heads around the magnitude of the problems we have created through our reliance on fossil fuels. We are embedded in an extractive economic system, living lifestyles that are destroying life on the planet, she explained. Recognizing the environmental crisis, Village Council, of which I am the vice president, approved a 2021 goal to create a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. The Environmental Commission is currently reviewing a draft plan that builds on earlier work of the Yellow Springs Resili...
Yellow Springs kicked off the beginning of 2020, as always, with the traditional ball drop overseen by Lance Rudegeair; MTFR personnel handed out hot cocoa, and at least one marriage proposal greeted the new year. The Reach Out Free Clinic, which was held each Tuesday evening at Central Chapel AME Church, celebrated a year of operation in early January. The free, donation-based clinic, a satellite location of Reach Out Dayton, closed due to the pandemic in March; the Dayton location shuttered permanently later in the year. Nan Harshaw, longtime chair of the MLK Day Planning Committee, was awa...
Among all the mail ferried by the U.S. Postal Service every year, there’s one name and address that arguably receives more correspondence than any other in the country: Santa Claus, North Pole. Considering Santa’s busy schedule, however, it’s no surprise that the famed Christmas patron needs some help answering fan mail. For the past three decades, local Santa-designated aides have been providing that assistance, making sure that Santa not only receives the letters, but dutifully taking dictation — after a fashion — to make sure every letter writer receives a response. For years, th...