Following is the text of a letter the Chamber received this morning:
Congratulations!
I am extremely pleased to inform you that Yellow Springs has been chosen as one of Ohio’s Best Hometowns for 2010 by the editors of Ohio Magazine. Yellow Springs will be featured in the cover story of our November 2009 issue, and we wanted you to be the first to know. We will be contacting media in your area as well as across the state with the news immediately, so get set to be in the spotlight you so richly deserve. You will also be hearing from Jessica Esemplare, who will be writing the story for the magazine.
Your achievement is especially impressive in light of the fact that Ohio is home to many of the best hometowns in America. Only one town is chosen from each of the state’s five regions for this very special honor. This award recognizes that Yellow Springs is among the best of the best.
Our editors and staff would like to work with you to plan an appropriate hometown celebration to mark this achievement. We will be in touch with you very soon.
In the meantime, please feel free to call us if you wish further details now. Again, our heartiest congratulations. We look forward to talking to you and working with you to spread the news and celebrate!
Best wishes,
Richard Osborne
Publisher & Editor, Ohio Magazine
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5 comments:
woo hoo, how awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
I appreciate the compliment, but have to wonder if they aren't working with out-of-date information. There have to be other small towns with a similar way of life that aren't suffering the kind of decline we're in.
Ignore that man. He's a professional griper.
Makes no sense to me how we ever made it on this list. There are numerous run down houses in our village which makes it look really trashy. I have seen ghettos with less run down homes than we have in our village. I wish people would take more pride in the appearance of their homes in our town so we can truly be one of the best places to live.
Artists tend to be self-absorbed and preoccupied. Keeping up lawn and garden are often very low on their list of priorities.
I was raised in a picturesque village, where homeowners were consumed with watering, fertilizing and trimming their lawns. It was Disney perfect. The residents mostly commuted to boring jobs and returned home to their hobby, maintaining the house and yard.
Garbage cans had to be kept behind the house, where the sanitation workers would pick them up and return them. It was illegal to park a truck in your driveway. There was no overnight parking on the streets.
Everyone had a small bumper sticker identifying their automobile as belonging to a resident, so the police could keep an eye out for intruders.
It was wonderful. But I live here, now.
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