It’s been about two weeks since Jeff Sheridan started as Yellow Springs’ interim Village manager, and he’s already settling into the position, he told the News last week from his second-floor Bryan ...

Contributing writer Don Hollister dove into the YS News archives to uncover past articles and more in his most recent ...

Patricia “Patty” L. Alexander, age 90, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, died Sept. 27, 2026. She was born Jan. 28, 1936, the daughter of Charles M. Alexander and Beatrice (Heider) Alexander. She grew up on ...

On Saturday, Oct. 3, YS Hack — a group dedicated to bringing people together to play hacky sack — will celebrate its fifth anniversary as an organization at its second annual “Hack Day.” The day-long ...

At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Sept. 21, Village Council members voted affirmatively to accept the ...

We are grateful to be involved with such a wonderful activity, and to have had the opportunity to spend time with the players and families alike; it truly takes a village to make it happen.

Since her mother died in August, Hypatia McLellan has been finding Gail Lichtenfels in the places she left behind. Sometimes, she’s waiting between the pages of books. Across five decades as the owner ...

We are under a heat dome. It is intense. Over a week of temperatures in the mid-90s has rendered yard work impossible. Patterdale Hall is out of control, but I cannot mow there in this heat. I have ...

Holly Near has spent more than half a century writing songs meant to be useful. Some were written in response to particular moments of violence or upheaval, then moved outward from their original ...

At its Wednesday, Sept. 9, regular meeting — moved from Monday because of the Labor Day holiday — the Miami Township Board of Trustees moved closer to opening the Pine Forest section of Glen Forest ...

Identifying a chickadee call is easy — it’s in the name. “Chick-a-dee-dee-dee!” But when a threat is nearby, these plump little songbirds will tack on an additional “dee” or two. In the late winter ...