Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet.
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Favorite Yellow Springs Memories, Pt. II
“The volume of responses we received was vast — more than any year in the 16 I’ve been with the News, at least — so we’ll keep sharing them throughout this month.”
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Favorite Yellow Springs Memories, Pt. III
“We continue with our third installment of readers’ favorite Yellow Springs memories this week, and hope they bring some warmth to the winter chill.”
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The Patterdale Hall Diaries | The wilderness years
“It will remain below freezing for three more days and then we get a reprieve. I’ll continue lighting fires at the Hall, but am unlikely to stay out overnight because of the toilet situation.”
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Dispose of your meds, safely
The box is the result of a collaboration between the YS Police Department, local resident Emma Robinow and Odd Fellows Lodge #279, and is designed to safely collect prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and even vitamins.
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Future roundabout at 68 and Fairfield?
The Ohio Department of Transportation is seeking public input for safety improvements at the intersection of U.S. 68 and Fairfield Pike — about five miles north of Yellow Springs municipal limits.
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Ohio’s first measles outbreak of the year reported
On Jan. 9, Ohio Department of Health Director Bruce Vanderhoff reported the state’s first measles cases and outbreak of 2026.
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Tom’s Market co-op model comes into view
On Wednesday night, Jan. 14, around 250 villagers packed First Presbyterian Church’s Westminster Hall to mull over the future of Tom’s Market. It was a town hall hosted by the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, and the first public opportunity for local residents to weigh in on the possibility of the downtown grocery becoming a cooperatively operated market, or a co-op.
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School board considers new times for school day
Having settled this first-of-the-year business, Superintendent Terri Holden later opened discussion about another proposed timing change: a later start for Mills Lawn students and an earlier one for YS Middle and High School students beginning next school year.
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New highs for county bird count
Flocks of keen-eyed hikers, veteran birders and pedestrian ornithologists fanned out across 48 Greene County sites on Saturday, Jan. 3, with a straight-forward mission of logging every bird they saw.
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Yellow Springs Development Corporation purchases downtown buildings
YSDC, a quasi-governmental nonprofit and community improvement corporation, bought the adjoining properties from the trustees of the estate of the late Bob Baldwin for $630,000 — money loaned to YSDC from Yellow Springs Community Foundation.
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