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2026
January 30
Features
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Record-breaking snowstorm hits village
According to some initial reports, it was a record-breaking storm. The National Weather Service stated that 12.4 inches of snow fell on the Dayton International Airport on Jan. 25, thus beating the previous record held by the infamous Blizzard of 1978. By 0.2 inches, last weekend’s storm holds the regional title for the most snow to fall in 24 consecutive hours.
Village Council
Obituaries
Featured Photos
February 6
Features
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Yellow Springs rallies behind Haitian neighbors
Over the last several weeks, a great many Yellow Springs residents have been up to what they historically do best: checking in with their neighbors and resisting injustice all the while.
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Hike through John Bryan, Clifton Gorge
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Natural Areas and Preserves and Ohio State Parks will present their annual winter hike through John Bryan State Park and Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve on Saturday, Feb. 7.
Obituaries
January 23
Features
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Yellow Springs High School alumna unearths ‘Yesterday’s YS’
An internship at the YS Chamber of Commerce has turned into an unexpected deep dive into the village’s midcentury streetscape — and, now, a public historical photo project.
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‘Retrospective’ to be on display at The Winds
Katherine Kadish’s “Retrospective” — an exhibition of her work from 1960 to 2025 — is now on display at The Winds Café. The show includes etchings, wood block prints, oil paintings, pastels and monotypes.
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Ready, set, date!
All eligible singles in the Miami Valley area are invited to a casual evening of speed dating on Thursday, Feb. 5, 7–9 p.m., at Peach’s Grill, 104 Xenia Ave., in Yellow Springs.
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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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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.
January 16
Features
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Tin Can Economy | Apparently some definitions mean little
“This modern slave patrol is barging into homes, busting out windows, kidnapping workers from restaurants, barging into private spaces with all the violence they can muster, with bad tempers and prejudices holstered in their belts.”
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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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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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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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Village to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day — march cancelled, indoor program still on
The annual march through downtown, which was scheduled to step off at about 9:45 a.m., has been cancelled due to chilly temperatures in the forecast. The indoor MLK Day programming will continue as planned at 11 a.m. in the Bryan Center gymnasium.
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Young thespians stage ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
“The Diary of Anne Frank” is set to run its final two performances Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, after an opening performance Thursday, Jan. 15.
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Electrical fire at Lawson Place home
Just after 2 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, a resident at 11 Lawson Place noticed that an outside wall of their home had caught fire and called 911. According to Fire Chief James Cannell, MTFR firefighters were “on the scene within five minutes.”
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Yellow Springs Pharmacy ‘here for long haul’
After an unexpected closure that lasted two days earlier this week, Yellow Springs Pharmacy is “going nowhere,” staffers told the News on Friday. The location will maintain its regular hours of Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
January 9
Features
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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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Executive Director Montgomery to retire from Friends Care Community
This week, after more than eight years leading the nonprofit Friends Care Community, Executive Director Mike Montgomery is stepping out from behind the desk one last time, officially retiring from the position Friday, Jan. 9.
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Yellow Springs Senior Center eyes former lumber yard
Yellow Springs Senior Center leaders are eyeing the former lumber yard at 108 Cliff St. as a potential site for the organization’s long-planned new building — a possible shift away from a Livermore Street parcel the Senior Center purchased two years ago.
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New Miami Township Trustees board settles in
The Miami Township Trustees began their first meeting of the new year Monday, Jan. 5, by swearing in Trustee Chair Marilan Moir for her second term and newly elected Trustee Lori Askeland for her first.
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Ball things must pass— A new Mr. NYE for YS
The New Year’s Eve ball drop that ushered Yellow Springs into 2026 was villager Lance Rudegeair’s last. The annual tradition — and the bedazzled disco ball itself — have been passed onto Dan Badger, who will drop the village into 2027 and beyond.
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National Alliance on Mental Illness support available in Yellow Springs
The area National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, hosts a local Connection Recovery Support Group, for those living with a mental health condition, the second Monday of each month, 6:30–8 p.m. The next meeting is Jan. 12.
Village Council
January 2
Features
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The Patterdale Hall Diaries | The ninth plane of Xenia Township
“We are in no danger of losing power now, and my main goal is to keep the pipes from freezing. I think we are only a week or so away from having to blow the water out of the pipes.”
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Cultivating Christmas cheer
“Growing Christmas trees as a cash crop in the United States began in the early 1900s in western Pennsylvania. Some of the first Christmas tree plantations were started in Indiana County — the county where I grew up — in 1918.”
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Favorite Yellow Springs Memories, Pt. I
“At the end of 2025, the News asked folks to share their favorite Yellow Springs memories — and we received a flood of responses from villagers near and far.”
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Little Art launches new documentary series
Little Art Theatre has announced a new artist-in-residence initiative, debuting this month with Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Steven Bognar and artist-filmmaker Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli.
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A tale of two pies
For a little village of about 3,700 people, it may seem strange to see two pizza parlors sharing the same downtown — let alone, sitting across the street from one another.
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Concert to offer warmth in ‘midwinter’
“In the Bleak Midwinter” with Marna Street, violin, and Barbara Leeds, piano, will be performed Saturday, Jan. 10, beginning at 3 p.m., in Herndon Gallery at Antioch College. Admission is free.
Village Council
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