Michael Lee “Mikey” Cowen of Fairborn, formerly of Yellow Springs, died at 6:20 a.m., Saturday, May 17, in Kettering Medical Center. He was 30. He was born August 11, 1977, in Cincinnati, a son of Albert H. Cowen and Karen Woodmansee-Cowen.

The Miami Valley Track Club begins practices for its summer season this week. Practices are held Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in May at 6 p.m. at the Yellow Springs High School track.

Final registration for the 2008 Yellow Springs Minor League Youth Baseball program will be held on Saturday, May 24, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Gaunt Park. Boys and girls ages 7 to 11 are eligible to participate as long as they will not have turned 12 by July 31.

The Bulldog boys track team won the Metro Buckeye Conference meet at Troy Christian on Friday, May 16, by an overwhelming margin over the seven other teams. Yellow Springs had 169 points, well ahead of Dayton Christian’s 113, and host Troy Christian’s 105.

Beth Holyoke and Kaethi Seidl worked last week on the library’s tile bench and mural commissioned by the family of Harold Fishbain to honor his life as a local physician, playful storyteller and avid reader. Photo by Susan Gartner.

The Mills Lawn gym was festooned with decorations and lights to set a playful mood for the Mills Lawn, McKinney School and Yellow Springs High School community’s Spring Music Fest held Thursday, May 15.

Yellow Springs residents will soon have the opportunity to ensure that the cost of their share of household energy use goes to supporting renewable power sources like the sun, wind, waterways and landfill gas. Village Council on Monday, May 19, agreed to initiate a new “green pricing” program that will offer residents the option of […]

Residents of Friends Care Community interact and bond with children attending Friends Preschool, which is housed inside the nursing home.

At the meeting of the Yellow Springs Board of Education on Thursday, May 8, board members heard a draft proposal for a new program aimed at both promoting higher education for local young people and attracting new young families to Yellow Springs.

In what appears to be the final act of the long, complex and heartwrenching saga around efforts to save Antioch College, the Antioch University Board of Trustees on Thursday, May 8, rejected the offer of the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or AC3, of almost $16 million to keep the college open.