Yellow Springs Village Council decided at its July 18 meeting that if “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” regarding the hiring of a contractor for solid waste pickup.

It was another scorcher. Ninty-three degrees at 6:30 p.m. (though the humidity was only 49 percent, which helped some). Five kids got us started — we had 25 on the diamond before the rains sent us home early, and for the third time this season. Dane Beal, 5, is for me one of the keenest […]

Yellow Springs police arrested a Friends Care Community employee last week for sexually assaulting one of the extended care center’s residents.

Antioch College has announced that it has begun work on the Antioch College farm, its first major sustainability project, which organizers hope to incorporate into many aspects of campus life and curriculum. Local organic farmer Kat Christen has been hired to develop the farm’s first phase.

Despite the national trend of states decreasing funding for arts and culture, funds allocated for Ohio’s cultural organizations, including several in Yellow Springs, have been increased by 30.5 percent for 2012.

Mitchell Cary, 64, a retired United States Air Force test pilot who worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a civilian, died last Saturday in a plane crash outside of Springfield. Cary was piloting a Wright “B” Flyer’s Silver Bird look-alike with Don Gum of Beavercreek, who also died, when it crashed in a field […]

Friends of Dan Hotaling are invited to a memorial service and celebration of his life on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2–4 p.m. in the Glen Helen Building. Dan, who died March 28, would have been 83. Those planning to attend should RSVP to Dale Hotaling by calling 767-9414.

Barbara Jane Bullen died Monday, Aug. 1, at Greenewood Manor. She was 86. She was born September 4, 1924, in Yellow Springs, Ohio the daughter of Ralph and Mildred (Rienwald) Figgins. Barbara graduated from John Bryan High School in Yellow Springs, where she was a cheerleader. She worked with her husband in his family operated […]

Today’s weekly wildlife is a spiderweb.

The Yellow Springs Arts Council hosted an audio/visual extravaganza last Saturday night called Synesthesia.