Melanie Joy Taylor (Van Eaton) slipped peacefully from this life on Thursday, April 4. She was 62. She died at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia after four years of dialysis following kidney failure and deteriorating health. She was able to remain in her home with her daughter’s care and to contribute to the next generation […]

Mary Carol “Mac” Ferguson passed away peacefully in her sleep on April 25 in Gibsonia, Pa., just four days shy of her 89th birthday.

The Yellow Springs Senior Center, which serves vital health, transportation and social needs for the area’s senior citizens, for the first time in 2011 and 2012 budgeted for a 6 percent deficit. While the local center is serving more seniors than ever before, around 700 individuals per year, revenue has not kept pace with the expenses needed to serve a growing population of elders.

Villagers will have a chance to relive — or redo — the greatest night of their lives at “Enchantment Under the Springs” on Saturday night.

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The Little Art Theatre’s closing for renovation Tuesday prompted a visit from National Public Radio.

Ohio Brass & Electric, a new local 11-piece horn band will play at the Home, Inc. benefit “Springs Soiree” on Friday, May 3.

Glen Helen invites the village’s bird watchers and watching enthusiasts to come out on Saturday, May 11, and help count the number of feathered friends that have chosen the local preserve as either a home or a migrant’s favorite stop-over.

The 2013-14 Redbook is here and is FREE with the purchase of the April 25 issue of the News. After Wednesday, May 1 you can pick up the community directory for $2.50 at the News office, 253 1/2 Xenia Ave.

In their home opener, the YSHS softball team mounted a late-inning rally but lost 17–7.