Village Fam, Yellow Springs’ first hip-hop group is bringing its annual music festival downtown this Saturday.

All I can say is, “Wow!” What an incredible finish it was to the 2014 Minor League season.

Miami Township Trustees voted at their meeting this month to place a Township Fire-Rescue levy renewal on the ballot in November. The trustees chose a renewal, which does not increase taxes, for several reasons, including the possibility that they may ask voters for a new levy next year to build a new fire station.

Miami Township has been looking for a new home for its Fire-Rescue team for over three years, and this summer the land option they had banked on since 2011 fell through.

Last Wednesday, July 28, Yellow Springs youth Sam Foster cast his line in the pond behind the Huber Heights Fraternal Order of Police and reeled in a tiny bluegill.

David Case died on Sunday, Aug. 3. A full obituary will appear in a future issue of the News.

Sophia Purdin, 3, has a flower tattoo painted on her face. She walks right up to me, her eyes shining, lifting her hands so they are as high as her ears.

When Julie Pies and Patti Mielziner returned to Ohio to be closer to their immediate family, they hoped that their newly opened bodywork practice in Yellow Springs, Body Wisdom, would help them to create some new family as well. Through their work together over time with their clients and patients, Julie said, they come to be like family.

A mid-year budget review at Village Council’s July 21 meeting offered good news regarding Village general fund revenues.

Deborah (Debbie) Louise Cushman, of Springfield, left this earth in the presence of loved ones on Saturday, Aug. 2. She was 63. Debbie was born June 11, 1951, in Fort Meade, Md., and grew up in Coshocton, Ohio. She graduated from Coshocton High School in 1969 and went on to attend Ohio University in Athens, […]