The March 31 issue of the News featured an article about Yellow Springs Pottery’s 50-year anniversary as a cooperatively owned business. This follow-up article spotlights five local members of the co-op. The co-op membership currently stands at nine.

The annual Yellow Springs Habitat Community and Earth Day celebration will be Sunday, April 23, 1:30–4:30 p.m., at the John Bryan Community Center.

Water Quality Report/Consumer Confidence Report

Ordinance 2023-18

Former longtime Yellow Springs resident Wilfred Randolph Ball Jr. departed this life on Friday, April 14, 2023. He was 91.

Michele Joan (Van Eaton) Bauer, 70, of Satellite Beach, Florida, and Dayton, Ohio, passed away on April 4, 2023, 10 years to the day that her next oldest sister passed and following an 18-year-long battle with leukemia.

The Yellow Springs Masonic Lodge will host a public open house Saturday, April 22, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.; the Lodge is located at 242 Xenia Ave.

“Violet Babb is throwing hard this year. While she has struggled with her control thus far, when she throws strikes, she is unhittable,” Coach Jimmy Delong said. Babb has nine strikeouts in six innings this season and has only allowed four hits.

A painting, created by Bronx-based artist Rafaela Santos — with a simple color palette of reds, blues, whites and blacks — draws the eyes immediately when walking into the newly completed architecture studio, Crome Yellow Springs, formerly the church home of the predominately African American First Baptist Church.

At a Wednesday, March 29 work session of the YS Board of Education, board members winnowed the number of plans for potential facilities upgrades under consideration from eight options to six.