Public Meetings

Superintendent Terri Holden announced that YS Schools received an overall five-star rating — the highest rating possible — on its 2022–23 state report card, which was released by the Ohio Department of Education in September.

Out of 30 samples the Village water department took this April, only one registered above the detection limit at 9.2 parts per trillion — a level significantly below the current health advisory limit, but above the proposed maximum level of contamination.

“When it comes to our own, we need to do better. We need to love and hold each other accountable in a way that makes us all free.”

Rentals, employment, cars, garage sales and more! Find it all in this week’s classifieds in the Yellow Springs News.

Village Council Regular Meeting

Public Meetings

The panel, moderated by Xavier Portis, included Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D., an American anthropologist, educator, the first woman to serve as president of historically Black institution Spelman College, and former president of Bennett College.

In order to understand the identity and character of Yellow Springs, it helps to know something about its history. That’s the guiding principle of local author Kay Reimers’ recently released historical book, “How It Happened: The Creation of Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The Presbyterian pews were filled for the first concert of the 2023–2024 Chamber Music in Yellow Springs season, which featured the vocal ensemble CANTUS, an eight-member “low voice” a cappella ensemble.