Jessica Alt, a 1987 graduate of Yellow Springs High School whose family lives in the village, completed the purchase of the restaurant, renamed Jessica’s Poke Island, at 135 Dayton St. last month.

The festival, which ran Oct. 6–8, featured a number of screenings and Q&A discussions, including with filmmakers Steven Bognar, Stephen Michael Simon and Steve Zahn and actor and comedian Fred Armisen.

It was a great day to be a Bulldog as the Yellow Springs High School and McKinney Middle School cross-country teams had great performances at the Jim Murray Invitational, held at the Clark County Fairgrounds Saturday, Sept. 30.

Ask yourself, “Where is the fight?” It isn’t at the finish line. It is one step past the last.

Walking under the autumn sun on Halloween afternoon, Monday, Oct. 31, were plenty of pretty princesses, frightful goblins and ghouls, myriad Marios and Luigis, fantastical warriors and beautiful Barbies.

Charles W. Koeller, age 85, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023.

Robert P. Douglas Jr., age 65, passed away Oct. 26, 2023, in Springfield, Ohio.

Hilda R. Bolle, age 94, of Springfield, passed away Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, at Forest Glen Health Campus.

Arthur E. “Art” Morgan, 91, of Monticello, Indiana, passed away Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023 at IU Health White Memorial Hospital.

Pauline Ramona Brown passed early on the beautiful autumn morning of Oct. 25, in her bed surrounded by her daughters, with the steady hand of Dayton Hospice.