Public Meetings

Mary Florence Gray, age 98, of Greene County, passed away Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, at Hospice of Dayton.

Anthony Lamar Brandon, 38, a Yellow Springs native, died Oct. 11 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Earlier this month, excavation crews struck something unusual as they were clearing the campus of McKinney Middle and YS High schools for the planned renovation and new construction.

Fred Kauser, a firefighter of 40 years and former Mifflin Township fire chief, now serves as a fire instructor, lecturer, trainer and consultant, as well as a professor and researcher with a master’s degree in labor and human resource management and a Ph.D. in workforce development and education.

After a life-changing cancer diagnosis, 74-year-old Phyllis Braun told the News that she continues to love and trust in the healing process, even as she steps into the unknown.

The school district and Village government continue to work together to flesh out the details and possibilities of a proposed 50-unit low-income housing development.

On several evenings this fall, in the YS Senior Center’s Great Room, a chorus of shifting paper, scribbling pencils and insightful suggestions are illuminating a string of personal and nonfiction stories.

On Sunday, Oct. 6, the ribbon was cut on the new, mile-long multi-modal path — lovingly dubbed Mary’s Way, after the late Mary Donahoe — that connects the Yellow Springs High School campus to Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice and Hall Hunger Initiative.

Local funny guy Justin Howard’s eight-week-long improvisational acting class in the Yellow Springs Hardware Store culminated on Tuesday, Sept. 24, when his students got on stage for a final, quasi public performance.