According to Village Solicitor Amy Blankenship and Planning and Economic Development Director Meg Leatherman, a the Village’s economic incentive policy complicates the process of new businesses, developments or nonprofits setting up shop in Yellow Springs.

A public Celebration of Life for Monty Cox, who died Dec. 28, 2024, will be held Saturday, April 26, at 2:30 p.m., in the Dining Room of Friends Care Community, 150 E. Herman St., Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Juliet “Judy” W. (Liddle) Hennessy died Jan. 10, 2025, at home in Yellow Springs. She was 97 years old.

Village Council Agenda

Village Council Agenda

The Springfield Civic Theatre will present the cult-comic musical “The Rocky Horror Show” Thursday–Saturday, Feb. 13–15, at the John Legend Theater. The production — directed by Yellow Springs’ own Lorrie Sparrow-Knapp — features a cast of Springfield and Yellow Springs actors and musicians.

An upcoming four-day summit hosted by Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center  for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom aims to inspire students, artists, researchers, activists, organizers, educators and scholars not only to envision, but also to help create — as author Toni Morrison once told a group of collegiate graduates — “the world as it ought to be.”

Ohio Loves Transit Week is Feb. 10–14, and Greene CATS Public Transit is celebrating Ohio Loves Transit Day, Friday, Feb. 14, with free rides all day, thanks to an anonymous sponsor.

Yellow Springs Schools is one of the districts that has joined the growing coalition as it works to bring a lawsuit against the state — a lawsuit that questions the wisdom, and the fairness, of using public dollars to pay for private school tuition.

The News spoke this week with Antioch College President Jane Fernandes, who said of the designation: “It’s information that we have some financial work to do — that our financials are not just flowing, and now we have to make them work.”