Aug. 1979: Pony passengers Demetrius Taylor (in the driver’s seat with a cool treat) and Miguel Lewis took a four-legged ride through downtown, and turned a couple heads as they passed Dick & Tom’s at the corner of Xenia Avenue and Glen Street. (News archive photo by Don Wallis)
News from the Past: August 2025
- Published: October 16, 2025
75 years ago: 1950
New Nosker patent. “Announcement was made by the U.S. Patent Office last week that a patent has been granted Paul W. Nosker … on a remote-control system. The device enables an operator to control a plane, automobile, or any other mechanically operated vehicle by transmitting command signals by radio, Mr. Nosker said. The patent is his fourth.”
Rummage sale for police radio. “Appointment of a third man to the Yellow Springs police force launched a campaign … to raise $600 for the purchase of a two-way radio for the new patrolman, Ernest Lewis … A campaign to collect rummage of all kinds and to raise funds from an auction of the rummage has been decided upon…”
“Day Camp Pet Show Held. Dogs, cats, tomato worms, toads, dolls of every size and description — Mills Lawn looked like a three-ring circus Monday morning as the children of the Day Camp paraded their dressed-up animals and dolls before the judges…”
50 years ago: 1975
Utility bills may jump. “An audience that packed the public meeting room of the public library Thursday heard Village officials only part way through before they shouted down attempts to explain the need for increased electrical, water and sewer rates…”
Affordable housing. “A hearing on Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority’s proposal to build 15 units of housing on Corry St. for low and middle income families will be held Monday…”
Headlines: “Recommend Closing Local Rail Line;” “May Double Rates for Water, Sewer;” “Bible School Next Week;” “Break-ins Continue to Plague Village.”
35 years ago: 1990
Hugh Livingston. “Twenty-five years a policeman. Livingston joked about one of the early village laws he was supposed to know when he first became a police officer. He quoted it in full, ‘If a person is riding a horse after dark, he has to be preceded by a person with a white lantern and followed by a person with a red lantern.’”
Bar behavior. “Village police report they have recently received a high volume of complaints about the behavior of customers at local bars…”
Teacher retires. “Faith Patterson is concluding her long and active career as an educator. Her school, Faith’s Place, is closing after nine years… She taught kindergarten at The Antioch School, 1969-81. Previously she taught in Japan, Germany, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland…”
25 years ago: 2000
GHA 40th anniversary. “The Glen Helen Association will celebrate its 40th anniversary Oct. 6 and 7… Among the guests expected are Jean Sanford Replinger, the first ‘school camp’ [OEC] director, former Glen Helen Director Ralph Ramey and Glen botany author Fred Anliot, as well as local residents Joan Horn and Bob Parker, former OEC directors. The keynote speaker Steve Curwood grew up in Yellow Springs.”
Recall election. “This week the Greene County Board of Elections officially announced that a recall election in Yellow Springs will take place on Tuesday, October 3rd. Last week the board verified that the Concerned Citizens Coalition had gathered enough signatures to hold a recall election of Council President Stephanie Slowinski and member Trudy Abrams.”
Dogs ran free. “Police found that what sounded like someone trying to get into a Xenia Avenue residence at around 1:30 a.m. Thursday of last week was a neighbor dog attempting to visit the resident dog.”
10 years ago: 2015
Cemex wins zoning battle “Fairborn City Council unanimously voted to rezone 450 acres of land from agriculture to mining, overturning an earlier ruling by that city’s planning board… The rezoning is necessary because minerals [limestone] required for the company’s cement product have diminished in its current mining locations, with enough remaining for only seven more years… With the rezoning, the company will have adequate resources for 40 more years…”
Bill Houston. “Longtime villager Bill Houston, 86, died on Monday, Aug. 17, while hiking in the Canadian Rockies. An obituary will be in an upcoming paper.”
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