Glen Helen’s long lost, but fondly remembered hanging bridge over the Yellow Springs Creek still swings in the memories of many village locals. Present Glen Director Nick Boutis said earlier this week the bridge was likely one of the pet projects of former director Ken Hunt as he developed the trail system throughout the preserve in the 1940s and ‘50s. Over the decades, there were several bridges constructed at this location — each designed to be sturdier than the last, but vulnerable to vandalism, Boutis said. The last bridge was demolished some time in the late ‘90s or early aughts. (News archive photo, 1985)
News from the Past: November 2025
- Published: December 1, 2025
75 years ago: 1950
Committee for Racial Equality: “105 members of the Yellow Springs Committee for Racial Equality [C.O.R.E.] met at Glen House Monday night and selected the group’s executive committee for the coming year.”
Foundry Theater announcement: “The Yellow Springs Area Theatre has had no home for more than a year now. In that time we have gone on stubbornly producing shows — sometimes in the Dayton Art Institute, sometimes in the Antioch College gymnasium, sometimes in the Little [Art] Theatre, at auditoriums of various schools and organizations, and even out-of-doors. But now we have a splendid building — new home — a one hundred thousand dollar roof over our heads, the new Theatre Arts Building on the Antioch campus.Vacated by the Morris Bean Foundry, this structure will make one of the finest modern theatres in the country…”
Door-to-door scrap pickup: “A house-to-house scrap drive will be held … by the local schools. … Paper, rags, iron, etc. will be collected.”
TV show field trip: “Mrs. William Struewing, Mrs. Louis Struewing, Mrs. Romilda Fink, Mrs. Charles Hawkins, and Mrs. Marilyn Bennett attended the Ruth Lyons radio and television broadcast in Cincinnati Tuesday.”
Parking meters: “The Village Council voted unanimously Monday night to authorize a survey of local streets by representatives of the Dual Parking Meter Co. to see whether or how the use of parking meters would ease present parking congestion.”
50 years ago: 1975
Reveal Illegal FBI Plot to Smear Antioch: “A Federal Bureau of Investigation plan to discredit Antioch College was among the illegal activities of the FBI and CIA exposed in the documents released by the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee the past week.”
Arthur Morgan Passes at 97: “Arthur E. Morgan, Yellow Springs’ most illustrious citizen of the 20th century, died at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.”
Elementary football: “Pee Wee football celebrates homecoming Saturday with a 4 p.m. game with the Cedarville Wee Indians on the High School athletic field.”
Clifton blank ballot: “No one in Clifton filed petitions to run for village posts on the November ballot.”
Airplane noise: “The recent hearing in Springfield over plans to increase air traffic at Springfield Airport, with a resulting increased noise level over Yellow Springs, is just an indication that the effort to control aircraft noise must be a continuing one.”
35 years ago: 1990
Coffee shop turnover: “Friends and customers of Don and Marly Boles packed into the Village Coffee Shop [aka Dick and Tom’s, now Sunrise Cafe] on Saturday afternoon for a celebration in honor of Donald and Mary, who are retiring this month after running the coffee shop for the last ten years.”
School levy fails: “For only the second time ever, a Yellow Springs school levy has failed to pass. Voters in Tuesday’s election defeated a proposed 1 percent income tax by an overwhelming margin, 60 percent No to 40 percent Yes.”
Wet college party: “At the Halloween party this year, the community government of Antioch College spent $210 on beer, and only $40 on soda and other non-alcoholic beverages.”
Elementary dog show: “The Village Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring a dog show Sunday … at Bryan Community Center for village residents 7–12 years of age.”
25 years ago: 2000
Silver anniversary for Village Charter: “Fifty years ago [1950] Yellow Springs voters were asked to approve a Village Charter creating a new form of local government — the council-manager form. The vote was close, with villagers approving the new form of government by a vote of 548–507.”
Council, trustees donate funds for farm auction: “Village Council and the Miami Township trustees have agreed to give money toward the Tecumseh Land Trust’s efforts to place conservation easements on a small farm that will be sold at auction next week. On Monday, Julia Cady, president of the land trust, asked both Council and the trustees to spend $14,500 each to purchase easements on 58 acres of farmland. The land is located in Miami Township on state route 370, just south of state route 343.”
Dog escaped: “A dog with a chain and ground anchor hanging from its neck was found on West South College Street Monday of last week and returned to its owner on Omar Circle.”
10 years ago: 2015
New college president: “Thomas Manley, the current president of the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, has been chosen [as] the new president of Antioch College. Dr. Manley will be the second president at the revived Antioch, following Mark Roosevelt.”
Glen Helen forever: “Community members and staff from Glen Helen, Tecumseh Land Trust, the Trust for Public Land and Antioch College celebrated the permanent preservation of all 1,000 acres of the Glen on Sunday, Nov. 8. Glen Helen Director Nick Boutis thanked the Glen’s collaborators for a ‘10 year odyssey’ that secured conservation easements for ‘every inch’ of the preserve. ‘What we thought of as protected land wasn’t, but now it is,’ he said.”
Revised budget back in the red again: “Village Council’s recent decision to finish downtown streetscape improvements in 2016 has tipped the general fund budget back into the red by roughly a quarter million dollars.”
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