Lauren Shows was born to a preacher and a preacher's wife, and spent the majority of her earliest childhood years rollin' 'round the bible belt, to end up in Panama City, Florida. After graduating from Florida State University in Tallahassee, she spent the next several months in existential crisis, making lattes for snowbirds and spring-breakers, before moving to Kentucky to get an MFA in writing from Spalding University. A chance meeting at Spalding landed her in Yellow Springs. She was graciously hired by the News, though her only previous dealing with newspaper publication was in third grade, when she wrote a story about a bunch of skeletons rising from the dead on Halloween, which was printed in the Owenton News-Herald. Lauren enjoys cheese, giant squid, and Michael J. Fox.

• GravityWorks takes to the air in ‘She Grows Wings’

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 9, 2024

  

  GravityWorks Circus will take to the air for the first time in their home venue, the Foundry Theater, with a trio of performances this month. “She Grows Wings” will be performed Friday and Saturday, July 12 and 13, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, July 14, at 2 p.m.

• Phillip O’Rourke named Chamber of Commerce executive director

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 1, 2024

  

  The YS Chamber of Commerce announced this week that it has hired local resident Phillip O’Rourke to serve as its executive director, beginning July 1.

• Mad River Theater Works | ‘Mysteries’ in youth theater

  By Lauren ShowsJune 27, 2024

  

  This year, the summer residency focuses on the theme of “Mystery.” Over 10 days, the students have explored the theme through discussions, games, exercises and collaborative vignettes.

• School board updates facilities design

  By Lauren Shows

  

  The facilities improvement project is slated to begin construction in January 2025, with completion expected by August 2026.

• Incarcerated chorus sings out in ‘Les Mis Inside’

  By Lauren ShowsJune 25, 2024

  

  Under the direction of local resident Catherine Roma, the NIA Men’s Chorus at Chillicothe Correctional Institution performed “Les Mis Inside,” a pared-down version of the popular musical with choral arrangements.

• Yellow Springer Krista Magaw to run for Ohio House

  By Lauren ShowsJune 18, 2024

  

  Villager Krista Magaw is running as the Democratic candidate for representative of Ohio House District 71, which encompasses all of Clinton County, the eastern half of Greene County — including Yellow Springs — and a southern portion of Clark County.

• School board approves substitute levy

  By Lauren ShowsJune 15, 2024

  

  The substitute levy, if passed at the polls Nov. 5, would not constitute new revenue from local voters, but would combine and continue for 10 years annual revenue of $1,975,000 already collected by two emergency levies passed in 2015 and 2017, which are set to expire in 2025.

• ‘The Outside Presents’ wraps up first season of free experimental music shows

  By Lauren ShowsJune 10, 2024

  

  Experimental music performance series “The Outside Presents,” which has found its home in the Foundry Theater’s black box space, will go live with the final show of its first season Monday, June 10.

• Horror-comedy filmed in Yellow Springs

  By Lauren ShowsJune 9, 2024

  

  Movie magic was in the village air last month, when a five-day shoot for a short film was held at a home on the south end of town.

• Request to censure school board member fails

  By Lauren ShowsJune 8, 2024

  

  At a special meeting of the YS school board Tuesday, May 21, a request to censure a member of the board that was originally put forth in February was not approved, as one member abstained from voting and the vote count was 2–2.