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.

• Stay active, connected in quarantine

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 31, 2020

  

  How can individuals stay active, physically, mentally and socially, and stay connected when it’s so important to remain physically distant from others?

• Reprise— Battle, Lopez return for concert

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 7, 2020

  

  Mark Battle and George Lopez will perform Friday, March 13, beginning at 7 p.m. in Antioch College’s Herndon Gallery. Donations to benefit YSYOA will be taken at the door. For more information, visit http://www.ysyoa.org.

• Spring forward — a little history on Daylight Saving Time

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 4, 2020

  

  Most of the continental United States will spend a bleary-eyed morning this coming Sunday, March 8, as Daylight Saving Time returns, requiring all villagers to set their clocks one hour ahead — and potentially get to bed an hour earlier — on Saturday night. But who to thank — or blame — for the annual time change?

• February 13, 2020 — Bulldog Sports Round-Up

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 13, 2020

  

  February 13, 2020 — Bulldog Sports Round-Up

• Villagers bring home Oscar

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 11, 2020

  

  “American Factory,” the documentary film by villagers and filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert, won the Oscar for “Best Documentary Feature” at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 9.

• Former villager rounds up locals to ‘dance PhD’

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 10, 2020

  

  What’s the best way to connect with the public on the basics of an area of scientific research? Through dance, of course.

• From the Archives: The winter the tower exploded

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 7, 2020

  

  On Sunday, Jan. 31, 1977, the water tower at Gaunt Park — there was only one then — had blown a seam and released a million gallons of water into the park.

• 2019 Year in Review: Arts

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 2, 2020

  

  2019 Year in Review: Arts

• The Decade in Review: Arts

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Yellow Springs 2010–2019: Arts

• The Oberufer Plays— Remembering a holiday tradition

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 20, 2019

  

  Both “The Nativity and Shepherd’s Play” and “The Paradise Play” are examples of the mystery play or miracle play — a recreation of a Bible story, presented in tableaux in medieval times, and one of the earliest types of formal play.