The words of Edgar Allan Poe are set to haunt local audiences this weekend, as Yellow Springs Middle and High School thespians will stage “Shuddersome: Tales of Poe,” a one-hour adaptation of some of Poe’s most chilling works, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, at First Presbyterian Church.

On Sunday, Oct. 26, from 2–4 p.m., the two nonprofits will co-host a square dance fundraiser at the Glen’s Camp Greene. The event will feature live music from beloved area old-time band The Corndrinkers, with longtime caller Ceal Turnbull leading the dances.

“Trustees briefly reviewed correspondence from the Greene County Board of Commissioners announcing that the board had decided to temporarily roll back 0.5 mills of inside, unvoted millage in response to ‘a significant jump in property taxes last year.'”

After nearly six years leading First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs, the Rev. Daria Schaffnit will step down at the end of October to become associate pastor at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Dayton.

Earlier this year, villager Amy Wamsley swam 21 miles across the English Channel, in 16 hours and 56 minutes. She had fulfilled a promise she’d made to herself as a child: to swim the Channel the year she turned 50.

Yellow Springs resident Valerie Koshelef plans to bring to life Georges Seurat’s 1884 painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” on Sunday, Oct. 12, as a tableau vivant, or living picture.

Though the new contract is cause to celebrate with regard to expanded access for patients, Executive Director Mike Montgomery said that, as an independent, nonprofit facility, Friends Care is always challenged by financial needs.

On Tuesday, Sept. 9, the Bulldog News at Mills Lawn made its first live broadcast since 2020. Now, every school day, a rotating group of four sixth graders — two anchors and two technical crew — go live at 8:05 a.m. in the school’s STEM classroom.

Miami Township Trustees discussed an upcoming Miami Township Fire-Rescue levy at their most recent meeting Monday, Sept. 15, with the trustees highlighting the renewal as a major item on the Nov. 4 ballot.

At the most recent school board meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, Superintendent Terri Holden announced plans to recommend that the district change the official name of McKinney Middle School next month.