In decades past, a villager could walk through town and encounter a host of businesses owned by Black residents of Yellow Springs.

The business, which focuses on research and consulting around anthropometry — the study of the dimensions of the human body — changed hands in January of 2021.

For more than 40 years, the village-based nonprofit Feminist Health Fund has helped women around Greene County pay for a variety of health-related costs, funding everything from prescriptions to operations.

Seed steward Florentina Rodriguez debuted the Yellow Springs Community Seed Library last weekend, aiming to make that power available to everyone.

On Monday, Jan. 31, students in Heidi Hoover and Debra Mabra’s second grade classes at Mills Lawn Elementary School got a special virtual visit from author Gaia Cornwall.

“Though they were clean and well-lit, I recognized all of these printing elements as siblings of the dusty machines and implements that live in the dim back space of the YS News office.”

The YS Community Library will host an online presentation, “Carolyn Mazloomi: Changing Minds and Hearts Through Art,” on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 7–8 p.m., via Zoom.

The YS Chamber of Commerce announced last week via its website that it has canceled the 2022 spring Street Fair.

Over a blanket of snow, more than 100 villagers marched through downtown Yellow Springs in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march on Monday, Jan. 17.

Villagers kicked off the new year differently as they moved into 2021; with the annual ball drop canceled due to the ongoing pandemic.