At their most recent regular meeting, held Monday, July 21, the Miami Township Trustees agreed to allocate additional funds for cemetery expansion, approved text amendments to the Township’s zoning code and discussed the future of Township-placed defibrillators.

For the first time, Muse Machine’s Summer Institute for Educators was held in Yellow Springs, inside the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.

Late last month, Judge Jaiza Page of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas handed down a summary judgement ruling Ohio’s EdChoice voucher program as unconstitutional.

On Tuesday, July 15, YS police arrested a 21-year-old man in Kings Yard, later announcing on social media that the individual is likely connected to a series of downtown business break-ins and burglaries over the last month, including three between July 11 and 14.

If you could go back in time and change just one thing, what would it be? For the protagonist of villager Philip King’s debut novel/memoir, the answer is simple: He’d go back and make sure the Cleveland baseball team could clinch the 1950 World Series.

Five years ago, Yellow Springs’ biggest progressive dinner never made it to the table — but next month, it returns to finally fill local appetites: Feast for Friends, Friends Care Community’s longtime annual fundraiser, will be held Saturday, Aug. 23, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

“Public bodies have a duty to keep the public informed if they’re making major decisions that affect the public purse and public well-being,” Trustee Marilan Moir said.

Late Monday, June 30, Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s $60 billion, two-year budget and issued a slate of 67 line-item vetoes — including several that will, for now, keep YS Schools and public school districts across the state from major financial upheaval.

The WYSO news team recently returned from Kansas City, Missouri, where the team received one first-place and three second-place awards from the Public Media Journalists Association, or PMJA.

James R. Cannell Jr., a seasoned firefighter with more than three decades of experience at the Columbus Division of Fire, began Monday, June 30, what is planned to be a year-long tenure at the helm of Miami Township Fire-Rescue.