Around 40 people gathered at Mills Park Hotel on Sunday, April 24, to hear Vocal Vortex and celebrate Ron Siemer’s 82nd birthday. Click below to hear a clip of the performance and look inside the new hotel.

Tomorrow, on Record Store Day, Crazy Joe will debut a new, previously unreleased track, “Enon Beach,” at at reunion show with the Mad River Outlaws. Read on for an interview with Crazy Joe about the new track, which was pressed into a seven-inch vinyl record.

Villagers are invited to come out for “Drum, Dance and Draw: A Celebration of Black Culture” on Saturday, April 16, 2–5 p.m. in the Mills Lawn Gym. The event will feature West African drumming, dance instruction and cartooning for grades K–6.

The YS Arts Council will host its monthly Arts Alive! event this Saturday, where origami artist will teach participants to fold paper cranes. The event is part of a larger village effort to fold 1,000 paper cranes as a symbol of peace.

The YS News has come under fire recently for what some perceive as sloppy grammatical standards and practices.

The annual community Easter egg hunt was held this Saturday, March 26, at Gaunt Park.

Mills Lawn students celebrated Peace Week last week, as part of the school’s annual Project Peace campaign.

Lauren “Chuck” Shows says a few words about bears.

The concepts of rudeness and politeness are very neatly ingrained in many cultures, yet the reasons behind them can be so difficult to explain to a child.

Ohio University’s Premier Men’s Choir, the Singing Men of Ohio, will perform at the First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, March 5, beginning at 7 p.m.