In spite of several challenges, the Grammy® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet persevered last Sunday, March 23, in their Chamber Music Yellow Springs’s performance of contemporary works for winds.

Trio Zimbalist — George Ziayoyuan Fu, piano; Josef Špaˇcek, violin; and Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin, cello — performed the opening concert in the Chamber Music in Yellow Springs 2024–25 series.

On Friday, Aug. 16, local resident Gilah Pomeranz Anderson continued her annual tradition of making fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches in front of the downtown hardware store.

YSHS Seniors got the traditional clap out on Friday, May 19, as they filed by family and fellow students, faculty and staff lining the halls.

On New Year’s Eve, the village celebrated both the nascent 2023 and the return of the ball drop, deftly handled by villager Lance Rudegeair, pictured in a cloud of confetti; the annual event has not been held since the transition from 2019 to 2020.

Last Sunday, Father’s Day, a young cardinal fledgling got some much needed assistance from father in a backyard scenario that plays out every year.

The planned park, Ohio’s 76th, will aim to to preserve and highlight Oldtown, the site of one of the largest-known Shawnee settlements in Ohio, often cited by historians as the birthplace of Tecumseh.

The YSHS One Acts — short plays written, directed and acted by students — were revived this year by Rosemary Burmester, who produced and coordinated the plays for her senior project.

As part of her senior project, YSHS senior Rosemary Burmester is directing this year’s One Acts, which will be performed Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11 and 12, beginning at 7:30 p.m., at the Clifton Opera House.

The job is a dusty one, requiring the removal of old loose mortar through chipping and grinding, mostly by hand, then filling in the spaces with fresh mortar and powdered lime — at 80 feet up and 90°F temperatures.