Ahead of the second meeting of every month, Council will hold a one-hour work session to allow Council members and Village staff better plan for and understand topics related to forthcoming legislation. 

“This modern slave patrol is barging into homes, busting out windows, kidnapping workers from restaurants, barging into private spaces with all the violence they can muster, with bad tempers and prejudices holstered in their belts.”

On Wednesday night, Jan. 14, around 250 villagers packed First Presbyterian Church’s Westminster Hall to mull over the future of Tom’s Market. It was a town hall hosted by the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, and the first public opportunity for local residents to weigh in on the possibility of the downtown grocery becoming a cooperatively operated market, or a co-op.

Flocks of keen-eyed hikers, veteran birders and pedestrian ornithologists fanned out across 48 Greene County sites on Saturday, Jan. 3, with a straight-forward mission of logging every bird they saw.

YSDC, a quasi-governmental nonprofit and community improvement corporation, bought the adjoining properties from the trustees of the estate of the late Bob Baldwin for $630,000 — money loaned to YSDC from Yellow Springs Community Foundation.

Village resident Ena Nearon lauded outgoing Mayor Pam Conine for her eight years of service as Mayor; Nearon read a proclamation — laden with the classic “whereases” that Conine loves so dearly.

These mid-December days may be dark, but downtown Yellow Springs still shines with the spirit of the season — to great fanfare and rosy cheeks aplenty, the holiday tree went up in lights on Saturday, Dec. 6.

“Crazy” Joe Tritschler lived up to his manic moniker on Tuesday, Dec. 30, as he and his rockabilly trio of Mad River Outlaws tore up the Peach’s stage to mark the 21st anniversary of the venue’s open mic night.

New elects Stephanie Pearce, Angie Hsu and Senay Semere joined continuing Council members Gavin DeVore Leonard and Carmen Brown. This is the youngest sitting Council in at least 20 years.

The New Year’s Eve ball drop that ushered Yellow Springs into 2026 was villager Lance Rudegeair’s last. The annual tradition — and the bedazzled disco ball itself — have been passed onto Dan Badger, who will drop the village into 2027 and beyond.