One of Yellow Springs’ most acclaimed and celebrated writers will have a homecoming of sorts next year: The late children’s author Virginia Hamilton will be honored with a literary festival in her name.

Many hands made light work of dismantling a human-made rock dam in the Little Miami River on Monday, Oct. 12.

After about an hour of discussion and some debate, Planning Commissioners ultimately voted to go forward with Holt’s recommendations — specifically to set a cap on the number of smoke shops in Yellow Springs at one per every 1,000 residents, and that they can be no closer than 300 feet “as the crow flies” to one another and any youth-centered establishment.

All Village operations and expenses for next year will necessitate a total budget of $19,715,334, with revenue coming in at an estimated $18,646,160.

On Monday evening, Oct. 12, former and beloved Yellow Springs High School social studies teacher Kevin Lydy will host another night of trivia at the brewery — this one, a special occasion, as he’s celebrating a year of schooling and stumping local drinkers and thinkers.

Deep in the northern reaches of Glen Helen, tucked just a few feet off the Inman Trail and between the Yellow Spring and the Cascades, is a prehistoric earthwork — a signature of the area’s early human inhabitants.

It’s been about two weeks since Jeff Sheridan started as Yellow Springs’ interim Village manager, and he’s already settling into the position, he told the News last week from his second-floor Bryan Center office.

At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Sept. 21, Village Council members voted affirmatively to accept the resignation of Village Manager Johnnie Burns, as well as to approve separation and consultation agreements with him.

Set for Wednesday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 4, the YS Film Fest’s nearly 30 events, programs  and films will take place on stages and screens across the village — at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater, Little Art Theatre, briefly on a closed-down Short Street and, new this year, 91.3 WYSO’s Union Schoolhouse. 

There’s no telling the number of do-si-does, promenades and swings the Corndrinkers have seen over the last half-century. To this day, the five-piece string band’s calendar is chock full of square dances and folk festivals, small-town gigs and unplugged jams.