On Saturday, April 25, local resident and famed comedian Dave Chappelle’s merch shop — dubbed The Chappelle Shop — started doing business inside his newly renovated commercial building at 221 Xenia Ave.

Lasting about two hours, the event was an effort by Chappelle to publicly share some of his plans with Yellow Springs for his ongoing and envisioned commercial projects — mostly in the downtown business district.

Ohio voters head to the polls next week on Tuesday, May 5, for the state’s primary election. All Yellow Springs residents vote at Antioch University Midwest at 900 Dayton St., 6:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m.

Council and Village staff members gathered for a six-hour retreat on Thursday, April 9, to drill down on all matters housing-related in the village.

Yellow Springs Community Foundation staffers and local stakeholders are pushing ahead with plans to facilitate the transition of Tom’s Market into a community-owned, cooperatively-run downtown grocery store.

Yellow Springs resident Kristina Knickerbocker, 35, seeks to represent the 10th Congressional District, which includes all of Montgomery County, Greene County, some of Clark County, and after redistricting last year, northeast Butler County.

The Ohio Poetry Association will hold its fifth biannual Sun and Moon Poetry Festival Friday–Sunday, May 15–17. Registration ends April 22. The nature-centered poetry festival is a weekend-long slate of writing workshops, readings, nature walks and panel discussions.

Yellow Springs-based Open Air Village — an outdoor-based program, equal parts daycare and preschool — sought approval to headquarter and run the business at 1333 President Street.

Columbus-based developer Windsor Companies sought from Village Council up to another year to submit final development plans for their proposed planned unit development, or PUD, for market-rate apartments.

Agraria has narrowed its operational focus to four areas: enacting farm-scale permaculture practices, building local ecological knowledge, fostering citizen science and reskilling to preserve traditional practices.