Lights! Cameras! Action! These and much more are on the four-day docket of the annual Yellow Springs Film Festival, which is set to return for its third year, Thursday–Sunday, Oct. 2–5.

At Council’s meeting last week, several villagers and Council members expressed their dismay with the Village’s compliance with Gov. DeWine’s order to lower the municipal flag in honor of Charlie Kirk.

For the 2025–2026 academic year, Antioch enrolled 115 degree-seeking students, down from 121 last fall. Of those 115 students, 42 are new to Antioch, 70 are continuing students and three are returning, or re-admitted.

Labor Day marked the end of pool season in Yellow Springs. But before Gaunt Park staffers drained the only public pool in Greene County, they let local hounds take a dip.

On Friday, Aug. 29, members from the Yellow Springs-based nonprofit StoryChain made good on their promise to deliver a recording of an incarcerated voice to his family on the outside.

On Sunday evening, Aug. 31, local jockeys Shane Creepingbear and Basim Blunt duked it out on Short Street in a battle of the DJs.

The aim of the proposed amendment was to modify the zoning code provision that prohibits a TGL from being closer 500 feet than to another TGL which is presently measured from the closest property line to closest property line, to a measurement made from the roadway.

On Monday, Sept. 15, Village Council gave a first reading to an ordinance that, if passed at a future meeting following a second reading and public hearing, would accept annexation terms from Miami Township of a 28.3-acre property. 

After about 10 months of serving up saucy and smoky Americana fare in the southern reaches of the village, Yellow Springs Smokehouse cut its final brisket earlier in September.

The Safety Patrol program has been a longstanding tradition for Yellow Springs Schools — at least since the early 1970s, as far as the News can tell — and enthusiasm has only grown. Program coordinator and fourth-grade teacher Jocelyn Bailey said that with 20 volunteers, this year’s crop may be the biggest ever.