Just a few minutes after 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 14, Miguel’s Poke Island opened for business. Gilah Pomeranz Anderson was the first customer through the door of the Dayton Street storefront, which previously housed The Greene Canteen.

Amid intermittent torrents of rain, and while the power was out throughout the entire village for several hours, the Yellow Springs Garden Tour took place on Sunday, July 17.

On Thursday, July 7, the Little Art Theatre showed the classic 1981 film “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” as a part of the theater’s ongoing “Adventures at the Little Art” series.

The mother-daughter pair of Karen and Megan McDonald recently bought the restaurant from longtime owner and operator B.J. Walters, who has been with the local pizza parlor for the last 25 years.

For the first time in two years, Antioch College alumni have returned to campus en masse to celebrate the college’s annual reunion this weekend.

After a two-year absence, Yellow Springs Street Fair is officially set to return this fall, on Saturday, Oct. 8.This will be the first Street Fair since fall 2019. The last five scheduled dates of the semiannual fair were canceled due to significant transmission rates of COVID-19 in the region and state.

At the Miami Township Trustees’ regular meeting on Monday, June 6, Trustee Chair Chris Mucher said the financial needs of the township’s fire department and emergency medical services have risen significantly in recent years.

For over half a century, at a number of local venues, bars, dances and stations, longtime villager and renowned disc jockey Gene Lohman has filled the sonic spaces of Yellow Springs with his eccentric and eclectic record spinning.

On Saturday, May 28, around 6 p.m., a mechanical failure at the Village’s municipal water and wastewater treatment plant led to nearly 750 gallons of sludge spilling out of the facility.

From naturalist-guided hikes around Glen Helen and Clifton Gorge, to a plant swap and a “Trails Day Celebration” at the village train station, the plethora of festivities brought droves of local environmentalists and Earth enthusiasts out to enjoy the warm weather.