On Friday, July 19, local funny guy, motivational speaker and improvisational performer Justin Howard took to a makeshift stage in Yellow Springs Hardware to act out an hour-long scene that featured him, and him alone.

Last month, Columbus-based real estate developer Windsor Companies purchased the vacant Antioch Student Union for $500,000.

The YS Baking Co. is opening up a new, brick-and-mortar bakery and cafe at 108 Dayton St.

The parade and fireworks planned for the annual Fourth of July celebration, which were canceled due to inclement weather, will be rescheduled for Saturday, Aug. 3, and will be combined with the Village’s annual Touch-A-Truck event to form YS Community Day.

Village native Elyse Giardullo, 31, was hired last month as the Village project lead — a new job housed in the Village offices, upstairs in the John Bryan Community Center.

At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, July 15, Council members again revisited the topic of pursuing a tax credit application that could one day lead to the creation of a 50-unit, low-income housing development on the YS school district-owned soccer fields.

Following a two-year rehabbing plan that went into motion last summer, crews began draining every last drop in the second and south-most of the Village’s two municipal water towers at Gaunt Park on Tuesday, July 9.

Over the last blazing-hot week, local artist Pierre Nagley has put the beginning strokes on a new mural — one dedicated to those affected by the ongoing Israel-Hamas War.

If, in the coming months, all the local stakeholders agree that the Morgan Fields are, in fact, the best site to build the future housing development, then where would all the soccer players go?

Jeff Eyrich, who has served as both the district’s athletic director and its director of operations for the last four years, will move fully into the latter role, with Shawna Welch taking up the mantle of athletic director as her full-time charge.