A gym full of proud moms, dads, grandmas, aunts, uncles and friends attended the McKinney Middle School eighth-grade promotion ceremony on Wednesday, June 2, at the high school gym. Even a fierce thunderstorm and close lightning strikes couldn’t darken the mood of the 47 eighth-graders who received certificates of promotion that marked the passage from […]

Village of Yellow Springs Public Meetings, June 7–9, 2010

Village Council Meeting Agenda, Monday, June 7, 2010 , 7:00 p.m.

Village Council Retreat Agenda,Tuesday, June 8, 2010

A mixed crowd of adults and children watched attentively as dancers lunged up the library’s front steps with colorful umbrellas as props.

The Yellow Springs doubles team of Nicky Sontag and Will Turner made first-team honors in the Metro Buckeye Conference recently.

Jeanne Adams Beauman died December 24, 2009 at Madison County Hospital. She was 79. Jeanne was born January 5, 1930 in Springfield, the daughter of Rama and Florence Kerns Campbell. She was married to Robert Adams of Yellow Springs on June 17, 1955. She is survived by her children, Marsha Hickman and husband Tony and […]

Norman C. Legge died with family attending on May 14 at Friends Care Center. He was 83. Norman was born June 12, 1926, to Rev. Charles W. and Jean (Meyer) Legge in Stratton, Vt., and was raised in Greenwich, Conn. Norman married Lynnette J. Newland on Nov. 16, 1952. In 1944, he volunteered for service […]

Walter L. Cummings died Saturday, May 22. He was 105. Walter was born April 14, 1905, and grew to adulthood at his family’s farm on the Federal Pike, Greene County. He was the first son born to Arthur and Martha Hannaberry Cummings, joining an older sister, Lois, and later two younger brothers, Lloyd and Paul (Bus), who […]

Longtime village resident Edward Reit Eckenrode III, originally of Harrisburg, Pa., died peacefully at home on Tuesday night. The co-owner, with his wife Samantha, of the downtown store Sam and Eddie’s Open Books, Eddie struggled with cancer over the last several months. A memorial service is tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30, at […]