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Articles About Fourth of July

  • Tale of two flags

    By YS News StaffJuly 5, 2018

    Nerak Roth Patterson parades his red convertible through downtown at 2018's Fourth of July parade (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    The Yellow Springs’ Pride and Fourth of July parades in pictures by Diane Chiddister, Karen Wintrow and Matthew Collins. 

  • Fourth of July: Crowds, not clouds

    By Matt MindeJuly 6, 2017

    The 2017 Fourth of July Parade, from the back. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Clouds threatened rain, but that didn’t stop hundreds of villagers who lined Xenia Avenue downtown Tuesday for the annual Fourth of July parade.

  • July 4th in my hometown

    By Guest Contributor

    Up next was the YS Kids Playhouse in the long line of 4th of July paraders down Xenia Avenue. The day was rounded out by a spectacular fireworks display at Gaunt Park (Photo by Matt Minde)

    For many years—though my parents live a block from downtown, where the parade takes place—I didn’t go to it. I’m not a big parade person.

  • Old symbols fly, burn on 4th of July

    By Lauren HeatonJuly 16, 2015

    As thousands attended last Saturday’s 4th of July fireworks at Gaunt Park, about 30 members of the Greene County Black Lives Matter group burned a Confederate flag in protest of recent church burnings, the Charleston massacre of nine African Americans, and the police shooting last year of John Crawford in the Beavercreek Walmart. Shown above is group member Talis Gage. (Photo by Aaron Zaremsky)

    As American flags waved all around town on Saturday, July 4, one Confederate flag, a former symbol of the American South, burned as a reminder of the lack of freedom many black citizens have suffered since the Civil War and before.

  • Fireworks on again

    By YS News StaffJune 30, 2013

    The rescheduled Yellow Springs Independence Day parade will take place today, July 6, at 3 p.m.

  • Fireworks on the Fourth

    By Megan BachmanJuly 5, 2012

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    Click here for more photos from the July 4 fireworks display.

  • 2012 Fourth of July festivities

    By Matt MindeJuly 4, 2012

    Yellow Springs will celebrate Independence day with a parade, a patriotic band concert and, of course, fireworks.

  • Fourth of July festivities

    By YS News StaffJuly 1, 2011

    Yellow Springs will celebrate Independence day with a parade, a patriotic band concert and, of course, fireworks.