Features

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  MORE COVERAGE | Next steps taken towards a Tom’s Market co-op

  
  
  

  A press release from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, on Monday, Feb. 23, said that the foundation had struck an agreement with Tom’s Market owner Jeff Gray, with the goal of “transitioning the business into a form of community ownership in approximately two years.”

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  Turner resigns from YSCCC

  
  
  

  The Board of Directors of Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center announced Tuesday, Feb. 17, that Executive Director Aillevrah Turner had submitted her resignation, effective immediately.

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  The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Winter decks the Hall

  
  
  

  “Our main sewage line froze and then un-blocked, miraculously. Then, this morning, the water lines to our kitchen froze, which is frustrating but not unexpected. Plumbers will be making a fortune when all this thaws out.”

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  ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ to return to village, one last time

  
  
  

  On Palm Sunday weekend, actor Ted Neeley will once again step into Little Art Theatre to screen the film to which he’s been inextricably tied in the title role for five decades, “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

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  State property tax laws to affect district’s budget forecast

  
  
  

  Yellow Springs Schools Treasurer Jacob McGrath told school board members at their Feb. 18 meeting that the district remains financially stable through the end of the decade. At the same time, he said the district faces growing uncertainty as new state property tax laws begin to affect both local revenues and the district’s future levy options.

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  Meet your new community paramedic

  
  
  

  Steffinie Brewer began work late last year as MTFR’s first community paramedic, a position Fire Chief James Cannell pitched to Township Trustees as a prevention-focused complement to the department’s ongoing emergency response work.

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  News from the Past: February 2026

  
  
  

  Contributing writer Don Hollister dove into the YS News archives to uncover past articles and more in his most recent installment of his News from the Past column.

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  Tom’s Market strikes co-op agreement

  
  
  

  A press release from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, Monday, Feb. 23, said that the foundation struck an agreement with Tom’s Market owner Jeff Gray with the goal of “transitioning the business into a form of community ownership in approximately two years.”

Sports

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  Bulldog Sports Round-Up | Feb. 27, 2026