Features

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  Tin Can Economy | Apparently some definitions mean little

  
  
  

  “This modern slave patrol is barging into homes, busting out windows, kidnapping workers from restaurants, barging into private spaces with all the violence they can muster, with bad tempers and prejudices holstered in their belts.”

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  Favorite Yellow Springs Memories, Pt. III

  
  
  

  “We continue with our third installment of readers’ favorite Yellow Springs memories this week, and hope they bring some warmth to the winter chill.”

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  The Patterdale Hall Diaries | The wilderness years

  
  
  

  “It will remain below freezing for three more days and then we get a reprieve. I’ll continue lighting fires at the Hall, but am unlikely to stay out overnight because of the toilet situation.”

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  Dispose of your meds, safely

  
  
  

  The box is the result of a collaboration between the YS Police Department, local resident Emma Robinow and Odd Fellows Lodge #279, and is designed to safely collect prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and even vitamins.

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  Ohio’s first measles outbreak of the year reported

  
  
  

  On Jan. 9, Ohio Department of Health Director Bruce Vanderhoff reported the state’s first measles cases and outbreak of 2026.

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  School board considers new times for school day

  
  
  

  Having settled this first-of-the-year business, Superintendent Terri Holden later opened discussion about another proposed timing change: a later start for Mills Lawn students and an earlier one for YS Middle and High School students beginning next school year.

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  New highs for county bird count

  
  
  

  Flocks of keen-eyed hikers, veteran birders and pedestrian ornithologists fanned out across 48 Greene County sites on Saturday, Jan. 3, with a straight-forward mission of logging every bird they saw.

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  Yellow Springs Development Corporation purchases downtown buildings

  
  
  

  YSDC, a quasi-governmental nonprofit and community improvement corporation, bought the adjoining properties from the trustees of the estate of the late Bob Baldwin for $630,000 — money loaned to YSDC from Yellow Springs Community Foundation.

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  Village to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day — march cancelled, indoor program still on

  
  
  

  The annual march through downtown, which was scheduled to step off at about 9:45 a.m., has been cancelled due to chilly temperatures in the forecast. The indoor MLK Day programming will continue as planned at 11 a.m. in the Bryan Center gymnasium.

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  Young thespians stage ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

  
  
  

  “The Diary of Anne Frank” is set to run its final two performances Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, after an opening performance Thursday, Jan. 15.

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  Electrical fire at Lawson Place home

  
  
  

  Just after 2 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, a resident at 11 Lawson Place noticed that an outside wall of their home had caught fire and called 911. According to Fire Chief James Cannell, MTFR firefighters were “on the scene within five minutes.”

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  Yellow Springs Pharmacy ‘here for long haul’

  
  
  

  After an unexpected closure that lasted two days earlier this week, Yellow Springs Pharmacy is “going nowhere,” staffers told the News on Friday. The location will maintain its regular hours of Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Sports

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  Bulldog Sports Round-Up | Jan. 16, 2025