Features

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  Randolph gets Peacemaker Award

  
  
  

  To thunderous applause and cheers from the hundreds of villagers packed in the John Bryan Center gym on Monday, Jan. 19 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — longtime villager and Community Outreach Specialist Florence Randolph received the year’s Peacemaker Award.

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  Ohio Arts Council award funds new work for Casselli

  
  
  

  “Landline” is taking shape to live up to similar descriptions. The core image of the in-progress work is simple: glowing forms hovering in a line outdoors, sized and spaced uniformly so that they reveal the rising and falling shape of the land they cross.

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  Yellow Springs High School alumna unearths ‘Yesterday’s YS’

  
  
  

  An internship at the YS Chamber of Commerce has turned into an unexpected deep dive into the village’s midcentury streetscape — and, now, a public historical photo project.

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  ‘Retrospective’ to be on display at The Winds

  
  
  

  Katherine Kadish’s “Retrospective” — an exhibition of her work from 1960 to 2025 — is now on display at The Winds Café. The show includes etchings, wood block prints, oil paintings, pastels and monotypes.

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  Ready, set, date!

  
  
  

  All eligible singles in the Miami Valley area are invited to a casual evening of speed dating on Thursday, Feb. 5, 7–9 p.m., at Peach’s Grill, 104 Xenia Ave., in Yellow Springs.

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  Future roundabout at 68 and Fairfield?

  
  
  

  The Ohio Department of Transportation is seeking public input for safety improvements at the intersection of U.S. 68 and Fairfield Pike — about five miles north of Yellow Springs municipal limits. 

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  Tom’s Market co-op model comes into view

  
  
  

  On Wednesday night, Jan. 14, around 250 villagers packed First Presbyterian Church’s Westminster Hall to mull over the future of Tom’s Market. It was a town hall hosted by the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, and the first public opportunity for local residents to weigh in on the possibility of the downtown grocery becoming a cooperatively operated market, or a co-op.