Features

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  After more than 50 years, Ohio Silver Company to close

  
  
  

  After 54 years, Ohio Silver Co. — one of downtown Yellow Springs’ longest-operating businesses — is closing. Marcia Wallgren, who has owned the fair-trade jewelry store since 1974, is retiring.

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  New general manager at Springs Market

  
  
  

  Since Aug. 2, dairy and frozen foods manager Erica Rodriguez-Wyant has taken on the role as general manager, overseeing the 30-some employees and keeping Yellow Springs’ longtime downtown grocery store up and running.

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  Villager offers fresh cuts, paid forward

  
  
  

  Beginning this month, villager Jason Laveck has committed to providing two free haircuts each month from his chair at In Salon, located at 120 Dayton St., and donations to a fund he’s established will cover additional free haircuts.

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  News from the Past: July 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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  Room for all on the Perry League diamond

  
  
  

  The league operates under a few simple and unique rules: there are no teams, no assigned positions, no batting order, and every batter gets 1,000 strikes.

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  Gov. DeWine announces sales tax holiday

  
  
  

  Gov. Mike DeWine has announced the dates for this year’s sales tax holiday: midnight Friday, Aug. 7, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.

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  YS Senior Center— Sale of Livermore property falls through ahead of expected close

  
  
  

  The YS Senior Center reported this week that the planned sale of its Livermore Street property has fallen through, leaving the nonprofit with what it described in a press release as a “critical, $325K shortfall” as a deadline approaches for its purchase of 108 Cliff St.

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  Village of Yellow Springs launches redesigned website

  
  
  

  The Village of Yellow Springs launched a redesigned municipal website at about 2 p.m. Monday, July 27.