Features

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  Review | Kiser’s resonant ‘Sunday People’

  
  
  

  “On Sarvis Mountain, as everywhere, stories tightly bound together remain each teller’s own. Eastern Kentucky’s parochial and progressive characters honor and defy stereotype, living interesting, human lives.”

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  My Name Is Iden | Where Anne went

  
  
  

  “The danger to transgender people in this country is real, and the need to stand up and fight alongside us is urgent. We are a small group. We need our allies.”

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  News from the Past: March 2025

  
  
  

  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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  The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Life’s what you make it — celebrate it

  
  
  

  “I now feel like walking Archie rather than just hiding under a pile of tissues while watching Crufts dog show. I hope the little Jack Russell terrier wins best in show; it’s a very sweet little firecracker of a dog.”

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  Dealing with death, once a month

  
  
  

  “Discussing Our Own Death” meets on the third Saturday of each month, 3:30–5 p.m., in the Senior Center Great Room; meetings are announced in the News’ “Local Events” column and on the Senior Center’s website, ysseniors.org.

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  Eye on the Economy | Yellow Springs business owners respond to inflation, tariffs

  
  
  

  How are our small-town shops, stores and services weathering this economic moment? To what extent have rising costs fallen on the consumer — villager and visitor alike? And what, ultimately, can be done to mitigate the worst effects?

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  Gronbeck formally sentenced to five years probation

  
  
  

  Former Yellow Springs physician Donald Gronbeck was formally sentenced to up to five years probation Friday, March 21, in Greene County Common Pleas Court.

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  Senior Center to host tai chi, qi gong classes for all

  
  
  

  Master Gao Sen — a nine-time world champion in wushu (martial arts) and a seventh-degree black-belt master in tai chi, qi gong and wushu — will offer two free trial classes Sunday, March 30, at the Senior Center.

Obituaries

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  Max Laverne Lake
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  Robert Francis Holland

Featured Photos

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  Facing headwinds