Features

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  News from the Past: September & October 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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  Tonwship Trustees address county millage roll-back

  
  
  

  “Trustees briefly reviewed correspondence from the Greene County Board of Commissioners announcing that the board had decided to temporarily roll back 0.5 mills of inside, unvoted millage in response to ‘a significant jump in property taxes last year.'”

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  In the shadow of giants

  
  
  

  “The shade cast by the Logan Elm would have covered two-thirds of an acre and it was considered one of the largest elms in the nation at one point.”

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  Council approves 28-acre annexation, subdivision expansion expected

  
  
  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Oct. 6, Council members unanimously approved an ordinance to accept an annexation agreement, from Miami Township to the Village of Yellow Springs, of 28.3 acres of property along East Enon Road.

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  In good hands at Running Errands, the village’s newest nail salon

  
  
  

  A new place to get pampered is opening up in downtown Yellow Springs this month: Running Errands, a nail salon set to open on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

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  Villagers to recreate Seurat painting

  
  
  

  Yellow Springs resident Valerie Koshelef plans to bring to life Georges Seurat’s 1884 painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” on Sunday, Oct. 12, as a tableau vivant, or living picture.

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  Yellow Springs Street Fair returns Oct. 11

  
  
  

  The annual Fall Street Fair, presented by the YS Chamber of Commerce, will be Saturday, Oct. 11, with craft and food vendors open 9 a.m.–5 p.m. in the downtown Yellow Springs thoroughfares. This year’s event will boast 170 craft and service vendors, as well as 26 food vendors.

Obituaries

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  James Joseph Kane
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  Dr. John Emory Fleming