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• News from the Past: January 2024

  By Guest ContributorFebruary 1, 2024

  

  “Several dozen villagers and students from Yellow Springs High School and Antioch College assembled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to protest Operation Desert Storm, which began in full mid-January 1991.”

• News from the Past: November & December 1973

  By Guest ContributorDecember 21, 2023

  

  “Ice skating on DeWine’s pond was made possible by last week’s cold weather. Above: Saturday’s all-day-long hockey battle was photographed against a background that includes Whitehall.”

• News from the Past: October 2023

  By Reilly DixonOctober 25, 2023

  

  75 years ago, Antioch enrollment was up to 1,140; 50 years ago, federal narcotics agents seized drugs valued at $100,000, and Village Council debated bicycle safety to little avail; 25 years ago, contaminants were found in local wells near Vernay Labs.

• News from the Past: July 2023

  By Reilly DixonJuly 27, 2023

  

  In 1973, 50 years ago, Antioch College welcomes 243 new students to campus. 25 years ago, the Yellow Springs Women’s Park was officially opened and dedicated. Ten years ago, a firefight and all-night standoff took place in the village.

• News from the Past: May & June 2023

  By Reilly DixonJune 10, 2023

  

  In 1948, 75 years ago, Yellow Springs Instruments Incorporated was founded; 50 years ago, a strike of Antioch College students this week continued to prevent use of all buildings on the campus except dormitories.

• News from the Past: April 2023

  By Reilly DixonApril 11, 2023

  

  From an April 1948 issue of the News: “New strain of chestnut trees planted in Glen. The United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, has chosen Antioch College’s Glen Helen as a test site for a new blight-resistant strain of 78 chestnuts which it has been developing.”

• News from the Past: January 2023

  By YS News StaffJanuary 20, 2023

  

  From the Jan. 12, 1966 issue of the News: “Leo Hamilton, one of eight winners of $25 each at last Saturday’s Appreciation Day drawing, displays his winnings, while others nearby are happy for him.”

• News from the Past: November & December 2022

  By YS News StaffDecember 19, 2022

  

  In the winter of 1963, villagers wrapped in their warmest garb gathered downtown on Short Street to visit the man in red himself, who patiently listened to holiday wishes and handed out candy canes.

• News from the Past: July, August & September 2022

  By YS News StaffOctober 3, 2022

  

  As published in the July 5, 2012, issue of the News: “Over 80 people showed up to kick off Yellow Springs’ first Pride weekend, with a march led by Melissa Heston as Wonder Woman.”

• News from the Past: May & June 2022

  By YS News StaffJune 11, 2022

  

  50 years ago, in 1972: Anti-Vietnam war protest blocks WPAFB gate. “Between 50 and 70 of the April 20 Wright Patterson AFB demonstrators are in Greene County jail.” [154 demonstrators were arrested, including two Air Force doctors.]