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Bentino's Pizza owners Carl and Kim Lea pictured in 2022, when the couple announced that they purchased the building in which they've run their restaurant since 2006. (Photo by Lauren "Chuck" Shows)

Bentino’s Pizza now YS Pizza Company

After nearly 20 years under a familiar name, Bentino’s Pizza in Yellow Springs is preparing to reintroduce itself. The Xenia Avenue pizza parlor will soon become YS Pizza Company, owner Carl Lea told the News last month.

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  •   ‘Iden: A Story of Love’— Documentary tells story of transition, family

    "Iden: A Story of Love" is a feature-length documentary that follows local resident Iden Crockett through the early years of her burgeoning identity as a transgender woman and explores how that process reshaped not only Crockett's life, but also the lives of those closest to her.

  •   Dr. Mark Lomax II returns to Yellow Springs with “Unity Suite”

    The nine-movement "Unity Suite," organized in three sets of three pieces, draws on Lomax's experiences in the Black church and his long-standing belief that music can bring people into deeper communion with one another.

  •   ‘The Outside Presents’ experimental sounds in new space

    This weekend, those who love or are curious about experimental music will get the chance to hear some new sounds in a very new space: “The Outside Presents,” the experimental music series curated by WYSO 91.3 FM host Evan Miller, will be the first public event held in the community space at WYSO’s new Union Schoolhouse studio.

Village Schools (archives)

  •   School board talks safety, start times and exam exemptions

    Traffic safety around district campuses, new school start times and a student proposal to revise the high school’s exam exemption policy were among the topics discussed at the school board’s regular meeting Wednesday, March 11.

  •   State property tax laws to affect district’s budget forecast

    Yellow Springs Schools Treasurer Jacob McGrath told school board members at their Feb. 18 meeting that the district remains financially stable through the end of the decade. At the same time, he said the district faces growing uncertainty as new state property tax laws begin to affect both local revenues and the district’s future levy options.

  •   School district talks start time, bus changes

    At a Jan. 28 work session, the school board continued a discussion of a proposal that was brought forward by district administrators last month: A possible change of start and end times at both campuses, and consolidation of school bussing into one, K–12 route.

Economy (archives)

  •   YS Development Corp. mulls over future of downtown buildings

    At YSDC’s last meeting, Tuesday, March 3, the group — composed of eight voting members, two staffers and five ex-officio members — mulled over the potential that lies ahead for 252 and 254 Xenia Ave.

  •   MORE COVERAGE | Next steps taken towards a Tom’s Market co-op

    A press release from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, on Monday, Feb. 23, said that the foundation had struck an agreement with Tom’s Market owner Jeff Gray, with the goal of “transitioning the business into a form of community ownership in approximately two years.”

  •   Tom’s Market strikes co-op agreement

    A press release from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, Monday, Feb. 23, said that the foundation struck an agreement with Tom’s Market owner Jeff Gray with the goal of “transitioning the business into a form of community ownership in approximately two years.”

Village Life (archives)

  •   Meet Your Nonprofits | Feminist Health Fund— Bridging healthcare gaps

    Now in its fourth decade, the Feminist Health Fund provides direct financial assistance to women facing unaffordable health care costs including prescriptions, diagnostic testing, dental care and trauma recovery.

  •   News from the Past: March 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.

  •   Open Air Village eyes home-based move

    Beginning this summer, Open Air Village expects to relocate to a home on President Street, provided the Village approves a zoning variance that would allow the Gays to operate an in-home child care program there.

Government (archives)

  •   Miami Township— Trustees broach cemeteries, fiscal transition

    Budget questions — particularly around cemetery spending, future capital needs and how Township funds should be used across departments — have been at the center of recent Miami Township Trustees discussions, first at their March 2 regular meeting and again at a March 9 work session focused on cemetery appropriations.

  •   Portion of Yellow Springs-Fairfield Road closed through April 10

    The Greene County Engineer’s Office announced earlier this week that a stretch of Yellow Springs-Fairfield Road will be closed from Monday, March 30 through Friday, April 10.

  •   Three-day road closure on U.S. 68

    Beginning Tuesday, March 24, a stretch of U.S. 68, about six miles south of downtown Yellow Springs, will close for three days. The closure — by Brush Row Road and Great Council State Park in Oldtown — will go into effect at 8 a.m., and will be in place through late Thursday.

Obituaries (archives)

  •   Michael Charles Reed

    Michael Charles Reed, 74, passed away peacefully on March 29, 2026, at Hospice of Dayton. He will be deeply missed and quietly remembered in all the ways that mattered most.

  •   Luisa Lang Owen

    Luisa Lang Owen, Ph.D. passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 3, in hospital. She was an accomplished artist, writer, poet, philosopher, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and was brilliantly funny.

  •   Margaret Ann Stewart Diehl

    Margaret Ann Stewart Diehl died on Monday, March 16, 2026, at the age of 96.

  •   Linda Jean (Johnson) Dillenbeck

    Linda Jean (née Johnson) Dillenbeck, of Waxhaw, North Carolina, passed away on Feb. 12, 2026, after a brief illness.

  •   Margaret ‘Peg’ Bird

    Margaret Hostetler Bird, of Yellow Springs, age 80, passed away peacefully on Friday, Jan. 30, at the Dayspring Nursing Facility in Enon.

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