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• Fire at Hawthorne Apartments in Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonAugust 12, 2023

  

  At approximately 4 a.m., several area firefighter and EMS crews were dispatched to W. North College St. to battle the blaze that broke out in the complex’s northwest building, which contains eight rental units. 

• BREAKING | Former Yellow Springs doctor arrested

  By YS News StaffOctober 21, 2022

  

  At 11:55 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, former Yellow Springs Primary Care doctor Donald Gronbeck was arrested by members of the Greene County Sheriff’s office, according to Greene County Jail booking records.

• Smokestack from decommissioned heating plant to come down Monday, Oct. 10.

  By YS News StaffOctober 6, 2022

  

  Part of Corry Street and the Little Miami Bike Trail will be closed off Monday for demolition of the smokestack and removal of a 10,000 gallon fuel tank of the decommissioned Antioch College heating plant.

• Village plans power outage at 5:30 a.m.

  By YS News StaffSeptember 13, 2022

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs is planning to shut down power to the entire village for approximately 10 minutes Wednesday, September 14, from 5:30 – 5:40 a.m.

• Local doctor under investigation, license suspended

  By Cheryl DurgansJanuary 20, 2022

  

  The State Medical Board of Ohio suspended the medical license of Dr.Donald Gronbeck, of Yellow Springs Primary Care, on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Investigators arrived Thursday, Jan. 20, at his Dayton Street medical office to execute a search warrant.

• DeWine imposes curfew to slow “dramatic” COVID-19 spread

  By Megan BachmanNovember 17, 2020

  

  At a press conference on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state was imposing a curfew to help curb the “dramatic” spread of COVID-19 in the state.

• Yellow Springs police respond to body found in Glen Helen

  By YS News StaffApril 21, 2020

  

  On Tuesday, April 21, the YSPD  received a call that there was an unresponsive person in the Glen Helen Nature Preserve.

• DeWine on coronavirus: “It’s spreading all throughout the state of Ohio”

  By Megan BachmanMarch 13, 2020

  

  On Friday, March 13, after voting early at the Greene County Board of Elections in Xenia, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine answered questions from area media. DeWine addressed the state’s response to the growing threat of the COVID-19 virus, which state leaders have said is spreading quickly, and largely undetected, through the state.

• Sheriff IDs two killed in Grinnell Road shooting

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 13, 2020

  

  The two people killed in a shooting outside a private home on Grinnell Road on Wednesday, Feb. 12, have been identified as the resident’s ex-wife, Cheryl Sanders, 59, and her husband, Robert R. Sanders, 56, Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer announced in a press conference Thursday afternoon.

• 2 dead in shooting on Grinnell Road

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 12, 2020

  

  The Greene County Sheriff’s office is investigating a shooting on Grinnell Road, south of Yellow Springs, that left two people dead Wednesday morning, Feb. 12.