Business Section

• Chappelle opens new merch store in downtown Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonMay 5, 2026

  

  On Saturday, April 25, local resident and famed comedian Dave Chappelle’s merch shop — dubbed The Chappelle Shop — started doing business inside his newly renovated commercial building at 221 Xenia Ave.

• Yellow Springs Community Market co-op timeline takes shape

  By Reilly DixonApril 27, 2026

  

  Yellow Springs Community Foundation staffers and local stakeholders are pushing ahead with plans to facilitate the transition of Tom’s Market into a community-owned, cooperatively-run downtown grocery store.

• Village businesses reel from intoxicating hemp ban

  By Reilly DixonApril 7, 2026

  

  Ohio’s new cannabis and hemp laws, embedded in Senate Bill 56, which bans the sale and possession of intoxicating hemp products, took effect Friday, March 20.

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

  By Reilly DixonMarch 8, 2026

  

  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

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 23, 2026

  

  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.”

• Yellow Springs Pharmacy ‘here for long haul’

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 9, 2026

  

  After an unexpected closure that lasted two days earlier this week, Yellow Springs Pharmacy is “going nowhere,” staffers told the News on Friday. The location will maintain its regular hours of Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

• Tom’s Market explores co-op model

  By Reilly DixonNovember 18, 2025

  

  For the time being, Tom’s Market, located at 242 Xenia Ave., is still privately and family owned — but owner Jeff Gray and others have begun a 45-day discovery process to determine the feasibility of and local interest in the co-op model.

• Yellow Springs Development Co. to purchase downtown buildings

  By Reilly DixonNovember 17, 2025

  

  Some iconic downtown Yellow Springs properties are set to change hands in the coming weeks: The Yellow Springs Development Corporation is purchasing the two buildings at 252 and 254 Xenia Ave.

• Ohio judge rules hemp sales can continue

  By Reilly DixonNovember 10, 2025

  

  As the News reported earlier this month, DeWine’s executive order — had it taken effect — would have significantly impacted the business of several downtown Yellow Springs retailers of hemp products.

• ‘Intoxicating hemp’ ban blocked, village businesses still in the lurch

  By Reilly DixonOctober 20, 2025

  

  “With DeWine’s executive order temporarily blocked, Yellow Springs businesses can continue selling their hemp products under the grace of state law until at least Oct. 28, but beyond that, the future remains unclear.”