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• Drop on in!

  By Matt MindeJanuary 13, 2023

  

  On New Year’s Eve, the village celebrated both the nascent 2023 and the return of the ball drop, deftly handled by villager Lance Rudegeair, pictured in a cloud of confetti; the annual event has not been held since the transition from 2019 to 2020.

• Habari Gani!

  By Jessica Thomas

  

  Tuesday, Dec. 27, marked the annual Kwanzaa celebration for villagers.

• Kringle mingle

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  Any villager who happened to stroll by the United Methodist Church on Saturday, Dec. 3, might have had the good fortune of running into ol’ Saint Nick.

• Gelt getters

  By Jessica Thomas

  

  As the sun set on Sunday, Dec. 18, a group of villagers gathered to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah at a potluck.

• Writing on the wall

  By Reilly DixonNovember 4, 2022

  

  On Monday, Oct. 31, muralist and artist Pierre Nagley spent hours covering up the tags and graffiti that recently cropped up over his and Lindsay Burke’s tarot mural in Kieth’s Alley.

• School’s ghouls: Mills Lawn School Halloween parade

  By YS News StaffNovember 3, 2022

  

  After a three-year hiatus, the long-loved Mills Lawn School Halloween parade and town-wide trick-or-treating returned Monday, Oct. 31.

• Outside voices

  By Matt Minde

  

  As the days get shorter and feast season approaches, the Mills Lawn School fourth- through sixth-grade choir sang seasonally appropriate songs in a seasonally appropriate drizzle outside the Yellow Springs Hardware store Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 24.

• Watch tower: Antioch College’s decommissioned smokestack comes down

  By Reilly DixonOctober 20, 2022

  

  The 125-foot-tall smokestack, the most visible part of the decommissioned Antioch College power plant, was demolished Monday, Oct. 10, as part of a $4.25 million grant, the Campaign to Secure the Future of Glen Helen.

• Pickles, paddles and proceeds

  By YS News StaffOctober 19, 2022

  

  On Sunday, Oct. 9, comedian and new resident Donnell Rawlings faced villager Donna Silvert in a charity pickleball match on Antioch’s tennis courts.

• A street affair

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 14, 2022

  

  Amid the hustle and bustle of the return of Street Fair on Saturday, Oct. 8, one couple made time for — as far as this newspaper is aware — a Street Fair first: Cincinnati couple Sarah Valenzuela and Michael Kuhl were married by Mayor Pam Conine in an impromptu wedding ceremony.