From The Print Last Week Section
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Electrical fire at Lawson Place home
Just after 2 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, a resident at 11 Lawson Place noticed that an outside wall of their home had caught fire and called 911. According to Fire Chief James Cannell, MTFR firefighters were “on the scene within five minutes.”
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Ball things must pass— A new Mr. NYE for YS
The New Year’s Eve ball drop that ushered Yellow Springs into 2026 was villager Lance Rudegeair’s last. The annual tradition — and the bedazzled disco ball itself — have been passed onto Dan Badger, who will drop the village into 2027 and beyond.
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The Patterdale Hall Diaries | The ninth plane of Xenia Township
“We are in no danger of losing power now, and my main goal is to keep the pipes from freezing. I think we are only a week or so away from having to blow the water out of the pipes.”
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Cultivating Christmas cheer
“Growing Christmas trees as a cash crop in the United States began in the early 1900s in western Pennsylvania. Some of the first Christmas tree plantations were started in Indiana County — the county where I grew up — in 1918.”
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Yellow Springs Pharmacy ‘here for long haul’
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.
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National Alliance on Mental Illness support available in Yellow Springs
The area National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, hosts a local Connection Recovery Support Group, for those living with a mental health condition, the second Monday of each month, 6:30–8 p.m. The next meeting is Jan. 12.
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Miami Township Trustees hire financial consultant
Miami Township trustees agreed this week to bring in outside help as they work to untangle the Township’s books ahead of budget planning early next year.
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Favorite Yellow Springs Memories, Pt. I
“At the end of 2025, the News asked folks to share their favorite Yellow Springs memories — and we received a flood of responses from villagers near and far.”
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Little Art launches new documentary series
Little Art Theatre has announced a new artist-in-residence initiative, debuting this month with Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Steven Bognar and artist-filmmaker Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli.
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A tale of two pies
For a little village of about 3,700 people, it may seem strange to see two pizza parlors sharing the same downtown — let alone, sitting across the street from one another.
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