From The Print Last Week Section

• Villager offers fresh cuts, paid forward

  By Reilly DixonAugust 8, 2026

  

  Beginning this month, villager Jason Laveck has committed to providing two free haircuts each month from his chair at In Salon, located at 120 Dayton St., and donations to a fund he’s established will cover additional free haircuts.

• Art on the Lawn returns to Mills Lawn

  By YS News StaffAugust 7, 2026

  

  Village Artisans will present its 42nd annual Art on the Lawn Festival on Saturday, Aug. 8, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., at the corner of Limestone and Phillips streets, behind Mills Lawn School.

• My Name Is Iden | In defense of the dark arts

  By Iden Crockett

  

  “Most of my time and creative energy isn’t spent on words. It’s spent on images — images that tend to be, as my own artist bio politely puts it, ‘intense.'”

• Miami Township Trustees discuss cemetery oversight

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Plans to prepare the Pine Forest section of Glen Forest Cemetery for burials led to extensive discussion at the Monday, July 20, meeting of the Miami Township Trustees, as board members debated the cost of adding pine needle ground cover to the site — and more broadly, how decisions about Township cemeteries should be made.

• News from the Past: July 2026

  By Don HollisterAugust 6, 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.

• Room for all on the Perry League diamond

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  The league operates under a few simple and unique rules: there are no teams, no assigned positions, no batting order, and every batter gets 1,000 strikes.

• New cleaning business opens in Corry Street Plaza

  By Jessica Thomas

  

  A clean space where people feel at home and at peace — that’s what Quetzal Gomez, of 111 Cleaning Services, hopes to deliver for her clients in Yellow Springs and beyond.

• Local governing bodies hold joint meeting — growth, levies and taxes broached

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  For the first time in over three years, representatives from all three local governmental bodies — Village Council, Yellow Springs Board of Education and Miami Township Board of Trustees — gathered in one room. The goal of the two-hour meeting held Thursday, July 9, was to discuss ways the three groups could work more closely and collaboratively on matters of development, finances and, more generally, small-town cohesion.

• Sea Dogs season ends with a splash, awards

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 4, 2026

  

  A nonprofit started in 1991, the Sea Dogs are run by a parent-board, who rent the pool from the Village, organize competitions, take photos, fundraise, and cheer on swimmers as they compete.

• A local chef’s mobile ‘roots’

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 3, 2026

  

  Van Ward, known to patrons of MAZU restaurant as a purveyor of adventurous specials and dining events, struck out on her own last month with Taproot, the “mobile kitchen” she founded with her wife, Bee Ward. The new business aims to offer private dining experiences with a vegan menu, while continuing to collaborate with MAZU.