Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet.

• Building Community | ‘Encoded’ meaning, identity in Migiwa Orimo’s work

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 21, 2023

  

  Perhaps you’ve seen Yellow Springs-based artist Migiwa Orimo’s banners, created in collaboration with community activists: Visual representations of various social justice movements, screen printed in her studio through the Peoples Banner Project.

• Planning Commission | Lumber Co. Market & Eatery project advances

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  The future business sited for that land, dubbed the Lumber Co. Market & Eatery, owned by Massies Creek Ventures, LLC, aims to have approximately 10 vendors selling prepared foods and goods in a newly renovated facility where a 1940s-era lumber yard once stood.

• World House Choir to celebrate a decade of song, social justice

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 19, 2023

  

  The World House Choir — a multicultural and intergenerational musical group whose decade-long repertoire has embraced songs that put forward messages of unity, solidarity and social justice — will perform its 10-year anniversary concerts Thursday–Saturday, Sept. 21–23, at the Foundry Theater.

• New Little Art Theatre manager is old hand

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 18, 2023

  

  Next time you go to the movies, you can join the longtime Yellow Springs resident Caleab Wyant in celebrating his new position at the Little Art if you greet him by his new title: Theater Manager.

• 40 years of Chamber Music in Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffSeptember 15, 2023

  

  Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, or CMYS, will mark its 40th anniversary this season, which opens Sunday, Sept. 24. Established in 1983, CMYS was founded by a handful of devoted classical music lovers.

• Sunflower field to bloom next week

  By YS News Staff

  

  The Yellow Springs sunflower field planted each year by Sharon and David Neuhardt just north of the village, at 4627 U.S. 68, is anticipated to be in full bloom beginning Friday, Sept. 22, and lasting through at least the next weekend.

• Film director Michael Schultz’s Yellow Springs connection

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Renowned film director Michael Schultz, known for iconic 1970s movies “Cooley High” and “Car Wash” and 1980s classics “Krush Groove” and “The Last Dragon,” once directed at the Antioch Area Theater’s summer festival in the ’60s. Arthur Lithgow offered Schultz the job.

• Yellow Springs school board appoints Scott Fife

  By YS News StaffSeptember 14, 2023

  

  On Friday, Sept. 1, the Yellow Springs Board of Education unanimously voted to appoint local resident Scott Fife as a member of the board.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | Mice and moles and shrews, oh my!

  By Guest ContributorSeptember 13, 2023

  

  “One lasting memory of my time at Oxford was watching a cricket match between the Bodleian librarians and some local captains of industry.”

• Lights up at the Antioch College Foundry Theater

  By Lauren Shows

  

  This fall, the Foundry will again be the home to not just one group of artists-in-residence, but three. At the same time, the Foundry is gearing up to launch a full season of programming.