Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet.
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2025 In Review | Top Stories
A changing downtown, a focus on housing and land use, groundbreaking on the facilities project — these and more were Yellow Springs’ top stories for 2025.
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Annual Christmas bird count set for Jan. 3
One of the world’s longest-running citizen science efforts will take place locally Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m.–2 p.m.
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Villager gives the gift of listening
Even in a small town, where people tend to know and be known by their neighbors, it’s not unusual for folks to feel alone around the holidays. With that in mind, one Yellow Springs villager is trying to meet that feeling head-on, offering a simple gift: half an hour of conversation.
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Miami Township Trustees approve new community paramedic position
The first item Cannell brought forward for the 2026 budget was the creation of a 40-hour career community paramedic position, which the trustees unanimously approved; they later approved the hiring of Steffinie Brewer to fill the position, effective Dec. 27.
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Reichert to retire from Yellow Springs Schools
A Yellow Springs graduate, JoFrannye Reichert served the district as a substitute teacher and paraprofessional before being hired as the full-time music teacher for Mills Lawn in 2007.
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Aid mounts for Yellow Springs’ Haitian neighbors
For Springfield’s estimated 15,000 Haitian residents, their Temporary Protected Status designation is set to be revoked on Feb. 3, 2026. In the meantime, Springfield’s Haitian Support Center, or HSC — which marked its two-year anniversary last week — has mobilized to meet needs for Haitian residents.
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Yellow Springs Kwanzaa celebration planned
The Yellow Springs Kwanzaa Planning Committee has announced plans for the 2025 celebration, which will take place Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Foundry Theater.
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Meet your community outreach specialists
When federal SNAP benefits stalled this fall, Yellow Springs’ safety nets snapped taut in an effort to catch as many affected folks as possible. Among those nets, and often helping bind them together, are the YS Police Department’s Community Outreach Specialists Florence Randolph and Danny Steck.
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YS Development Corp. poised to close on downtown buildings
Right around the turn of the new year, the Yellow Springs Development Corporation is expected to close on the purchase of two downtown buildings: 252 and 254 Xenia Ave.
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Duke Ellington’s ‘Nutcracker Suite,’ string-style, at the Foundry
String super-group Mr Sun will bring their reimagined version of the suite to the Foundry Theater on Thursday, Dec. 11: A string-band take on the suite based, in part, on Tchaikovsky’s original, but mostly on the 1960 big-band-inflected reworking by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn — a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.
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