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• Interim Village manager signs on

  By Reilly DixonOctober 5, 2026

  

  It’s been about two weeks since Jeff Sheridan started as Yellow Springs’ interim Village manager, and he’s already settling into the position, he told the News last week from his second-floor Bryan Center office.

• Miami Township Board of Trustees broach full-time admin position

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 4, 2026

  

  At its regular meeting Monday, Sept. 21, the Miami Township Board of Trustees gave a first reading to a resolution that would expand Zoning Administrator Bryan Lucas’ current half-time position into a full-time township administrator/zoning position.

• YS Hack to circle up at Antioch College

  By Jessica ThomasOctober 3, 2026

  

  On Saturday, Oct. 3, YS Hack — a group dedicated to bringing people together to play hacky sack — will celebrate its fifth anniversary as an organization at its second annual “Hack Day.” The day-long event is will be staged at Antioch College, with hackers to gather on the campus “horseshoe” from 2–9 p.m.

• ‘Endangered and Extinct’— The analog, archived

  By Lauren Shows

  

  “Endangered and Extinct” lives somewhere within the overlap between what’s disappeared or disappearing and what’s still hanging on. Stephen Rumbaugh, a Yellow Springs-based graphic designer and conceptual artist, has filled the newly named Dr. Bob Brandt Jr. Event Space at WYSO with 28 such “specimens,” on display now through Nov. 30.

• News from the Past: September 2026

  By Don HollisterOctober 1, 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.

• More screenings, more venues— Yellow Springs Film Fest to return

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 29, 2026

  

  Set for Wednesday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 4, the YS Film Fest’s nearly 30 events, programs  and films will take place on stages and screens across the village — at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater, Little Art Theatre, briefly on a closed-down Short Street and, new this year, 91.3 WYSO’s Union Schoolhouse. 

• The Corndrinkers cheers to 50 years of old-time tunes

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 28, 2026

  

  There’s no telling the number of do-si-does, promenades and swings the Corndrinkers have seen over the last half-century. To this day, the five-piece string band’s calendar is chock full of square dances and folk festivals, small-town gigs and unplugged jams.

• Local naturalist to teach bird language

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 27, 2026

  

  Set to take place every Tuesday between Sept. 29 and Oct. 22, the course promises to deepen  participants’ relationships with the natural world around them by honing awareness of bird language patterns.

• Remembering Gail Lichtenfels— A life in pages

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 26, 2026

  

  At a special Village Council meeting on Friday morning, Aug. 21, Village Manager Johnnie Burns announced his resignation, ending his more than 12 years spent working for the Village of Yellow Springs.

• Miami Township Trustees continue cemetery work

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 25, 2026

  

  In July, the cemetery’s designated Pine Forest — intended as a natural burial area for cremated remains — was projected to begin selling plots by Sept. 1. With work still ongoing, however, trustees said on Sept. 9 that the cemetery section is now expected to begin selling plots by Oct. 15.