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• 2025 In Review | Education

  By YS News StaffJanuary 15, 2026

  

  2025 in Review: Education

• 2025 In Review | Government

  By YS News Staff

  

  2025 In Review | Government — Village Council, Village Administration, Miami Township & Elections

• My Name Is Iden | Alone in the dark

  By Iden Crockett

  

  “Living with PTSD is like being a kid who is afraid of the dark. People can’t understand why you’re scared, what you’re scared of or what to do to help you in those moments of darkness.”

• A campaign for YS Schools

  By Lauren Shows

  

  On Tuesday, Dec. 2 — Giving Tuesday — YS Schools officially launched its capital campaign, which aims to raise funds for some aspects of the facilities upgrades project currently underway at Mills Lawn and Yellow Springs Middle and High School.

• New Miami Township Trustees board settles in

  By Lauren Shows

  

  The Miami Township Trustees began their first meeting of the new year Monday, Jan. 5, by swearing in Trustee Chair Marilan Moir for her second term and newly elected Trustee Lori Askeland for her first.

• Young thespians stage ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

  By Lauren Shows

  

  “The Diary of Anne Frank” is set to run its final two performances Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, after an opening performance Thursday, Jan. 15.

• Electrical fire at Lawson Place home

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 13, 2026

  

  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.”

• Ball things must pass— A new Mr. NYE for YS

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 12, 2026

  

  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.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | The ninth plane of Xenia Township

  By Guest ContributorJanuary 11, 2026

  

  “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.”

• Cultivating Christmas cheer

  By Guest ContributorJanuary 10, 2026

  

  “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.”