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• Village Council talks apartments, property tax levy

  By Reilly DixonJune 22, 2025

  

  At the group’s most recent meeting, Monday, June 16, Village Council members gave first readings to four ordinances regarding proposed apartments on or near Antioch College’s campus, a forthcoming property tax levy, the upcoming Pride celebration in the village and more.

• Local leaders sound alarm on HB 335, budget bill

  By Lauren ShowsJune 19, 2025

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs and YS Schools this week joined a host of other local governance bodies across the state in sounding the alarm about the effects of the recently introduced House Bill 335 and the soon-to-be-passed state budget, and asking residents to make their voices heard to state legislators before June 24 in response.

• Planning Commission recommends Council’s approval for Windsor apartments

  By Reilly DixonJune 16, 2025

  

  The group voted unanimously to recommended Village Council approves Windsor’s plans to build a 96-unit apartment complex at the site of the Antioch College Student Union, as well as a 43-unit, senior-based apartment complex in the Charles F. Kettering building.

• BREAKING | Multiple downtown Yellow Springs businesses broken into

  By Reilly DixonJune 15, 2025

  

  Several downtown Yellow Springs storefronts were robbed overnight, with some shop owners returning to work Sunday morning, June 15, to find broken glass and stolen money. 

• Neighbors sound off on proposed 84-acre annexation

  By Lauren ShowsJune 12, 2025

  

  At public meetings on Monday, June 2, a group of residents who live on and near the section of East Enon Road south of the high school came before the public bodies to express their concerns about potential annexation of nearby land into the Village of Yellow Springs.

• Miami Township Trustees talk finances, upcoming levy, solar

  By Lauren ShowsJune 10, 2025

  

  At their regular meeting Monday, June 2, the Miami Township Trustees discussed Township finances, a renewal levy that will go before voters in November and a recent public meeting about utility-scale solar.

• AT&T contractors conducting structure inspection in village

  By Matt MindeJune 5, 2025

  

  AT&T contractors will be conducting a simple inspection throughout the village for the next few days.

• Rescinding previous offer, Township Trustees now commit $50k to land trust

  By Lauren ShowsMay 31, 2025

  

  The Miami Township Trustees again turned discussion at their recent regular meeting Monday, May 19, to setting aside funding to help local nonprofit Tecumseh Land Trust fund conservation easements on farmland just outside the village on Dayton-Yellow Springs Road.

• Village aims to annex 84 acres into Yellow Springs limits

  By Reilly DixonMay 19, 2025

  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, May 5, the group authorized a resolution that could soon grow Yellow Springs’ physical size by 84 acres — the latest effort of several in recent months to expand municipal limits.

• Miami Township Trustees commit $127k to Tecumseh Land Trust

  By Lauren ShowsMay 16, 2025

  

  Ultimately — with a 2–1 vote — the three-member board approved a resolution to set aside $127,419 from its general fund to be used “for the exclusive purpose to fund [the trustees’] commitment to partner with the Tecumseh Land Trust to acquire conservation easements on all or part of the township parcels referred to as the [Welch] Farm.’”