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• Banners highlight activist legacy

  By YS News StaffApril 13, 2021

  

  To draw attention to the village’s activist legacy, the Yellow Springs Arts and Culture Commission has created a banner series now adorning the lampposts on Dayton Street and Xenia Avenue downtown.

• YS Schools to resume in-person classes with new academic year

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 4, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs Schools will begin the 2020–21 school year with a resumption of “regular, in-person classes,” Superintendent Terri Holden has announced. Families with “vulnerable” students, however, will be offered an online learning option.

• Ambulance billing rates increase

  By Carol SimmonsMay 7, 2020

  

  The Greene County Miami Township Trustees unanimously approved a resolution Monday, May 4, to raise the billing rates for ambulance services.

• Spring forward — a little history on Daylight Saving Time

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 4, 2020

  

  Most of the continental United States will spend a bleary-eyed morning this coming Sunday, March 8, as Daylight Saving Time returns, requiring all villagers to set their clocks one hour ahead — and potentially get to bed an hour earlier — on Saturday night. But who to thank — or blame — for the annual time change?

• 2 dead in shooting on Grinnell Road

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 12, 2020

  

  The Greene County Sheriff’s office is investigating a shooting on Grinnell Road, south of Yellow Springs, that left two people dead Wednesday morning, Feb. 12.

• ‘Music in Friendship’— 31 years of Heartstrings

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 12, 2019

  

  Heartstrings, the all-women traditional musical ensemble that includes Goldstein, Burkholder, Carol Van Ausdal and Linda Scutt, will perform their annual holiday concert at the YS Arts Council on Saturday, Dec. 14, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

• Suspect in Clark homicide indicted on 3 counts

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 15, 2019

  

  A grand jury has indicted area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett, 26, on two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault in the stabbing death earlier this year of Yellow Springs resident Leonid “Lonya” Clark. Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer announced the indictments at a press conference Friday afternoon, Nov. 15, at the county courthouse in Xenia.

• The artist is in

  By YS News StaffOctober 24, 2019

  

  Eighteen artists showcased their work across 10 local stops during the Yellow Springs Open Studios Tour last weekend, Oct. 18–19.

• School board race— Turner, Ellison unopposed

  By Megan BachmanOctober 10, 2019

  

  This fall’s race for the Yellow Springs School Board won’t be much of a race at all — both candidates are running unopposed for seats they already hold. Sylvia Ellison, 55, is running for her third term on the board. Turner, 45, is running for his first term for a seat he was appointed to fill last fall.

• Fire house groundbreaking begins

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 15, 2019

  

  Groundbreaking will now move forward, with a public ceremony at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the station’s future site, 1001 Xenia Ave.