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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It lives!— Yellow Springs Zombie Walk returns next Saturday
Equal parts food drive, festival and fundraiser, the revived Zombie Walk is open to all living and undead; it’s set for Saturday, Oct. 3, 3–9 p.m., with activities and live music to be staged on the front lawn of the John Bryan Community Center.
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Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center celebrates a century
In the fall of 1926, eight children entered a nursery school founded, from the start, to serve a socially and economically diverse population, open to families beyond the village’s most privileged circles.
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Wheeling Gaunt Day programming set
Wheeling Gaunt Day 2026 will take place Saturday, Sept. 12, and will include a slate of activities honoring the 19th-century land owner and philanthropist who purchased his freedom from enslavement before settling in Yellow Springs.
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News from the Past: August 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.
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Tin Can Economy | Govern with audacity
“No more of this “Aw, shucks. How did we get to this point?” If we agree we want something — affordable housing, greater diversity, a downtown that favors villagers over visitors — then divert the resources to make it happen tomorrow.”
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Tin Can Economy | Dispatches from parental leave
“There’s no place Arthur isn’t. In fact, he’s wriggling around on my lap as I type this. He’s upended the grammar of our daily lives and I’m sure he’ll be swaddled by every line I’ll ever write again.”
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New calls to ‘Save Frogtown’
Owned by the Village since 1974 and located in the northwest reaches of Yellow Springs, the 42-acre property has been the locus of conservation and housing debates and discussions for several decades.
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Have a seat at the ‘Longest Table’ in Yellow Springs
The free gathering asks participants to bring food — “something for themselves and something to share,” organizers told the News last week — along with their own plates and utensils, and sit down to eat with neighbors.
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‘Finding the fun’ in the water again
Amy Wamsley will hit the open water again this month for a two-mile swim in the Chicago River to benefit A Long Swim, a nonprofit that raises funds for ALS research. In sharing the news of her upcoming swim with the News, Wamsley also reflected on the year since her monumental swim across the English Channel, and the unexpected challenges that came after.
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Villager to run NYC Marathon to benefit local enrichment nonprofit
Villager Chris Westhoff is running in the New York Marathon for Team Komera, raising money for a nonprofit enriching the lives of girls and young women in Rwanda, whose managing director, Ashley Lackovich, also lives in the village.
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