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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Take a ride with the Village Bike Club
If you’re downtown on a Wednesday evening and see a group of people riding down the bike path, calling out to other cyclists to join them, you’ve likely just run across members of the recently founded Village Bicycle Club.
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Meet Your Nonprofits | Learning local Black history with The 365 Project
The Yellow Springs nonprofit, founded in 2008 to preserve and celebrate the village’s African American history “365 days a year,” hands its tours almost entirely to young people, some recruited as early as sixth grade.
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News from the Past: July 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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Room for all on the Perry League diamond
The league operates under a few simple and unique rules: there are no teams, no assigned positions, no batting order, and every batter gets 1,000 strikes.
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Sea Dogs season ends with a splash, awards
A nonprofit started in 1991, the Sea Dogs are run by a parent-board, who rent the pool from the Village, organize competitions, take photos, fundraise, and cheer on swimmers as they compete.
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YS Senior Center— Sale of Livermore property falls through ahead of expected close
The YS Senior Center reported this week that the planned sale of its Livermore Street property has fallen through, leaving the nonprofit with what it described in a press release as a “critical, $325K shortfall” as a deadline approaches for its purchase of 108 Cliff St.
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News from the Past: June 2026
85 YEARS AGO: 1941 — Another well to be put down for water. “The Board of Public Affairs, after consulting with engineers, have ordered another well drilled to augment the village water supply. It will be drilled on the pump house grounds [now Ellis Park].”
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The story of a storyteller
“When you tell the story with dignity, it makes an impact,” Merzius told the News, adding that, rather than arguing with people who have already decided what they believe, a storyteller can “commit to the excellence, commit to the truth.”
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Four thought
Villagers didn’t let the oppressive heat reign over their parade on July 4. The lively train wound down Xenia Avenue by crowds that coalesced along the shadows of trees and awnings, waiting for the Sea Dogs’ Super Soakers — though kids were quick to dart out and nab tossed candy before it melted to the road.
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Down to Earth | Fifty years of state preserves
On June 2, 1976, Gov. Jim Rhodes signed legislation that made the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, or ODNAP, a permanent division within the department.
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