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  • Sugar Shack Tour coming up March 4

    By Audrey HackettFebruary 6, 2018

    As sap flows in area sugar maples, syrup season is just around the corner. Flying Mouse Farms is hosting a Sugar Shack Tour on March 4 to show local residents how the sweet stuff is made.

  • Repair Cafe at new location on Saturday

    By William DrewingFebruary 1, 2018

    Frank Blackstone watches intently as volunteer, Duard Headley fixes his old eight-track player at last Fall's YS Repair Cafe.

    YS Repair Cafe brings people together to practice sustainability through community action, at Antioch College this weekend.

  • Pollution continues in Glen waters

    By Megan Bachman

    Wright State students took samples of Yellow Springs Creek in Glen Helen in September of last year to analyze for E. coli, nitrates and other contaminants as part of an environmental chemistry class that has studied local water quality since 2011. (Submitted photo by Audrey McGowin)

    At several points on its journey to the Little Miami River in the Glen, where all the water in our watershed drains, the water tested high for E. coli and nitrates, pollutants that can harm local wildlife as well as people and animals who come into contact with the water. 

  • Way Back Wednesday — The Blizzard of 1978

    By Lauren ShowsJanuary 31, 2018

    A heavy duty snow remover on loan from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base removes the village's largest snow drift along Enon Road.

    The end of January marks 40 years since the worst snow storm Yellow Springs — and Ohio — has ever seen.

  • A Thai(-tanic) dish served with love

    By Lauren ShowsJanuary 29, 2018

    Some of the ingredients used in vegan Tom Kha-style soup — there is no photo of the soup as it was gone before I could get a snap. A good sign.

    Lauren “Chuck” Shows shares a recipe for a vegan Tom Kha-style soup and chews on the meaning behind cooking for loved ones.

  • Local churches to host “Souper Bowl” events

    By YS News StaffJanuary 24, 2018

    First Presbyterian Church and Central Chapel AME Church will host "Souper Bowl" events in February.

    Two village churches — First Presbyterian and Central Chapel AME — will host soup/Super Bowl-related events in February. 

  • Ohio EPA public hearing on quarry concerns set for Feb. 1

    By Audrey HackettJanuary 23, 2018

    “No Quarry” yard signs created by local citizens’ group, Citizens Against Mining, peppered yards along South Tecumseh Road near Greenon High School on a recent weekend. In July, the state of Ohio approved expanded limestone mining operations in Mad River Township, just north of Yellow Springs, intensifying oppposition from area residents. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Area residents are invited to attend an Ohio EPA public hearing on water quality impacts of a planned mining expansion in Mad River Township, north of Yellow Springs. The hearing will be held Thursday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m. at Greenon High School.

  • Hamilton honored as ‘Great Ohioan’

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 20, 2018

    Local children’s author Virginia Hamilton was given Great Ohioan Award by the Ohio Statehouse this week.

  • GALLERY — MLK Jr. Day in the village

    By Megan BachmanJanuary 19, 2018

    Bitter cold and falling snow didn’t keep villagers from honoring the civil rights leader on his actual birth date, January 15, and nearly 50 years after his assassination. See photos from the march and program after the jump.

  • Seeking courage at MLK event

    By Jeff SimonsJanuary 18, 2018

    The local celebration of the birthday of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. takes place on Monday, Jan. 15, at 11 a.m. at Bryan Community Center gym, a new location. Marchers will congregate at 10 a.m. in the Subway parking lot that day for the march downtown that precedes the event. Shown above is the 2017 MLK march, which was attended by hundreds although the weather was frigid. (News archive photo by Matt Minde)

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s death. And to celebrate his legacy, the 2018 Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Jr. Day program has adopted a timely theme: “Courage to Take a Stand.”

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