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• Letter carriers to host food drive

  By YS News StaffMay 8, 2025

  

  The National Association of Letter Carriers will host the annual Stamp Out Hunger® national food drive Saturday, May 10. During their regular routes that day, letter carriers will collect nonperishable food donations left near residents’ mailboxes.

• Life after assisted death

  By Lauren ShowsMay 1, 2025

  

  The day the News spoke with Thomas Macaulay was almost a year to the day after Ardis Macaulay’s death. Very early on the morning of March 28, 2024, Ardis chose to die on her own terms, with her husband present.

• News from the Past: April 2025

  By Don HollisterApril 30, 2025

  

  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.

• My Name Is Iden | Where Anne went

  By Iden CrockettApril 25, 2025

  

  “The danger to transgender people in this country is real, and the need to stand up and fight alongside us is urgent. We are a small group. We need our allies.”

• News from the Past: March 2025

  By Don Hollister

  

  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.

• Yellow Springs Earth Day celebration set for Sunday

  By YS News Staff

  

  The YS Earth Day and Community Habitat Celebration will be 1–4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, on the YS Senior Center-owned lawn at the corner of East North College and Livermore streets.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | On pinschers and poplars

  By Guest ContributorApril 20, 2025

  

  “A yellow-bellied sapsucker sounds like a made-up name — like a great-crested fad gadget, but I shall bow to greater knowledge, even though the ever-useful ‘Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America’ is at my right hand.”

• PFLAG YS, coming soon

  By Lauren ShowsApril 18, 2025

  

  A group of local residents told the News last week that they’re establishing a new satellite affiliate of PFLAG, a national nonprofit that aims to provide support for the LGBTQ+ community — particularly young people — in Yellow Springs.

• Young’s Jersey Dairy to host annual Easter egg hunt

  By YS News StaffApril 17, 2025

  

  On Sunday, April 20, Young’s Jersey Dairy will host its annual Easter egg hunt as it has for the past 41 years, but with a change.

• County beekeepers to hear arborist talk

  By YS News StaffApril 14, 2025

  

  The Greene County Beekeepers Association will host Mike Connor, speaking on “Trees for Bees,” Tuesday, April 15, at 7 p.m., at Xenia Community Center, 1265 W. 2nd St., Xenia.