This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed Monday, Jan. 19. The 2026 theme is “MLK: Man of Action.” The annual march through downtown, which was scheduled to step off at about 9:45 a.m., ...

The YS Board of Education held its first meeting of the year Thursday, Jan. 8, during which three new board members — Paul Herzog, Kristi Nowack Myers and Kim Reichelderfer — were sworn in. With the ...

With a few strokes of a pen, it became official Friday, Jan. 9: Yellow Springs Development Corporation purchased the downtown buildings at 252 and 254 Xenia Avenue. In doing so, YSDC assumed ownership ...

In the Bryan Center office of Channel 5 Station Manager Ben Guenther, a small photo of Weird Al Yankovic hangs in the corner of a corkboard. The famed curly-haired, bespectacled parody musician stands ...

After being canceled by the Odd Fellows earlier in the spring, Yellow Springs’ annual Fourth of July parade was back on, local leaders announced with excitement in mid-June. The parade had a new ...

On a cold and blustery morning last month, Village employees Tanner Bussey and Preston Harris took the wood forms from around a rectangle of freshly set concrete. Villagers Kevin McGruder, Len Kramer ...

Did you know that 75% of the human brain is water, and 75% of a living tree is also water? What about bats being the only mammal that can fly? That temperature determines the sex of a turtle before it ...

“Musically speaking, the Jook is the most important place in America,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston in 1934. “For in its smelly, shoddy confines has been born the secular music known as blues, and on ...

The annual New Year’s Ball Drop began like any other. People began drifting into the intersection of Short Street and Xenia Avenue, in front of the hardware store, about 11:30 p.m. It was an ...

Ordinance 2025-30 Ordinance 2025-30 By YS News Staff Published: December 18, 2025 Comments Off ...

When he joined the Yellow Springs Environmental Commission, Tom Dietrich was surprised to learn the status of the environmental cleanup at the former Vernay Laboratories site on Dayton Street — that ...

Holden said at the meeting, and in an interview with the News this week, that the capital campaign wasn’t unanticipated for the district, but grew out of years of planning around how to fund the ...