Yellow Springs News

10/17/2024

As the News reported last month, approximately 184 acres of contiguous farmland just beyond the western reaches of Village limits are slated to be sold before the end of the year.

Tecumseh Land Trust intends to purchase the available properties or work with potential buyers to place conservation easements on the land, thus precluding any future development there.

Approximately 184 acres of contiguous farmland just beyond the western reaches of Village limits are slated to be sold before the end of the year; Tecumseh Land Trust intends to purchase the available properties or work with potential buyers to place conservation easements on the land, thus precludi

10/16/2024

Friendship, love, betrayal, reconciliation and a band of forest marauders — what more can one ask for on a Thursday night?

These things and more the YS High School theater department will bring to the stage with Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” which opens Thursday, Oct. 17, with repeat performances Friday–Sunday, Oct. 18–20. All performances will be staged at Turner Studio Theater in Springfield.

“The Two Gentlemen of Verona” will be performed Thursday–Saturday, Oct. 17–19, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m., at Turner Studio Theater, located at 300 S. Fountain Ave. in Springfield.

10/15/2024

“The semester is in full effect. Summer flew by. I saw turkeys again out at the Hall last night. Five hens were on the prowl around the house while I was reading in the great room.”

"The semester is in full effect. Summer flew by. I saw turkeys again out at the Hall last night. Five hens were on the prowl around the house while I was reading in the great room."

10/14/2024

Over the river and through the woods, to Agraria's Farm we go!

In case you missed it, the ribbon was cut on a new, mile-long multi-modal path in Yellow Springs on Sunday, Oct. 6.

Lovingly dubbed Mary's Way after the late Mary Donahoe, the path connects the Yellow Springs High and McKinney Middle schools campus to Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice and Hall Hunger Initiative.

The paved path — which was more than four years in the making — winds through wooded copses, rolling farmland and over the Jacoby Creek.

Photos by Reilly Dixon

10/13/2024

The recent discovery of bats living inside the historic 19th-century building has curtailed the use of the church’s sanctuary by both its congregation and the wider community.

10/11/2024

From the YS News archives, Oct. 1968:

“Miami Township Fire-Rescue put on a demonstration of fire fighting methods at Gaunt Park Sunday that drew several hundred spectators and both entertained and informed its viewers. ... Bicycles were awarded during the evening to Jeremy Richards, 11, and Edwina Garner, 8, both Mills Lawn School pupils, for their winning Fire Prevention Week posters.”

10/11/2024

Ten minutes into the YSHS varsity volleyball team’s match against Cedarville on Saturday, Oct. 5, the buzzer sounded for a special time-out: Coach Stephanie Zinger took to the mic to announce that junior Ariana Robinson had just made her 1,000th career scoring assist.

Way to go, Ariana!

Ten minutes into the YSHS varsity volleyball team’s match against Cedarville on Saturday, Oct. 5, the buzzer sounded for a special time-out: Coach Stephanie Zinger took to the mic to announce that junior Ariana Robinson had just made her 1,000th career scoring assist.

10/11/2024

The annual Fall Street Fair, presented by the YS Chamber of Commerce, will be Saturday, Oct. 12, with craft and food vendors open 9 a.m.–5 p.m. downtown and a beer garden open 11 a.m.–7 p.m. on the Bryan Community Center lawn.

10/10/2024

The event features homemade apple crisp, Young’s vanilla ice cream and apple cider punch for sale, and performances by the Egyptian Breeze dancers and YS Community Band.

The annual Apple Fest, hosted by First Presbyterian Church the evening before Fall Street Fair, will be Friday, Oct. 11, 6–9 p.m.

10/09/2024

At a public work session on Wednesday, Sept. 25, Columbus-based Windsor Companies provided some Planning Commission members with an early concept plan of a proposed 128-unit apartment complex the development company seeks to build where the Antioch College Student Union presently sits.

Upon the impending demolition of the union, Windsor plans to erect two buildings populated with 32 two-bedroom and 96 one-bedroom units.

Tentatively dubbed “Unity Village” by Columbus-based real estate developer Windsor Companies, the planned buildings will be composed of 32 two-bedroom and 96 one-bedroom units — 128 in total — ranging from 650 to 1,100 square feet.

10/08/2024

McKinney and YSHS Principal Jack Hatert, who spoke to the News last week, said using the Yondr pouches has been “really smooth” for the district thus far, and, in his estimation, worth the investment.

10/07/2024

ICYMI: The Leftovers did it again — the team is, for the third year in a row, the reigning champs of the local adult softball league.

On Tuesday evening, Oct. 1, the Leftovers bested the WYSO-topes 13–9 with the game getting cut short by several innings owing to a flash rainstorm. “It was a showdown for the ages,” Coach Brian Rainey told the News.

Top row, from left: Kirby Keller, Scott Fleming, Sophie Lawson, Lily Rainey, Zack Tobias and Melody Kingsley. Bottom, from left: Tyler Fox, Brian Rainey, Melissa Heston and Jillian Shellabarger.

Photo by Reilly Dixon

10/05/2024

The biennial FotoFocus program — which highlights the work of photographic artists across dozens of venues in and around Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and Northern Kentucky, all united by a common theme — returns this year.

10/04/2024

Running in the rain on a muddy course, the Bulldogs were able to overcome the rough conditions at the Clark County Fairgrounds during the Jim Murray Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 28.

10/03/2024

A public notice — next Monday's Village Council agenda — was printed in this week's paper with the incorrect date.

The agenda below has been corrected. The News apologizes for the error.

10/03/2024

Baxter’s internship with Friends Care and is intended to introduce her to every department within a long-term care facility in order to prepare her to eventually become a facility administrator.

Friends Care Community recently announced the tenure of a new administrator-in-training: Kelli Baxter, a 2019 YS High School alumna who has had a lifelong passion for healthcare.

10/01/2024

Antioch School teacher Ann Guthrie, left, has spent 36 years observing and nurturing young students in the “social laboratory” of the Nursery program.

This year marks her last in the classroom, as she passes the torch to Athena Potter, who was hired in 2021 to assist, and later succeed, Guthrie as the Nursery program’s lead teacher.

"Throughout her decades as Nursery teacher, Ann Guthrie has maintained her scientist’s curiosity, remaining interested, she said, in the personalities and temperaments of each of the students she has shepherded as they grew within the Nursery program before moving on to Kindergarten."

10/01/2024

A printing error in the Sept. 27 issue caused a portion of page 5 to be light and difficult to read for some local residents; below is a link to a PDF of the page for those who were unable to read its content in hard copy format.

Inconsistent print quality has been an ongoing issue for the News since its longtime printer closed last year and the News shifted its printing to the only other nearby printer in the state. We will continue to dialogue with our printer about print quality and will post any future hard-to-read pages on the YS News website.

A printing error in the Sept. 27 issue caused a portion of page 5 to be light and difficult to read, so the News has posted at PDF of the page below for those who were unable to read the content of the page in its hard copy format.

09/30/2024

“An exciting day: Yellow Springs Brewery is making the English pale ale ‘Wyatt’s Eviction,’ and so I shall show up to empty the mash tun and generally get in the way.”

Read more from Chris Wyatt's most recent installment of his "Patterdale Hall Diaries" column:

"An exciting day: Yellow Springs Brewery is making the English pale ale 'Wyatt’s Eviction,' and so I shall show up to empty the mash tun and generally get in the way."

09/28/2024

Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, or CMYS, will open its 41st season Sunday, Sept. 29, with a 4 p.m. performance by Trio Zimbalist at Antioch University Midwest.

09/27/2024

At press time, the YSHS boys varsity soccer team remains tied with rivals Dayton Christian this week, but now for second place, as Legacy Christian moves into first. The team’s overall season record is 5–2–1.

At press time, the YSHS boys team remains tied with rivals Dayton Christian this week, but now for second place, as Legacy Christian moves into first. The team’s overall season record is 5–2–1.

09/27/2024

What was previously a continuation of the grassy perimeter around the pond, the new native prairie — stretching across 4,500 square feet in the northern reaches of Ellis Park — is now a dappled patchwork of milkweed, aster, ironweed, coneflowers and other native flowers.

A volunteer work day at the prairie will take place Saturday, Sept. 28, 9–11 a.m., with the goal of trimming back invasive grasses inhibiting the prairie's growth.

What was previously a continuation of the grassy perimeter around the pond, the new native prairie — stretching across 4,500 square feet in the northern reaches of Ellis Park — is now a dappled patchwork of milkweed, aster, ironweed, coneflowers and other native flowers.

09/26/2024

The annual Black Farming Conference returns this year on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28 — this time in a new location.

09/24/2024

At the group’s Tuesday, Sept. 10 meeting, Planning Commission members approved: a phase two final plat application from DDC Management, a conditional use application from Ruetschle Architects on behalf of the Village School District and a zoning map amendment to rezone 3.612 acres of school district-owned land.

At the group's Tuesday, Sept. 10 meeting, Planning Commission members approved: a phase two final plat application from DDC Management, a conditional use application from Ruetschle Architects on behalf of the Village School District and a zoning map amendment to rezone 3.612 acres of school distric

09/23/2024

Around 184 acres west of Village limits along Dayton-Yellow Springs Road are likely going up for auction before the end of 2024, according to Tecumseh Land Trust Executive Director Michele Burns.

The local conservation nonprofit is set to begin a fundraising campaign to purchase the land and place it under a protective conservation easement.

Approximately 184 acres along Dayton-Yellow Springs Road may soon go up for auction to the highest bidder; Tecumseh Land Trust intends to purchase that land or work with a buyer to protect it from future development with conservation easements.