When federal SNAP benefits stalled this fall, Yellow Springs’ safety nets snapped taut in an effort to catch as many affected folks as possible. Among those nets, and often helping bind them together, ...

Thomas Williams, Kimathi Asante, died suddenly of heart failure Dec. 1, 2025 in Toledo where he resided. He was born Nov. 9, 1951, in Springfield, Ohio. His mother was Betty Woodward, and his father ...

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 ...

2006 TOYOTA PRIUS. 79,600 miles. Owned by one family, great shape with some dings but no accidents. Smoke free. Regular maintenance at Toyota dealer and Village Automotive. New front brakes 3/25, two ...

“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 ...

This is the first in a series of articles that examine racial diversity in Yellow Springs, including its history, its current decline, and possible causes and solutions. When Robert Harris graduated ...

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 ...

For Wendy, John and Michael Darling, getting to Neverland means flying through the London skies, through the stars and out of this world. For Yellow Springers, the journey will be much more direct: ...

At the group’s most recent regular meeting, Monday, Nov. 17, Village Council members again turned their attention to two related, but distinct, economic development incentive tools that the Village ...

The VIDA award to be presented Dec 12, 2018, recognizes the collective efforts of muralists working in Yellow Springs over the years. (see full story here) Note that while individual artists may be ...

In 1953, Omar Anthony Robinson, a former Tuskegee Airman and electrical engineer working for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, purchased farmland from a Black farmer named Leo Shorter. With loans ...

“Professor Ellis Fowler, a gentle, bookish guide to the young, who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises, and that the campus of the Rock Springs School for Boys lies on a direct ...