Winds Cafe News Today

Jackie Sue Davenport passed away on the morning of March 11, 2023, at Springfield Hospital.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Uta Gudrun Schenck (nee Riess), 75, on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023.

Yellow Springs came alive in 2022 with manifold events, celebrations, commemorations, new arrivals and departures.

/ Mary Kay Smith of the Winds Café in Yellow Springs and Audria Maki of Reza’s in Dayton with her family. This week on our last chapter of Bouncing Back, we meet two business owners who are also long-time friends. Mary Kay Smith runs the Winds Cafe and Winds Wine Cellar in Yellow Springs. For several years now, she has bought the coffee she serves from Audria Maki, who runs Reza’s in Dayton. Smith has been a mentor to Maki, and the two have helped each other get through the pandemic, both ...

Three local businesses are closing for the winter during what their owners expect to be a grim few months of the pandemic. Whether other seasonal closures will follow in Yellow Springs remains to be seen. Peach’s Grill closed in mid-November after a kitchen worker tested positive for the virus, while Ye Olde Trail Tavern followed suit this Monday, though no positive cases have been reported there. And Import House on Dayton Street closed last Friday, following a confirmed case that morning. A...