Yellow Springers News Today

Local, township, county and state legislation and actions were extensive in 2023.

Just before the lights went down for a screening of “The Wizard of Oz” last Thursday, Nov. 16, Little Art Theatre Development and Community Impact Director Katherine Eckstrand walked into the auditorium to cheers from a full house crowd.

In a special statewide election on Tuesday, Aug. 8, Ohio voters will approve or reject a proposed ballot initiative that will make it harder to amend the Ohio state constitution.

The 61 graduates of the Class of 2023 officially said “farewell” to Yellow Springs High School on Thursday, May 25, as they graduated in the school’s gym.

I wonder whether Walt Whitman’s timeless lines above from “Song of Myself” were stewing in Nancy Mellon’s mind, or unconscious, when she composed her poem.

In the 1960s, Lee Robinson was a student at Central State University – when attitudes about Civil rights were polarized and, he believes, many peoples attitudes from those days have not changed.

McKinney Middle and Yellow Springs High schools will present “Peter Pan and Wendy,” adapted by Doug Rand from the original play and novel by J.M. Barrie, Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 17–20, in the Yellow Springs High School gym.

Yellow Springers have been talking about a business incubator for years. The former Creative Memories complex at 888 Dayton St. and the Center for Business and Education had been  discussed as potential incubator locations before the current businesses moved in. Antioch College — whose Sontag-Fels Building housed a successful incubator enterprise in the 1980s — has also been suggested within the last decade. The small industrial building on South High Street, however, was never part of tho...

It’s been nearly four years since neighbors of a proposed limestone quarry north of Yellow Springs banded together to fight the mining effort. They formed a group, Citizens Against Mining, or CAM, based in Mad River Township, to challenge the company, Enon Sand and Gravel, in a multi-pronged battle. Along the way, there have been both setbacks and victories, but so far mining has yet to get underway on the 420-acre property. And in December 2020, the citizens group celebrated another win — ...

Yellow Springs celebrates MLK Day Charles Caperton | Greene County News A little girl marches during the 2021 Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace March. Charles Caperton | Greene County News The 2021 Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Day Program hosted by Antioch College included virtual performances by the World House Choir, in a video where choir members recorded themselves singing from their homes. Screenshot Yellow Springs Schools hosted their own MLK Day essay contest, wit...