COVID-19 Update — December 23, 2021
• The rising COVID-19 case numbers and related hospitalizations are continuing to stress the state’s medical care facilities, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, or...
View ArticleYellow Springs Development Corporation ends the year by looking ahead
Could a community bread oven be in the village’s future? At its last monthly meeting of the year, conducted online Tuesday, Dec. 7, the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, spent time...
View ArticleMiami Township Trustees honor Mark Crockett
According to Miami Township Trustee Chris Mucher’s estimate, retiring Trustee Mark Crockett has signed at least 10,000 checks over his 20-year tenure serving the Township. In honoring Crockett during...
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Yellow Springs Baking Company set to open
Fresh out of the oven, a new business is coming to Yellow Springs. Opening soon is the Yellow Springs Baking Company, located in the heart of the Millworks business center. The Yellow Springs Baking...
View ArticleMy Name Is Iden — What’s in a name?
By Iden Crockett What’s in a name? That’s such a cliché and it’s asked so often that it has become more of a statement than a question — what’s in a name. I’ve been turning the phrase over in my mind...
View ArticleMy Name Is Iden — No Time Like Present Time
By Iden Crockett It’s December and I can’t help thinking about time. The seasons are changing. The year is ending. These things are beautiful, and well worth meditating on, but they aren’t what has me...
View ArticleVillage elders reflect on the Black experience, Pt. III
This is the final article in a three-part series featuring African American elders who live in Yellow Springs. Their experiences were part of a larger discussion that included James Felder, Geneva...
View ArticleDown to Earth — Tecumseh Land Trust and affordable housing
By Marianne MacQueen Affordable housing, farmland preservation and native habitat conservation — are they mutually exclusive? Off and on there has been criticism that Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, has...
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‘Navigating the Pandemic: Stories of Hope and Resilience’
Despite being physically separated for much of 2020 and beyond, people have still managed to find ways to collaborate on creative projects during the ongoing pandemic. Connecting in isolation via...
View ArticleNew bread from age-old process
There’s a special kind of alchemy that goes into bread: grain and water and heat and time, among other things, are components of a spell that materializes into nourishment. Baker James Luckett and...
View ArticleWhat inspired you in 2021?
The annual tradition of polling YS News readers for meditations on a query has always tread a certain patch of earth. At the end of every year, we’re looking for a snapshot of your life — what made it...
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2021 in Review | Top Stories
Oberer plans spark concerns At its July 19 meeting, Village Council voted to annex 34 acres of land into the village. The land, part of a 52-acre property owned by Oberer Development, is slated to...
View Article2021 in Review | Village Council
Land for Mary’s Way purchased At its Feb. 16 meeting, Village Council members passed a resolution to purchase three acres of land running along the eastern edge of Yellow Springs School’s East Enon...
View Article2021 in Review | Planning Commission
• In February, Village Planning Commission approved two conditional use applications for local bakeries with different business concepts. Home-based Blue House bakery, located at 421 N. High St., bakes...
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2021 in Review | Village Businesses
Millworks In January, Millworks was back on the market. The local industrial park had been purchased by Jessica Yamamoto and Anthony Molina in 2018, and the pair listed it for sale after initial plans...
View Article2021 in Review | Yellow Springs Development Corporation
The Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, completed its second year in 2021, debuting a website — ysdc.org — and by year’s end, adding a time for community comments during its monthly public...
View ArticleYear in Review | Miami Towship
• After a number of years in which Trustee Chris Mucher served as president/chair of the three-person board, Trustee Don Hollister became chairperson during the group’s first meeting of the new year. •...
View Article2021 in Review | Sports and Recreation
Despite classes continuing online in the first months of 2021, Yellow Springs Schools completed a winter sports season with boys and girls basketball teams competing at the high school level, a...
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2021 in Review | Village Life
Villagers kicked off the new year differently as they moved into 2021; with the annual ball drop canceled due to the ongoing pandemic and a state-mandated 10 p.m. curfew, Dayton and Short streets were...
View Article2021 in Review | Village Schools
Navigating the pandemic The Yellow Springs public school district began 2021 with students set to continue learning remotely, through online instruction, in response to the ongoing pandemic and...
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