Matthew Adam Grote, of Carlisle, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly Nov. 19, 2025, at the age of 65. He was a devoted husband, loving father and brother and cherished friend. Matt was known for his ...

Margaret “Margrit” Page Tydings Petrie died peacefully on the morning of Oct. 29, 2025, at Shawnee Estates Senior Living in Xenia, Ohio.

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 ...

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The following article appeared in the 2020–21 Guide to Yellow Springs: Downtown, Then and Now. Click here to read more articles from that year’s guide. Like many things in the village, the ...

Judge William Mills, whose beloved estate once stood at the center of Mills Lawn, was not the first patron of Yellow Springs. Even his father, Elisha Mills, who built up the spring resort, was not the ...

are all bound by borders. These words were written by Japan’s Emperor Meiji in 1906, six years before his death. The emperor was a prolific composer of tanka or waka, a classical form of Japanese ...

“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 ...

Welcome to the Yellow Springs Community Directory, aka the ‘Redbook’, business section online. This is our 35th iteration of the mighty, tiny publication, which began as a humble 36-page, letterpress ...

Started by villagers and Antioch College professors Jim Dunn and Bill Chappelle in the late 1970s, members of H.U.M.A.N. organized, marched, protested and educated in order to fight institutionalized ...

At its Thursday, Nov. 13, meeting, the YS school board discussed ensuring that more eyes stay fixed on state and federal legislation as lawmakers at both levels make decisions that could dramatically ...