Since June, the downtown road has been closed to vehicular traffic, and through Village-led efforts, has become a community gathering space — one that has since drawn both considerable criticism and ...

The Short Street saga continued at the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Nov. 3. Council again weighed the pros and cons of continuing the closure of the downtown road, which began earlier ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The dust hasn’t quite settled on the construction site, but local NPR affiliate 91.3 WYSO is gearing up to move in the coming weeks into its new headquarters in the historic Union Schoolhouse at 314 ...

Did you know that 75% of the human brain is water, and 75% of a living tree is also water? What about bats being the only mammal that can fly? That temperature determines the sex of a turtle before it ...

The words of Edgar Allan Poe are set to haunt local audiences this weekend, as Yellow Springs Middle and High School thespians will stage “Shuddersome: Tales of Poe,” a one-hour adaptation of some of ...

Both literally and figuratively, The Sound of Music emanating from Mills Lawn on Saturday afternoon commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Yellow Springs Summer Strings and Band program started by ...

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The results are in — and they’re mixed. At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Oct. 20, Assistant Village Manager Elyse Giardullo presented the findings of a survey regarding the state ...

More than 100 people gathered at the First Baptist Church from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. today to express their distress and ask questions regarding the interactions between police and villagers downtown on ...

Wednesday, April 3, 1974, is a day of local infamy — a dark day of far-reaching devastation, horrific awe and the grim origin of lifelong trauma for many. It’s when a massive F-5 tornado touched down ...