For nearly half a century, Yellow Springs has rung in most every new year with the same characteristic quirk. A raggedy disco ball wrapped in Christmas lights slung over a wire dangles over the ...

Evergreen trees have long been associated with winter celebrations because they are beacons of growth, resilience and everlasting life during the bleakest times of the year. Likely originating in ...

At the end of 2025, the News asked folks to share their favorite Yellow Springs memories — and we received a flood of responses from villagers near and far. So numerous were the memories, in fact, ...

It was gray and chilly outside Barbara Leeds’ village home last month, but inside, steam rose from the spout of a fresh pot of tea as Marna Street lifted her violin bow and Leeds set her fingers on ...

Marcia (Nelson) Greer was born in Xenia, Ohio, on Nov. 3, 1938. She was the daughter of Charles Nelson and Eleanor Moon. She graduated from Xenia High School in 1956, and worked at Dayton Power and ...

Little Art Theatre has announced a new artist-in-residence initiative, debuting this month with Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Steven Bognar and artist-filmmaker Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli.

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 annual New Year’s Ball Drop began like any other. People began drifting into the intersection of Short Street and Xenia Avenue, in front of the hardware store, about 11:30 p.m. It was an ...

Downtown Yellow Springs began to look and feel different this summer after a number of changes to both its uses and its physical landscape. In mid-June, Village Manager Johnnie Burns launched a pilot ...

In late November, the Higher Learning Commission, or HLC — a regional agency that offers evaluation and accreditation to colleges and universities — alerted Antioch College that the school had been ...

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 ...

How big should Yellow Springs be? How big can it be? These are questions that have been at the center of villagewide discourse and municipal decision-making for decades — ones expressed in a litany of ...