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6 days ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
Housing Low-income housing project not selected for funding Published: June 2, 2025 After dozens of public meetings; innumerable hours of discussion and debate among elected officials and villagers; and myriad News articles and letters to the editor, a fraught chapter in local housing development history has come to an end.
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1 week ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
“So, what brings you in today? How do you feel and what is your body telling you?”These are the first questions posed to clients who walk into Vytality Blu Health and Medspa, Yellow Springs’ newest wellness clinic that offers retail IV hydration therapy, among other aesthetic and health treatments.
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1 week ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
Housing Planning Commission | Villagers sound off on proposed apartments at Antioch College Published: May 28, 2025 Villagers packed Council Chambers on Tuesday, May 13, for the most recent Planning Commission meeting. Tensions were high, and ultimately, proposed plans changed.
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2 weeks ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
As innumerable downtown businesses and boutiques have come and gone over the years, one has remained at the corner of Xenia Avenue and Short Street since 1927: a small-town, independently owned hardware store. Over those 98 years, the hardware store — first Deaton’s, then Downing’s and later Yellow Springs Hardware — has only changed hands four times, and all the while, it’s been the downtown outlet for bits and bobs, birdseed and bolts, chess matches and chit chat. That era has come to an end.
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2 weeks ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
On Thursday, May 1, President Trump issued an executive order demanding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cease all federal funding to NPR and PBS, spurring uncertainty for public media across the country and even here in Yellow Springs. That executive order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” could mean Yellow Springs-based NPR member station 91.3 WYSO loses $300,000 in expected funds for its upcoming fiscal year.
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2 weeks ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, May 5, the group authorized a resolution that could soon grow Yellow Springs’ physical size by 84 acres — the latest effort of several in recent months to expand municipal limits. By a vote of 4–0, Council members agreed to allow Village Manager Johnnie Burns to enter into a development agreement with area property owners Matthew and Julie Jones, whose 84-acre property sits just outside the southeastern corner of Yellow Springs.
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3 weeks ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
Literary Arts Story Chain’s newest connections Published: May 15, 2025 “Hi, Kitty. Do you want to read ‘Owl Babies’ with Daddy?”There was no response from Nolan’s 3-year-old daughter — she wasn’t there. Still, Nolan opened the cover to Martin Waddell’s 1992 children’s book and began reading into a microphone. “Once there were three baby owls: Sarah and Percy and Bill. They lived in a hole in the trunk of a tree with their Owl Mother.
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1 month ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
A Yellow Springs-based information technology provider, employer and landlord for nearly a dozen home-grown businesses is set to grow — and that may be good news, not just for Yellow Springs, but for the greater Southwest Ohio area. In the next two months, the Miami Valley Educational Computer Association, or MVECA, is set to merge with the Miami Valley Communications Council, a municipal communications and IT organization from Centerville.
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1 month ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
In a special election on Tuesday, May 6, Ohio voters will decide whether to renew a statewide program that provides public infrastructure funds for local governments. If passed, Issue 2 would amend the Ohio Constitution to allow the state to issue bonds or other obligations to finance or assist in public infrastructure projects at the local level — including here in Yellow Springs.
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1 month ago | 
ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon
Village Council Village Council authorizes charging some for police video records requests Published: May 2, 2025 At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, April 21, the group approved a resolution that allows the Village to charge for public records requests of video footage from the YS Police Department’s body-worn camera and police cruiser dash cameras.
