According to Dr. Jason Russell, a medical toxicology fellow at the Ohio University College of Medicine who works at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, villagers have “not much to worry about.”

Several villagers spoke passionately and heatedly about their frustrations and fears around the Wednesday, June 12, overuse of herbicides on the grass around the Gaunt Park pool at Village Council’s June 17 meeting.

Soil samples form around Gaunt Park pool showed chemicals at far below the levels at which humans can be exposed and not show any ill effects. The pool opened Friday.

The Gaunt Park pool will open on Friday, June 21, at its regular time after water samples taken after an overuse of herbicides in the pool area came back with no evidence of contamination.

The Village will contact those who swam in the Gaunt Park pool from last Wednesday to its closing late Friday afternoon to alert them that herbicides had been applied inappropriately Wednesday morning to the grass around the pool.

The Yellow Springs Village Council will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday morning, June 16 at 9 a.m. in Council chambers to discuss the pool closing yesterday due to herbicide application.

New streetlights were installed on Xenia Avenue last week, and will be installed on Dayton Street soon.

Villagers who venture downtown this week may notice that the Village electric crew finished installing three street lamps at the north end of downtown.

Regarding how best to source local water, Village Council may have the option of rehabbing the village’s current water plant.

The Village needs to plan on adding an additional $1.6 million onto the final cost of either purchasing drinking water from Springfield or building a new water plant, consulting engineer John Eastman told Council at its May 20 meeting.