Articles About Village Council :: Page 29

• Candidates seek local office

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 18, 2013

  With just under a month left for candidates to file for openings in the local elections in November, a handful of new candidates as well as incumbents have indicated interest in helping to govern Village Council, Yellow Springs school board and the Miami Township Trustees.

• Pool re-opens, controversy goes on

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 4, 2013

  Village Council will decide at its July 1 meeting when to remove the fence around the grassy area where herbicide was over-applied.

• Profile of the herbicide ‘Escalade 2’

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 27, 2013

  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.”

• Pool closed 2 days after herbicide application— Spraying sparks controversy

  By Diane Chiddister

  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.

• Village staff to alert swimmers about overuse of herbicide

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 16, 2013

  

  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.

• Emergency Council meeting on pool closure

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 15, 2013

  

  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.

• Pool temporarily closed

  By Megan Bachman

  

  On June 12, 2013, the Village staff applied an herbicide to the clover in the grassy area around the pool, forcing closure.

• A new lighting look downtown

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 13, 2013

  

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

• Village Council— Rehab option for water plant

  By Diane Chiddister

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

• Village Council— Zoning gets more flexible

  By Lauren HeatonMay 23, 2013

  Village Council made a host of alterations to the Village zoning code during a special meeting Monday devoted to the current rewrite of the Village’s central planning document.