Articles About green space

• School facilities question— One town builds, one does not

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 17, 2017

  

  In the past 10 or so years, every school district in Greene County, except Yellow Springs, has either already built new school buildings or passed a levy to do so soon. The same is true for each district contiguous to the Yellow Springs schools.

• Sale puts farmland at risk

  By YS News StaffMarch 2, 2017

  

  At Village Council’s Feb. 21 meeting, a villager and Village Council member urged villagers to come together in an effort to preserve farmland at risk of development on the western edge of Yellow Springs.

• Village Council side bar— Less green space funds

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 24, 2014

  

  At their April 7 meeting, Village Council members voted 3–2 to add $25,000 for green space to the 2014 capital project budget. Karen Wintrow, Lori Askeland and Brian Housh voted for the funding, and Marianne MacQueen and Gerry Simms voted against. Council will vote on the capital fund legislation at its April 21 meeting.

• Green space funding approved

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 11, 2010

  At their Nov. 1 meeting, members of Village Council unanimously approved a motion to allocate a significant portion of Village estate tax revenues each year to the greenbelt fund, in order to provide regular funding for green space preservation.

• Green space funds proposed

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 28, 2010

  To preserve the Jacoby Greenbelt on the western edge of Yellow Springs, Village Council should have sufficient greenbelt funds to act quickly when landowners are ready to sell, according to Tecumseh Land Trust Executive Director Krista Magaw at Council’s Oct. 14 meeting.

• Tell me how your garden grows

  By Aaron ZaremskyJuly 27, 2010

  

  The steering committee for the local neighborhood gardens met to discuss the future of the project last Friday.

• Land trust guest speaker advises sustainable farming

  By Megan BachmanMay 15, 2010

  

  Professor and author David Montgomery thinks everyone should be concerned about where their food comes from and how its grown. In his presentation for the Tecumseh Land Trust’s “Stories of People and the Land” series on Tuesday night, the soil expert urged no-till, organic farming practices that preserve local agricultural soils rather than deplete them.

• Green space funds go to Jacoby farm preservation

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 4, 2010

  At their March 1 meeting, members of Yellow Springs Village Council unanimously approved contributing to the preservation of two farm properties, one of which includes the headwaters of the Jacoby Creek and is the first farm preserved within the Jacoby greenbelt.

• Council moves towards funding Jacoby easement

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 25, 2010

  At its Feb. 16 meeting, Village Council took a first step toward using Village greenbelt funds to conserve two pieces of farmland considered critical by Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT. One of the properties is the first piece of the Jacoby greenbelt to be officially preserved as farmland.

• Land trust seeks greenbelt funds for Fogg land

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 11, 2010

  At their Feb. 1 meeting, Village Council members were asked to use a large portion of the Village greenbelt fund to preserve a strategic piece of local farmland.