Economy Section :: Page 47

• Family philanthropy benefits Yellow Springs

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 8, 2011

  

  Many Yellow Springs nonprofits have a friend in the Morgan Family Foundation, which has contributed several million dollars to local groups since 2003.

• Local family buys Eco•mental

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 2, 2011

  Rhonda and Jason Newsome of Yellow Springs are the new owners of the village’s environmental products store, Eco•mental, having purchased the store last week from CJ Williams and Nancy Grigsby. The Newsomes are hosting a re-opening celebration Friday, Sept. 2, from 2–4 p.m. at the store, 257 Xenia Ave.

• Barr project forum scheduled

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 1, 2011

  At their Aug. 15 meeting, members of Village Council agreed to hold a public hearing on the Planned Unit Development, or PUD, request from Home, Inc. to build senior apartments on the Barr property downtown at Council’s Sept. 19 meeting.

• Waxing sustainable for the sake of the bees

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 29, 2011

  

  Bees and bee keeping practices are the topic of several events in the village this week.

• Industrial park moves ahead

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 25, 2011

  Ground for the 35-acre Center for Business and Education industrial park on the western edge of the village may be broken as early as winter or spring 2012.

• Up to the wire for eHDS

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 21, 2011

  The deadline for a lease agreement between e-Health Data Solutions and Creative Memories was Wednesday, July 13.

• New wells for Vernay clean up

  By Lauren Heaton

  The two new capture wells that appeared at the Vernay Laboratories site on Dayton Street this summer are adding to the forces aimed at cleaning up the industrial contamination at the site.

• Exotic plants take root on US 68

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When a group of plant enthusiasts took over the Village property on U.S. 68 North that was formerly the home of Stutzman’s Nursery, the weeds were so high that the property’s dozen greenhouses were barely visible above them.

• Yellow Springs Botanicals sprouts

  By Megan BachmanJuly 18, 2011

  

  A group of plant enthusiasts recently took over the Village property on U.S. 68 North that was formerly the home of Stutzman’s Nursery and plan to start an exotic and rare plants business.

• New Saturday market opens

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 14, 2011

  

  Yellow Springs may not welcome residential sprawl, but outdoor market sprawl of the kind two Union School House tenants started this summer may be a welcome addition to the Saturday shopping shuffle in the village.