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• Council to vote on CBE

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 19, 2014

  

  What’s the best way for Village Council to proceed with deciding whether to spend $1 million to fund the Center for Business and Education infrastructure? After a hiatus of several months on the locally controversial issue, Council discussed CBE funding again at its June 2 meeting, with some Council members wanting to move ahead quickly and one urging a slowing down of the process.

• New brewery, food truck approved

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Village Planning Commission approved two conditional use applications this week for a tasting room for Vitruvian Brewery Company and a food truck at Antioch University Midwest. Plan board members approved both requests in line with staff recommendations at their meeting on Monday, June 9.

• Chlorine gas plant risk is worrisome

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When two freight trains collided on the track near Graniteville, S.C. in 2005, one of the derailed train cars filled with 90 tons of chlorine gas ruptured. A yellowish-green noxious cloud containing 120,000 pounds of the poisonous gas spread quickly along the ground, causing those nearby to cough, choke and wheeze while burning their eyes, skin and throats.

• More shifts at Village police

  By Lauren HeatonJune 12, 2014

  

  Changes in personnel at the Yellow Springs Police Department are becoming the norm this year. Two more full-time officers either resigned or requested reduced hours last month, following the resignation of two full-time officers in February and March.

• T-ball, a place for healing

  By Jimmy Chesire

  

  A mob of us are doing our warm-up exercises in right field -— 65 to 70 children, 40 to 45 adults.

• Bulldogs Walking, 2014

  By YS News Staff

  

  57 Yellow Springs High School seniors who graduated last Thursday, May 29. As usual the high school gym was steaming, but that didn’t bother the many parents, family members and friends who cheered the graduates on. Also pictured here are valedictorian Rachel Meyer and salutatorian Zoey McKinley.

• Patti Bates is hired as new Village manager

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Patti Bates is excited to have been hired as the new Yellow Springs Village manager.

  “I’m really looking forward to coming to Yellow Springs, digging in and seeing what I can do to help out,” she said in an interview on Tuesday.

• New restaurant at Oten Gallery— Twist on sandwiches at Aleta’s

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Owners of the village’s newest restaurant say the beautiful hand-built brick Oten Gallery will attract diners, but it’s the fresh, delicious food that will bring them back.

• Marlin Newell of the Children’s Center— 25 years of hugs from our children

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Marlin Newell has been at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center for long enough that the toddlers she potty-trained and taught to walk are now returning to enroll their own children.

• A new force for engaged democracy

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Crowdsourcing has been used for everything from tracking the path of meteors to coming up with new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors.

  A new local political party now sees promise in using online tools to ask villagers to solve community problems. Eventually citizens could help run the town from their computers and smartphones.