Government Section

• Village Council weighs future changes to zoning code

  By Reilly DixonApril 22, 2024

  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, April 15, Council members wrestled with a familiar issue: Should the Village zoning code be modified to encourage more high-density and affordable developments? The answer from most Council members was “yes, but in due time.”

• GunderKline sworn in as Miami Township Fiscal Officer

  By Lauren ShowsApril 20, 2024

  

  New Miami Township Fiscal Officer Jeanna GunderKline was sworn in by Trustee Chair Don Hollister at the most recent regular meeting of the Township Trustees Monday, April 1.

• Miami Township Trustees | Fiscal Officer Margaret Silliman signs off

  By Lauren ShowsApril 2, 2024

  

  After serving for 24 years in the position, Silliman retired this month; her successor, Jeanna GunderKline, who was elected last fall, will take over as fiscal officer beginning in April.

• BREAKING | Bleything indicted for murder, assault, other charges

  By Reilly DixonMarch 28, 2024

  

  On Thursday, March 28, the Yellow Springs Police Department served Jackson Isaiah Bleything, 22, with an indictment in connection to a fatal shooting that occurred in Yellow Springs on Thursday, March 14.

• Village Council | March 4 Meeting

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  In his Manager’s Report, Burns told Council that development of the future 90-home subdivision, Spring Meadows, is on schedule.

• EXTENDED COVERAGE | March 14 homicide upheaves Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonMarch 24, 2024

  

  Following a four-day manhunt, and amid an ongoing investigation by the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, or BCI, Jackson Isaiah Bleything, a Springfield resident and 2020 graduate of Yellow Springs High School, was taken into custody Sunday, March 17.

• Miami Township Board of Trustees | Tax rate reduced, grants pursued

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 23, 2024

  

  Greene County Auditor David Graham explained that local millage rates for a 2.4-mill levy passed in 2017 to fund the construction of the current fire station have been reduced over the last two years.

• Miami Township Board of Trustees | Feb. 21 Meeting

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 22, 2024

  

  The Miami Township Board of Trustees held its second regular meeting of the month Wednesday, Feb. 21.

• 2024 OHIO PRIMARY RESULTS | YS Schools substitute levy fails

  By YS News StaffMarch 21, 2024

  

  Preliminary results of the Tuesday, March 19, primary election are now available. Locally, a 9-mill YS Schools substitute levy failed at the polls, with 589 votes for and 722 votes against.

• Man arrested in connection with March 14 homicide

  By YS News StaffMarch 18, 2024

  

  A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in Yellow Springs on Thursday, March 14. Jackson Isaiah Bleything, 22, a Springfield resident and 2020 graduate of Yellow Springs High School, was taken into custody on Sunday, March 17.