Infrastructure & Services Section

• Emergency cooling shelters in effect for heatwave

  By YS News StaffJune 17, 2024

  

  The John Bryan Community Center has been designated as a 24-hour emergency cooling center; Greene County Public Libraries are also designated as cooling centers during hours of operation.

• Yellow Springs Public Works employees to bring power to Navajo Nation

  By Reilly DixonJune 12, 2024

  

  Participating in the “Light Up Navajo” mutual aid initiative are five Village Public Works employees who will connect Native American residents living without power to an electrical grid for the first time.

• Roundabout construction on 68/235 intersection to begin

  By YS News StaffJune 1, 2024

  

  The Ohio Department of Transportation, or ODOT, has announced that preliminary work on the construction of a single-lane roundabout at the intersection of U.S. 68 and State Route 235 — between Yellow Springs and Xenia, near Oldtown — will begin Monday, June 3.

• Multi-modal pathway construction, intersection narrowing work to begin

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 4, 2023

  

  Villagers will soon have an easier and safer time walking down some of Yellow Springs’ most trafficked throughways.

• Emergency cooling shelters in effect

  By YS News StaffAugust 25, 2023

  

  The John Bryan Community Center has been designated as a 24-hour emergency cooling center; Greene County Public Libraries are also designated as cooling centers during hours of operation.

• August public works projects planned, underway

  By Reilly DixonAugust 11, 2023

  

  At Gaunt Park, crews entered their second month of working on the Village’s 63-foot-tall, 900,000-gallon water tower.

• Emergency cooling shelters established

  By YS News StaffJuly 28, 2023

  

  The John Bryan Community Center has been designated as a 24-hour emergency cooling center; Greene County Public Libraries are also designated as cooling centers during hours of operation.

• Yellow Springs water towers to be rehabbed, painted

  By Reilly DixonJuly 11, 2023

  

  On Wednesday, July 5, crews kicked off the two-year long process of rehabbing and painting the two Village water towers at Gaunt Park.

• Village electric crew gets the ‘gold’

  By Jessica ThomasJune 2, 2023

  

  Reliability, safety, workforce development and system improvement — those are the four areas in which the Yellow Springs Electric Department was evaluated in order to receive an RP3 “Gold” designation from the American Public Power Association, or APPA.

• Yellow Springs wins ‘best’ water

  By Jessica ThomasMay 25, 2023

  

  At the Monday, May 15, Village Council meeting, Public Works Director Johnnie Burns opened the meeting with a celebration — Yellow Springs had won the Ohio Rural Water Association’s 2023 water tasting competition.