Infrastructure & Services Section

• Dispatches from Navajo Nation

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 8, 2024

  

  Established in 2018 with coordination from the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and members of the American Public Power Association, Light Up Navajo has, over the last decade, electrified nearly 7,000 homes within the Navajo Reservation.

• Yellow Springs water, electric meters to go remote

  By Reilly DixonAugust 12, 2024

  

  Soon, Yellow Springs residents will have meters that can be read remotely and quickly — each producing hour-by-hour usage data.  The goal of this initiative? To help local utility customers better monitor usage, and as a result, save money and resources. 

• 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.