Infrastructure & Services Section :: Page 26

• Village receives fluoridation award

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 23, 2010

  

  On Tuesday the Ohio Department of Health will present the Village with a certificate of appreciation for its 50-year practice of fluoridating local water.

• The burning of Rabbit Run farmhouse

  By Vanessa QueryAugust 8, 2010

  

  After purchasing Rabbit Run Farm on Dayton Street, Vernay Laboratories razed its farmhouse, due to concerns over the safety of the vacant building. The controlled burn was used as a training operation for Miami Township Fire-Rescue and other local fire departments on August 7, 2010.

• Village Council—Sidewalk fixes to move ahead

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 5, 2010

  At their Aug. 2 Village Council meeting, Council members unanimously approved a resolution that allows the Village to move ahead with assessing local property owners on the east side of Xenia Avenue the cost of repairing sidewalks deemed substandard and unsafe. “This project has been on our radar a long time,” said Council member Karen Wintrow.

• Yellow Springs monthly residential electrical consumption

  By YS News Staff

  This is the first in a monthly report on the residential use of electric power within the village limits. View a chart of comparative residential electrical consumption.

• Village road surfaces are being sealed

  By YS News StaffJuly 28, 2010

  Surface sealing is being performed as preventive maintenance on some village streets to keep the asphalt pliable and greatly extend its life.

• Rabbit Run burn postponed

  By YS News StaffJuly 15, 2010

  MTFR has postponed the July 17 controlled burn of the Rabbit Run farmhouse because of further mandated asbestos testing.

• Village crew works snow days

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 25, 2010

  

  When the sky turns a steely grey and snow starts sheeting down, many residents run for their hearths and accept that they’re at the mercy of the white burial. But Village crew members head straight at the snow, outfitting themselves with plows and backhoes to wrangle up some order, at least in the streets. The eight members of the Village street and electric crews have done quite a bit of wrangling this month since the winter’s two biggest snowstorms dropped nearly 20 inches of snow on the village.

• 2010 projects may include zoning update

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 18, 2010

  A zoning code update. Safety improvements and upgrades for the skate park. Energy improvements for Village buildings.

• Business park’s widened road elicits concern

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 11, 2010

  The Village of Yellow Springs is considering a plan to create a new entrance off Dayton-Yellow Springs Road directly into the Center for Business and Education (CBE), the new business park created by Community Resources on the west edge of the village. Though the authority to approve the intersection rests with the Greene County Engineer, Village Council will discuss the proposal when the park, which was annexed into the village in 2005, comes up for approval as a subdivision later this year.

• Plug pulled on power plant

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 3, 2009

  The Village made what some would call a wise and prescient decision last year when it declined to sign on to the coal-fired power plant American Municipal Power, Inc. planned to build along the Ohio River. AMP announced last week on Nov. 25 that it was terminating the AMPGS project due to a spike in construction cost estimates that rendered the project unaffordable for its customers.