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• AGENDA for Council’s special meeting on herbicide use around pool

  By YS News StaffJune 19, 2013

  Village Council will hold a special meeting on herbicide use around pool on Thursday, June 20, at 7 p.m. at Council chambers in the Bryan Center.

• Village staff to alert swimmers about overuse of herbicide

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 16, 2013

  

  The Village will contact those who swam in the Gaunt Park pool from last Wednesday to its closing late Friday afternoon to alert them that herbicides had been applied inappropriately Wednesday morning to the grass around the pool.

• Emergency Council meeting on pool closure

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 15, 2013

  

  The Yellow Springs Village Council will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday morning, June 16 at 9 a.m. in Council chambers to discuss the pool closing yesterday due to herbicide application.

• Pool temporarily closed

  By Megan Bachman

  

  On June 12, 2013, the Village staff applied an herbicide to the clover in the grassy area around the pool, forcing closure.

• Downtown lighting gets a makeover

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 14, 2013

  

  New streetlights were installed on Xenia Avenue last week, and will be installed on Dayton Street soon.

• A new lighting look downtown

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 13, 2013

  

  Villagers who venture downtown this week may notice that the Village electric crew finished installing three street lamps at the north end of downtown.

• Village Council— Rehab option for water plant

  By Diane Chiddister

  Regarding how best to source local water, Village Council may have the option of rehabbing the village’s current water plant.

• A native son, talented, caring, addicted

  By Megan BachmanJune 6, 2013

  While Oliver Simons, the local man who police say is behind a string of nine burglaries in the village this year, is now locked up at the Greene County Jail, back in town friends, family, victims and community members are left dealing with the aftershock of his alleged crimes.

• Village Council—Needed repairs to water lines will add cost

  By Diane Chiddister

  The Village needs to plan on adding an additional $1.6 million onto the final cost of either purchasing drinking water from Springfield or building a new water plant, consulting engineer John Eastman told Council at its May 20 meeting.

• Mosquito control takes a village

  By Diane Chiddister

  For the first time this year, villagers are on the front lines of preventing West Nile virus in Yellow Springs. Specifically, local residents need to start looking for sources of standing water in their yards, in order to help eliminate mosquito breeding in the village.