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• Pool temporarily closed

  By Megan BachmanJune 15, 2013

  

  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.

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

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 6, 2013

  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.

• A native son, talented, caring, addicted

  By Megan Bachman

  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.

• 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.

• Accident claims life of Yellow Springs teen

  By YS News StaffJune 3, 2013

  Trista Lindstrom, 17, was killed at the intersection of Clifton and Grinnell Roads.

• Burglary suspects indicted

  By Lauren HeatonMay 30, 2013

  Xenia residents Oliver Simons and Bianca Stone Chappelle were indicted last week by a Greene County grand jury on felony charges related to burglaries that occurred in Yellow Springs.

• Village Council— Zoning gets more flexible

  By Lauren HeatonMay 23, 2013

  Village Council made a host of alterations to the Village zoning code during a special meeting Monday devoted to the current rewrite of the Village’s central planning document.