Government Section :: Page 133

• Village zoning code update to begin soon

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 16, 2011

  In recent years, a vision of how Yellow Springs should stay vital has emerged, expressed both in the recently revised Village Comprehensive Plan and last year’s visioning effort.

• Village Council — Hard questions for green town

  By Diane Chiddister

  Village Council addressed the issue whether the Village should sign a contract with American Municipal Power, or AMP, for participation in a natural gas plant in Fremont, Ohio.

• Gardeners may get utilities break

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 2, 2011

  Yellow Springs gardeners will soon get a break on their Village utility bills if Council approves a new resolution at its next meeting.

• Storms pass through village

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 26, 2011

  

  Three storm systems charged through Yellow Springs on Wednesday evening, May 26. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning in Greene County a little after 7 p.m. due to possible tornadic activity spotted by Doppler radar, but there were no actual tornado sightings, according to the NWS.

• Sewer link-up moves ahead

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A project connecting the Morris Bean & Company foundry to the Village of Yellow Springs sanitary sewer system will likely be completed this year with the recent finding by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that the project will not have a significant negative impact on the environment.

• Council to vote on natural gas

  By Diane Chiddister

  The challenge of meeting local energy needs with non-polluting energy sources presented itself in a new form to Village Council on May 16, as Council considered whether to use natural gas as an intermediate energy source.

• Why so many voters?

  By Megan BachmanMay 19, 2011

  In last week’s special election, 1,088 local voters went to the polls out of 3,462 total registered voters in Yellow Springs, a turnout of 31 percent. But according to the 2010 Census, the village has a total adult population of only 2,799. How can the village have more registered voters than adults eligible to vote?

• Efficiency program benefits businesses in many ways

  By Megan Bachman

  Local businesses looking to save money by cutting their fuel use now have an extra incentive to do so. Money that began as a fine against the Village for buying power from a polluting coal plant is coming home to help Yellow Springs businesses get energy-efficient.

• Village lawsuit to soon go to trial

  By Matt Minde

  After two years of discussion and official mediation, the legal dispute between the Village of Yellow Springs and a local property owner over the extension of Village water service to a property on Hyde Road has not been resolved.

• Levy sails with 65% of vote

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 12, 2011

  Yellow Springs voters gave an emphatic thumbs-up to the Village five-year property tax levy renewal, with 65 percent of voters approving the levy and almost 35 percent rejecting it at the polls on Tuesday, May 3.