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• Jobs, business first choice for CBE land

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 13, 2017

  

  Most villagers who weighed in on the topic would like to see the land known as the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, used in a way that promotes local economic development.

• Village Council supports Home, Inc.’s ‘Glen Cottages’

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  At Village Council’s July 3 meeting, Council members unanimously voted to waive utility tap and zoning fees for Glen Cottages, the newest project of Home, Inc.

• Yellow Springs Village Council supports Paris accord

  By YS News StaffJuly 6, 2017

  

  At their June 19 meeting, Village Council members unanimously passed a resolution in support of the Paris climate agreement, brought to Council by the local organization Mothers Out Front.

• Yellow Springs Village Council stalled on hotel tax

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 29, 2017

  

  In Village Council’s first vote on whether to impose a local lodging tax on transient visitors, Council members came up deadlocked at their June 19 meeting.

• Village Council— New policing guidelines discussed

  By Audrey HackettApril 27, 2017

  

  Local policing was in the spotlight at Village Council’s April 17 meeting. Council members discussed proposed new guidelines for Village policing, as well as next steps in the Village’s search for a permanent police chief. In addition, a new full-time police officer, Mariah England, was sworn into the local department.

• Village Council ponders regulation of Yellow Springs Airbnbs

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 20, 2017

  

  At Village Council’s April 3 meeting, Council members considered the appropriate level of local government regulation  regarding the issue of local short-term rentals.

• Village Council— Mixed outlook for broadband

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 6, 2017

  

  Statistics on village internet use were presented at Village Council’s March 20 meeting by Andrew Cohill, CEO of Design Nine, the firm hired by the Village to evaluate the feasibility of creating a municipal broadband network in Yellow Springs.

• Case against David Carlson is still active

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 23, 2017

  

  One of the two criminal cases stemming from the tensions between police and villagers on New Year’s Eve remains active, although Village Council members have intervened and asked the Greene County prosecutor to drop the charges.

• Citizens seek strong voice in policing

  By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

  

  Yellow Springs residents gathered at a Village Council meeting, with many lined up to address the room with grievances about Village policy. Prompted by the incidents of New Year’s Eve, the focus is the overhaul, or at least significant reworking, of the Yellow Springs Police Department.

• New Year’s Eve investigation costs rising

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 9, 2017

  

  At their Feb. 21 meeting, Village Council members addressed a recent invoice submitted by Dayton Attorney David Williamson, who is conducting the independent investigation into the New Year’s Eve incident that pitted local police against citizens.