Land & Environmental Section :: Page 22

• Seeds, not pesticides, fall from sky

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 5, 2013

  

  The small, low-flying aircraft that will soon buzz area farm fields are nothing to worry about, according to local farmer Jim Clem. At this time of year, the planes aren’t spraying pesticides but spreading seeds.

• VIDEO — Local farmer to seed from the sky

  By Megan BachmanAugust 30, 2013

  

  Local farmer Jim Clem is using aerial crop seeding to plant cover crops this fall. See a video featuring Clem on the new technique for increasing soil fertility.

• Fighting West Nile in the village

  By Megan BachmanJuly 28, 2013

  

  To keep the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus at bay, local groups are urging residents to remove mosquito breeding sites on their property.

• Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

  By Suzanne SzempruchJune 17, 2013

  

  Eco•Mental is encouraging villagers to bring all unwanted electronics the first Saturday of each month for recycling.

• Barr property burn delayed

  By Lauren HeatonApril 19, 2013

  

  The controlled burn of the Barr property on Xenia Avenue has been rescheduled for May 5.

• Springfield vs. Yellow Springs — Comparing two waters

  By Megan BachmanApril 18, 2013

  Like Yellow Springs, Springfield was named by early settlers for its abundant underground water resources, which on the surface manifest as gushing springs. The groundwater aquifers tapped for drinking water by both communities remain highly productive today.

• Judge for Struewings, again

  By Lauren Heaton

  A Greene County Common Pleas Court judge last week ruled in favor of Kenneth and Betheen Struewing in their case against the Village of Yellow Springs. The ruling upholds a decision rendered by a Greene County magistrate last April that the plaintiff’s property easement is valid, granting them one free Village water and sanitary sewer tap for their property on Hyde Road, which lies outside Village limits.

• Glen, Tree Committee to talk pawpaws

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 29, 2013

  

  The Yellow Springs Tree Committee will sponsor a program on growing pawpaws tomorrow, March 30, at 2:30 p.m. at the Vernet Ecological Center.

• Wasp named for ‘lord of the flies’

  By Megan BachmanMarch 7, 2013

  

  In the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, a parasitic extraterrestrial bursts out of an astronaut’s chest, killing him, in the film’s iconic scene. The lifecycle of parasitic insects is not much different, according to Wright State entomologist and Yellow Springs resident John Stireman.

• Easement to protect Glen for good

  By Matt MindeFebruary 28, 2013

  With the support of a resounding 10 nonprofit, state and local government agencies, as well as $1.6 million in secured funding, the Glen has taken its first step into the protective fold of a permanent conservation easement.