Land & Environmental Section :: Page 29

• The village is breaking out in hives

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 1, 2011

  

  Thanks to village beekeepers, the town’s flowering trees and vegetation might be healthier, backyard gardens more productive and fruit trees more fruitful.

• Semler dairy preserved in Jacoby

  By Megan BachmanAugust 5, 2011

  

  The 171-acre Semler farm on Snypp Road is the first land in the Jacoby Creek watershed preserved with Village funds and one of four remaining dairies in Greene County.

• New wells for Vernay clean up

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 21, 2011

  The two new capture wells that appeared at the Vernay Laboratories site on Dayton Street this summer are adding to the forces aimed at cleaning up the industrial contamination at the site.

• Exotic plants take root on US 68

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When a group of plant enthusiasts took over the Village property on U.S. 68 North that was formerly the home of Stutzman’s Nursery, the weeds were so high that the property’s dozen greenhouses were barely visible above them.

• DeWine dismisses drilling file

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 7, 2011

  This month Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released the findings of an investigation of a document containing fraudulent land leasing tactics for the purpose of gas drilling in the Yellow Springs area.

• Glen may become conservancy

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The Glen Helen Nature Preserve has been saved from development several times in its 82-year history.

• Cemex seeks new quarry close to Yellow Springs

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 16, 2011

  

  The Fairborn-based Cemex, one of the world’s largest producers of Portland cement, is seeking to rezone a 289-acre plat of land it owns just south and west of Yellow Springs in order to construct a new quarry. The company will make its rezoning request at a meeting of the Xenia Township Trustees today, June 16, at 6 p.m at the trustees office at 8 Brush Row Road in Xenia.

• Green gardeners learn to grow

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Gardening is not just for green thumbs any more. As more and more local neighborhood gardens sprout, the Growers Exchange offers a forum where seasoned local growers share their knowledge with novice gardeners in exchange for labor.

• Sewer link-up moves ahead

  By Megan BachmanMay 26, 2011

  

  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.