Land & Environmental Section :: Page 30

• Gardens, gardeners sprouting

  By Megan BachmanApril 7, 2011

  

  What began as a modest effort to start a community garden has mushroomed to four neighborhood gardens scattered around town — with more soon to sprout.

• Garden with your neighbors

  By Megan BachmanMarch 31, 2011

  

  Villagers can sign up to garden at one of four neighborhood garden plots around town — Bill Duncan Park, the Glass Farm, Fair Acres and Friends Care — where last year more than 50 families tilled and tended beds together.

• Free youth programs at Glen Helen Pancake Breakfast

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2011

  

  Glen Helen naturalists are offering free youth programs throughout the 36th Annual Pancake Breakfast.

• Cemex fined, to cut emissions

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 24, 2011

  Cemex, Inc. agreed to pay a $1.4 million fine for Clean Air Act violations at its cement plant off of Dayton-Yellow Springs Road in Fairborn.

• Tree-trimming policy eyed

  By Diane Chiddister

  At the Feb. 7 Village Council meeting, a citizen urged the Village to reconsider its tree-trimming policy in the wake of the recent ice storm that knocked out power for 80 percent of village homes.

• Villagers rally on ‘fracking’ concern

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Local residents are gearing up to educate themselves and the community about the potential hazards of oil and gas drilling.

• Drillers ask for land leases

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 17, 2011

  An energy company began contacting landowners in Miami Township last week about leasing their land for oil and gas drilling.

• Update on brush collection

  By Kathryn HitchcockFebruary 16, 2011

  Take brush to curb in pieces that seem manageable for collection.

• Fracking concerns arise in village

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 10, 2011

  

  The prospect of oil and gas drilling in the area is raising worries among some Yellow Springs residents because of a controversial drilling technique called fracking. What does the fracking process entail?

• The ice storm cometh, leaving destructive path

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 2, 2011

  

  The ice storm and winds that walloped Yellow Springs Tuesday night left about 75 percent of village residences without power overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday, according to Police Chief John Grote.