Reilly Dixon

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Flood ravages Glen Helen

1 week ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

A brief, but violent storm system passed over Yellow Springs late Saturday night, June 7, causing flooding and downed tree limbs throughout portions of the village. The brunt of the storm seems to have hit Glen Helen Nature Preserve the hardest. An estimated three inches of rain fell in a single hour that night, according to Glen Helen Executive Director Nick Boutis, causing the Yellow Springs Creek to rise suddenly and surge over public trails and walkways.
Planning Commission recommends Council's approval for Windsor apartments

1 week ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

On Tuesday, June 10, Columbus-based real estate developer Windsor Companies returned to Planning Commission — this time, to get approval for a two-building, 96-unit apartment complex at the site of the former Antioch College Student Union.
Water and ink - Lucky Bunny helps Village open pool

2 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

Swimmers rejoice: The Gaunt Park Pool — the only public pool in Greene County — is now open, only slightly behind schedule. Late last month, ahead of the previously scheduled opening on Memorial Day, the Village Parks and Recreation team was preparing the pool by completing the county’s public health inspection and ensuring all operational standards were met. But during final checks, staff observed inconsistent performance from the pool’s circulation pump.
BREAKING | Multiple downtown Yellow Springs businesses broken into

2 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

Several downtown Yellow Springs storefronts were robbed overnight, with some shop owners returning to work Sunday morning, June 15, to find broken glass and stolen money. These break-ins occurred in the hours that followed the semi-annual Yellow Springs Street Fair, which brought several thousand visitors to the downtown thoroughfares. Shops broken into include several in Kings Yard — Tibet Bazaar, the Village Herb Shoppe and Wander & Wonder.
Film Review | New schemes from the king of twee

2 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

I’m susceptible to no greater siren song than seeing the title of a new Wes Anderson flick sunbathing on the Little Art marquee — I’m crashing into the front row the first chance I get. Top to bottom, his filmography just delights me, and always has — except maybe those few self-conscious years when I shunned my natural, so-called hipster impulses. I was a fool; life’s too short to deny the heart what it wants. The dollhouse worlds Anderson builds are stunning time and time again.
Neighbors sound off on proposed 84-acre annexation

2 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

At regular meetings of both the Miami Township Board of Trustees and Village Council on Monday, June 2, a group of residents who live on and near the section of East Enon Road south of the high school came before the public bodies to express their concerns about potential annexation of nearby land into the Village of Yellow Springs.
Pick a banjo, any banjo

2 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

When 77-year-old Geoff Hohwald moved to Yellow Springs from Georgia last year to be closer to family, he brought with him a few banjos. Well, maybe not a few banjos; rather, a lot of banjos — hundreds of banjos. Hohwald’s humble ranch home, just a few blocks from downtown Yellow Springs, is overflowing with pre-World War II Gibsons, vintage Japanese hard shells, Stellings, Recording Kings, Hubers, Gold Tones, open-backs, beginners and many, many more.
Short Street to close for summer

2 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

Yellow Springs Spring Street Fair is almost here. On Saturday, June 14, dozens of thousands of visitors will pack the downtown thoroughfares to partake in the semiannual festivities of shopping and socializing, eating and dancing. By 5 p.m., when the fair ends, the hundreds of vendors will pack up, and the Public Works crew will reset the roads.
Invasive spotted lanternfly spreads in Ohio

3 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced earlier this month that it has expanded the state’s quarantine area for the spotted lanternfly to six additional counties in northeast and northwest Ohio. Eighteen of Ohio’s 88 counties — including Franklin, home of Columbus; Hamilton, home of Cincinnati; and Cuyahoga, home of Cleveland — are now under quarantine for the invasive insect. The majority of the affected counties are in the northern and eastern edges of the state.
Windsor to return to Planning Commission with 96-unit apartment proposal

3 weeks ago | ysnews.com | Reilly Dixon

On Tuesday, June 10, Columbus-based real estate developer Windsor Companies will return to Planning Commission — this time, to get approval for a 96-unit apartment complex at the site of the former Antioch College Student Union. Last month, the developer had requested Planning Commission’s approval for a 128-unit apartment complex; when met with sizable public pushback on the density of the proposal, Windsor went back to the drawing table to come up with a plan for fewer units.