Reilly Dixon

For the last three years, the Yellow Springs Community Foundation has been giving away free money — in a sense — and there’s more available now.

At the most recent regular Village Council meeting, Monday, May 4, Council members mulled over the implications of a future piece of legislation: imposing a year-long moratorium on the creation of any large-scale data center in Yellow Springs.

In its 50 years of doing business on South High Street — in arguably one of Yellow Springs’ sleepiest residential neighborhoods — ElectroShield has grown into a company that more than 400 commercial clients around the world depend on for very specific kinds of electrical connectors.

Questions about downtown parking — Does the village have enough? Does it need more? — were once again before Council at the group’s May 4 regular meeting.

Donors’ best intentions notwithstanding, one never knows what they might encounter at one of the village’s several Little Free Pantries. Expired garbanzo beans and brown bananas are regrettably just as common as the shelf-stable necessities.

At the most recent regular Village Council meeting, Monday, May 18, Council members broached the possibility of changing a couple longstanding policies and programs — one being the onus of sidewalk maintenance and upkeep.

Equal parts vintage thrift store and small appliance repair shop, Golden Goods plans to open its doors at 252 Xenia Ave. — the site of the former toy store — on Friday, June 5. Tentative hours will be Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Where does Yellow Springs get its electricity? How much of it is generated through renewable means? And how do our sources for electricity affect our monthly bills?

When he’s not putting in time at his family’s carpet store or doing miscellaneous handyman jobs, he’s at home, taking care of his aging parents. What time the 27-year-old can eke out for himself, he’s reliably in the ring, sharpening his hooks and quickening his footwork.

At the group’s most recent regular meeting, Monday, June 1, Village Council unanimously voted to approve a moratorium on any new “smoke shops” from starting a business in Yellow Springs.