Visioning moves into action steps
Creating affordable housing, establishing an economic development plan and creating a community health and fitness center were the three most popular action steps that arose from this year’s visioning...
View ArticleSeek the fire-and-rescue life?
Alex Wendt came to Miami Townsip Fire-Rescue to do something to serve the community and because he wanted to see what the life of a firefighter was about. A student at Wittenburg at the time, he hoped...
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MTFR responding to uptick in emergency calls
Twenty-seven members of the Miami Township Fire-Rescue squad participated in a controlled burn of the Rabbit Run farmhouse on Dayton Street on Saturday, Aug. 7. The Miami Township Fire-Rescue squad has...
View ArticleCemex rezoning request denied
Last week Xenia Township Trustees voted down a request from Cemex to rezone land the company owns southwest of Yellow Springs that would have allowed the company to construct a new quarry there. The...
View ArticleWoman rescued in John Bryan State Park
A 25-year old Xenia woman was rescued from the side of a creek in John Bryan State Park after a small fall. Miami Township Fire-Rescue personnel were dispatched at 5:12 p.m. Tuesday, April 3. The woman...
View ArticleVillage objects to court ruling in tap-in case
On Friday, April 20, the Village of Yellow Springs filed objections to the first ruling by a Greene County magistrate who decided in favor of Ken and Betheen Struewing in their case against the...
View ArticleTownship losing estate revenue
Like most other local government offices, Miami Township is currently in the process of tightening its budget for the 2013 fiscal year. As a result of reduced state and local funds, the Township will...
View ArticleTownship accounts audited
Miami Township elected officials were ordered to pay $11,624 back to the Township last week when a state audit revealed that they overpaid themselves in 2010 and that money in the Township’s books is...
View ArticleBarr house to disappear in a controlled burn
The historic house on the Barr property downtown will be burned in a training exercise this month, according to Miami Township Fire Chief Colin Altman at Village Council’s April 1 meeting. Weather...
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Miami Township Fire-Rescue squad gets accredited
Volunteerism may have dwindled over the past 50 years, but no where is it felt more seriously as a matter of life and death than in small town fire and EMS departments across the country. Miami...
View ArticleMTFR still seeks property
Miami Township has been looking for a new home for its Fire-Rescue team for over three years, and this summer the land option they had banked on since 2011 fell through. The price of the former clinic...
View ArticleTownship to float levy renewal
Miami Township Trustees voted at their meeting this month to place a Township Fire-Rescue levy renewal on the ballot in November. The trustees chose a renewal, which does not increase taxes, for...
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Miami Township Fire-Rescue calls for 9/11 memorial climbers
Every year since 2005, a group of 343 fire fighters, the number who died in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, has climbed 110 flights of stairs, the number of stories in the World Trade Center...
View ArticleMiami Township Fire-Rescue honors 12 service members
Last week Miami Township Fire-Rescue honored eight graduates of the most recent fire fighter training class and swore in eight new volunteers to their ranks in a ceremony held Thursday, Nov. 13, at...
View ArticleCouncil and Trustees meet— Strategic planning considered
At a special joint meeting between Village Council and the Miami Township Trustees on March 30, leaders discussed how best to step up strategic planning for the Village and Township, in order to...
View ArticleMiami Township budgets ambulance
• Sidebar: MTFR performs rope rescue in Clifton Gorge. Miami Township Trustees will vote on the approval of the Township’s annual tax budget at their meeting Monday, July 6, at 7 p.m. at the fire...
View ArticleRope rescue in Clifton Gorge
• Return to main article: Miami Township budgets ambulance. The Miami Township Fire-Rescue squad pulled a Centerville youth from the Clifton Gorge after she fell 30–60 feet into the “narrows” on...
View ArticleVillage Council — Home, Inc. and Township partner
In the latest bid to acquire the former Wright State Physicians Clinic property on Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs Home, Inc. and Miami Township are partnering on a joint venture to site both affordable...
View ArticleBoard approves sale— WSU land sale may advance fire station plans
The Wright State University Board of Trustees voted last Friday to approve the potential sale to a qualified buyer of about four acres of land in Yellow Springs, the former site of the medical clinic...
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WSU sells land to Township for fire station
Culminating an almost six-year process, the Wright State University Board of Trustees on Wednesday, Oct. 26, unanimously voted to sell a portion of WSU-owned land in Yellow Springs to Miami Township...
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