Hericide will be applied in Oxbow and Willamette sloughs through Aug. 8. Visitors are advised to say out of the water for 24 hours after treatment.

Yellow Springs – located about an hour west of Columbus and a little more than an hour northeast of Cincinnati – is one of the 55 Best Small Towns in America, according to Architectural Digest.

Yellow Springs is home to two bookstores (Epic Book Shop and Dark Star Books), a record store (Toxic Beauty Records)), a Fairy Garden Store, art galleries, T-shirt shops, vintage clothing and toys.

Yellow Springs – located about an hour west of Columbus and a little more than an hour northeast of Cincinnati – is one of the 55 Best Small Towns in America, according to Architectural Digest.