Marysville superintendent candidates trimmed to six

Education, Local News, Marysville School Board

March 7, 2025

Marysville superintendent candidates trimmed to six

MHS Principal Ken Chaffin makes the cut

By Chad Williamson

While the number of candidates applying to be Marysville’s next superintendent may appear low, it is not out of line with what the board of education was told to expect.

Only 11 individuals applied for the position when the application period ended in February. Officials hope to have the final cand...

Court News, Local News, News

“I did commit the murder”

Man who killed father with knife in Mill Valley admits guilt

By Kyle Meddles

March 21, 2026

“I did commit the murder.” Those were the words of 28-year-old Micaiah Swindler, the man charged with stabbing his father to death at a Mill Valley home in April of 2025, during a plea hearing in the ...

Education, Local News, Marysville School Board, ...

Schools plan for AI surge

By Chad Williamson

March 21, 2026

Officials with the Marysville Exempted Village School District are exploring how artificial intelligence could eventually be used in classrooms, by teachers, students and, eventually, by the school bu...

Local News, News

County EMA director named to national post

By From JT Staff Reports

March 21, 2026

Last year, Union County’s Emergency Management Agency worked to received accreditation from a national organization. This year, its director, Brad Gilbert, will be one of the people who now votes to a...

News, Plain City, Plain City News

A March hail in Plain City

By Michael Williamson

March 23, 2026

Quarter-size hail pieces land with a bang on rooftops and walkways in Plain City Sunday night. A thunderstorm system passed through the area into the evening hours, bringing thunder, lighting, rain an...

Monarch hoopsters earn conference accolades

Sports

Cole Brewer (left) and Jenna Hackworth (right) of Marysville have earned first-team basketball honors in the Ohio Capital Conference Cardinal Division for the 2025-2026 season. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller)

Monarch hoopsters earn conference accolades

By Tim Miller

March 23, 2026

Several Marysville High School basketball players have earned Ohio Capital Conference honors for the 2025-2026 season. Cole Brewer earned first-team accolades in the circuit’s Cardinal Division for th...

Cagers earn Ohio Heritage Conference honors

Sports

Mara Vicari, left, and Evan Wiedmann, right, of Fairbanks have been named to the Ohio Heritage Conference first-team basketball squads. Wiedmann was also named the circuit’s North Division boys player of the year. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller)

Cagers earn Ohio Heritage Conference honors

By Tim Miller

March 23, 2026

The Ohio Heritage Conference has named its boys and girls basketball teams for the 2025-2026 season. Fairbanks junior Evan Wiedmann has been named the boys player of the year in the OHC North Division...

MHS graduate Connor Smith captures NCAA Division III national indoor high jump title

Sports

Marysville High School graduate Connor Smith displays his NCAA Division III national indoor high jump championship trophy. Smith cleared 6-11 1/2 during the recent national indoor meet that was held in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo submitted)

MHS graduate Connor Smith captures NCAA Division III national indoor high jump title

By Tim Miller

March 23, 2026

Marysville is the home of a new NCAA college sports national champion. Connor Smith, who is a junior member of the Ohio Wesleyan University men’s track and field team, won the NCAA Division III indoor...

Columns/Editorials

A word to the wise: My yearbook, writing a wrong

By Chad Williamson

March 23, 2026

A few years before I stepped onto my path as a professional writer, I sat down to cook up the first collection of words that I knew would exist beyond my lifetime. The memories you record below your s...

Columns/Editorials

Feed your head: A Fairbanks full-circle moment

By Kyle Meddles

March 23, 2026

Since a group of Fairbanks students visited the newsroom on Thursday, I have had a strange full-circle feeling regarding where I am in life now and my high school alma-mater. Over seven years ago, I w...