Feed your head – For me, Shark Week rocks

By Kyle Meddles

This upcoming week, I encourage everyone to get a bigger boat.

Starting this Sunday through Saturday, July 26, is the Discovery Channel’s 37th annual edition of Shark Week, which is filled to the brim with enough shark-content to make you skip the beach vacation this summer.

I may begin to sound rid...

Columns/Editorials

Mike Drops – AI at Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers

By Michael Williamson

July 12, 2025

If you’ve visited Wendy’s on West Fifth Street recently, you might’ve noticed the AI voice that now takes your order in the drive-thru. That location has joined others in the switch-over to embracing ...

Columns/Editorials

A Word To The Wise – Paramount payout a blow to free speech

By Chad Williamson

July 3, 2025

The $16-million settlement that Paramount has agreed to pay Donald Trump is trash. It’s bogus, a clear attack on free speech and it shows how the power of the federal government can be leveraged for p...

Columns/Editorials

an editorial – July Fourth holiday has double importance in 2025 and 2026

July 3, 2025

Friday is one of the six main holidays celebrated in the United States. It is July Fourth which marks the date in 1776 that independence from Great Britain was officially declared in the 13 colonies. ...

News, Plain City, Plain City News

Benjamin Franklin attends Steam Threshers parade

By Michael Williamson

July 21, 2025

A Benjamin Franklin lookalike passes out prop $100 bills at the 76th Annual Steam Threshers Grand Parade in Plain City on Friday. The man dressed as one of America’s founders was just one of several p...

Local News, News

A quick embrace

By Aleksei Pavloff

July 21, 2025

Bits 4H Club member Brookelynn Coder (right) embraces Double for Lily ahead of a competition at the Union County Fairgrounds Monday morning. The fair continues through Saturday. (Journal-Tribune photo...

Local News, News, Police Beat

MPD stops 12-year-old driver

By From JT Staff Reports

July 21, 2025

A local 12-year-old girl was arrested after taking her mom’s car for a drive without permission in the early morning hours on Monday. At 3 a.m., Marysville Division of Police Captain Nate Sachs said t...

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Fair week is here

By Aleksei Pavloff

July 21, 2025

Lexi Doty (left) cleans the tail of her steer, Wario, following a barn meeting and ahead of weigh-in at the Union County Fairgrounds Monday morning. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

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Honda’s Anna engine plant turns 40

By From JT Staff Reports

July 21, 2025

Honda’s Anna plant will celebrate its 40th anniversary this week. The company will officially mark the occasion on Tuesday, highlighting how the Anna Engine Plant (AEP) is the largest Honda auto engin...

Glass hopes to replicate past success in return as JA head football coach

Sports

Jonathan Alder head football coach Brett Glass watches the action during a recent 7-on-7 passing scrimmage. Glass has returned to the top of the Pioneer program after serving as the head coach at Dublin Jerome the past four seasons. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Glass hopes to replicate past success in return as JA head football coach

By Tim Miller

July 21, 2025

Brett Glass served a successful seven-season run as Jonathan Alder’s head football coach from 2014-2020. During that time, he led the Pioneers to a 58-17 record and several appearances in the state pl...