Sports

June 26, 2026

Pictured are the Raymond and Black Knight Furies youth baseball teams. Front row, from left, are Leo Whiteside, Alex Pope, Max Spain, Christian Kummerer, Junior Cordle, Jagger Hucle, Cayden Witte, Jaxton McCoy, Bohannon Coomer, Kenny Parrish and Ryler Steele. Back row, from left, are Carson Wright, Isaiah Berry, Garrett Austin, Jase Carmin, Lane Thomas, Mason Pope, Easton Humphrey, Paxton Eggleston, Griffin Lott and Nash Harrington. Coaches, from left, are Caleb Carmin, Dallas Thomas, Curtis Kummerer, Ricky Austin, Rachel Parrish and Austin Hucle. Not pictured are Theodore Guittar and coach Kenny Parrish. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)

8U baseball silver bracket championship

The Marysville Junior Baseball Softball Association held their 8U baseball silver-bracket championship on Wednesday.

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NU golf players participate in HOJGA tournament

Sports

Ethan Monroe getting ready to hit the ball during the 2025 campaign (Journal-Tribune file photo)

NU golf players participate in HOJGA tournament

By Sarah Vollrath

July 6, 2026

NU golf players participate in HOJGA tournament The Heart of Ohio Junior Golf Association held their Blues Creek G.C. tournament on June 29 in Marysville. Seven local golf players from the North Union...

Fairbanks football looking for “renewal of commitment”

Sports

Bryson Griffith running the ball against Madison-Plains during the 2025 campaign.

Fairbanks football looking for “renewal of commitment”

By Sarah Vollrath

July 6, 2026

Head coach for the Fairbanks football team, Dave Carroll, is calling for a “renewal of commitment” for the 2026 campaign. “Our sports at Fairbanks are great, I was telling the kids, ‘why not us?’,” sa...

USGA Senior Open Championship is underway

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Image of Colin Montgomerie preparing for tee time at the USGA Senior Open Championships (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)

USGA Senior Open Championship is underway

By Sarah Vollrath

July 1, 2026

The USGA Senior Open Championship will begin on the second of July at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus, accepting nearly 3,000 entries from 49 states, 38 foreign countries, the District of Columbia...

Sports

Ethan Monroe getting ready to hit the ball during the 2025 campaign (Journal-Tribune file photo)

NU golf players participate in HOJGA tournament

By Sarah Vollrath

July 6, 2026

Sports

Bryson Griffith running the ball against Madison-Plains during the 2025 campaign.

Fairbanks football looking for “renewal of commitment”

By Sarah Vollrath

July 6, 2026

America’s birthday meets small-town tradition

News, Plain City, Plain City News

Above, a large crowd fills downtown Plain City during one of the community’s original Corn Carnivals. Held annually from 1914 through 1919, the Corn Carnival drew visitors from across the region with parades, contests, entertainment and agricultural exhibits. The festival celebrated the area’s agricultural heritage while bringing together residents for one of the community’s largest annual gatherings. More than a century later, the Corn Carnival remains one of the most cherished traditions in Plain City’s history. (Photos submitted)

America’s birthday meets small-town tradition

Plain City revives Corn Carnival for country’s 250th

By Jack Christian

July 4, 2026

The Village of Plain City is preparing to host a week of festivities as part of the nationwide America 250 commemoration, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. The celebration will b...

Living history: Union County’s pioneer story lives on

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The Doellinger-Geer cabin is pictured circa 1898 on the family farm along Weaver Road south of Marysville. Shown, left to right, are Anna Elisabeth Rausch Doellinger (1829-1904), widow of Stephen Doellinger; grandsons Henry Geer, Albert Geer and Walter Geer; daughter Anna Mary Doellinger Geer; and son-in-law John Leonard Geer. Two younger grandchildren, Lawrence Geer and Matilda “Tillie” Geer, who was born in the cabin in 1903 and is believed to have been the last person born there, were not yet born when the photograph was taken. (Photo submitted)

Living history: Union County’s pioneer story lives on

Historic cabin finds new home at St. John’s Lutheran Church

By From JT Staff Reports

July 4, 2026

Editor’s note: The following article is supplied by Nina Boerger. ––– In the spring of 2024, St. John’s Lutheran Church began the process of preserving a piece of Union County history by relocating a ...

Before the fireworks: Marysville’s first Fourth of July

Local News, News

Fireworks light up the night sky during a past Independence Day celebration in Marysville. Community Fourth of July festivities have been a local tradition since 1828, when about 75 people gathered in the village’s tiny frontier settlement for Marysville’s first Independence Day celebration. (Journal-Tribune file photo)

Before the fireworks: Marysville’s first Fourth of July

By From JT Staff Reports

July 4, 2026

Editor’s note: Information from the following story comes from articles appearing in an article in the Marysville Tribune of July 10, 1878 and one from a special Bicentennial edition of the Journal-Tr...

Jonathan Alder: The frontier captive who bridged two worlds

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Jonathan Alder’s cabin at the Madison County Historical Society’s Museum of History. (Photo submitted)

Jonathan Alder: The frontier captive who bridged two worlds

By From JT Staff Reports

July 4, 2026

Few people in Ohio history lived a life as extraordinary as Jonathan Alder. He was a child of the American Revolution, a frontier captive, an adopted son of the Mingo and Shawnee, a warrior in Ohio’s ...