Pictured above is a Marysville school bus which collided with a pickup truck south of Plain City on U.S. 42 Friday night on its way back from the Hilliard Bradley football game. The 45 players and two coaches on the bus, as well as the bus driver, escaped injury in the crash. The truck driver was transported to a Columbus hospital. (Photo submitted) A bus loaded with Marysville football players and coaches returning from Friday’s game at Hilliard Bradley collided with a pickup truck that had run a stop sign just south of Plain City. According to Marysville Superintendent Diane…
Author: Chad Williamson
Marysville’s Erryl Will (40) holds up the ball after recovering a fumble for a touchdown at Hilliard Bradley on Friday. Also pictured for the Monarchs are Cameron Jones (4), Drew Montgomery (14) and Braden Deere (20). (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) It’s amazing to think that a high school team that has outscored its three opponents 82-13 really isn’t yet playing its best football. After Friday night’s 27-7 drubbing of Hilliard Bradley, Marysville coach Brent Johnson was very pleased with many phases of his team’s play, but noted there are still mistakes being made. Those miscues, such as Friday’s two…
Recollections of 9/11 are nothing new. This week has been filled with the stories of any number of individuals with direct ties to Ground Zero. But everyone has their own story about where they were when the towers got hit and I’m no different. I was sitting in the exact same chair I am sitting in as I type this column. I don’t mean the same position on the company organizational chart. I mean the same Aeron Chair that I have used for 25 years at this newspaper. At that time, a small, 19-inch television on a wall of the…
Monarch Gabe Powers (36) hauls in a 41-yard pass reception against Pickerington North on Friday. The Monarchs rolled to a 31-6 victory. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) With Pickerington North playing its first home game of the year in an early-season battle of unbeaten teams, Marysville football coach Brent Johnson knew the Panthers would be fueled by emotion at the opening kickoff. “They’re a big momentum team,” he said. Before the game, he drilled into his charges that they needed come out of the gate hot. They listened. Marysville opened the game with a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown…
Spiking quarantine numbers have led the Marysville Board of Education to change course on its masking policy, put in place less than a month ago. The board voted Thursday night to enact mandatory masking in all district buildings through Oct. 25. According to Superintendent Diane Allen, the district was simply experiencing too many seemingly healthy children being forced to stay home because of Ohio Department of Health (ODH) quarantine guidelines. “We are definitely in a different place than our worst point of last school year,” Allen told the board of education at a meeting Thursday night. At its worst point…
In the middle of trying to stay ahead of an ever-shifting COVID landscape, the Marysville School District is now facing a battle on another front – a “critical” shortage of bus drivers. A communication sent to families Tuesday asked parents to find alternate ways to get children to school beyond district transportation, if possible. “Despite our aggressive recruitment efforts over the last several months, we continue to face a bus driver labor shortage,” the message reads. “All across the country, schools are facing a serious bus driver labor shortage, and we are feeling it right here in Marysville.” The message…
Pictured above is the Marysville School District COVID Dashboard as it appeared this morning. The graphic shows mask symbols next to Edgewood Elementary and Bunsold Middle School, as those two buildings are under a mask mandate for the next 14 days because their percentage of students impacted by the virus, through infection or quarantine, held above 6% for three consecutive days. Edgewood’s numbers have dropped below that threshold recently. Northwood has also moved above the limit but has not been there for three days. (Photo submitted) COVID-19 has already changed the current educational landscape in the Marysville District, just a…
Marysville’s Tanner Powers (7) and a Lancaster player contend for a loose ball on Friday. The Monarchs rolled to a 24-0 victory. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) Marysville fans attending Friday night’s football game against Lancaster saw something they never imagined – the high school version of the 1996 Ohio State Buckeyes. Like that OSU team which saw Joe Germaine and Stanley Jackson share time at quarterback with differing skill sets, this year’s Monarchs squad has a pair of signal callers each bringing their own talents onto the field. The results speak for themselves as Marysville handled the Golden Gales,…
One week into the school year, Marysville is experiencing COVID-related conundrums. According to information released at a school board meeting Thursday night, Bunsold Middle School has seen surging numbers while an entire kindergarten class at Edgewood Elementary has been placed quarantine. “It’s the first week of school and kindergarten students are still learning the parameters and operations of the classroom and there was no guarantee of three feet of distance that entire time and little mask wearing, so therefore the entire class is quarantined,” Superintendent Diane Allen told the board. The Edgewood student will be learning remotely until the quarantine…
Several months ago, during a newsroom discussion about taxes, property revaluation and other governmental necessities that kick a person in the paycheck, a realization washed over me. In the process of local funding increases, the Union County taxpayer is really nothing more than a child of divorce, torn between governmental parents vying for affection. We are just kids being unfairly asked to choose which of our parents or grandparents we love the most at any particular time. But, our government relatives don’t ask for hugs. They ask for money. Who do you love more – your motherly schools or your…
Attendees at Thursday night’s Marysville School Board meeting listen as high school senior Kieran Mulligan voices his support for wearing masks in school. Several people on both sides of the mask issue spoke at the meeting, before the district approved a plan that would only require face coverings if individual buildings pass certain thresholds for transmission. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) As nearby districts reinstate mask mandates in the face of increasing COVID transmission in Ohio, a few dozen residents attended the Marysville School Board meeting Thursday night to see if district would be following suit. The answer – maybe.…
Memorial Health employees will have to wait until Friday afternoon to find out the details of the system’s COVID vaccine mandate. In an email to staff Wednesday afternoon, Memorial CEO Chip Hubbs said recent decisions by other health systems in central Ohio prompted the move. “Our desire has long been to act in collaboration with our central Ohio colleagues, and that is what you see now,” Hubbs wrote. “Every health system in central Ohio will be mandating vaccines and it is likely that many political and non-health care industries will follow.” The email indicates that Memorial purposely took a “wait…
Many people feel like this is the golden age of home entertainment. Streaming services allow people to watch pretty much whatever they want, whenever they want. If a new series comes out on a platform, you can binge watch the entire season in one or two sittings. Everything is at your fingertips, so people can watch at their own leisure. And now these services are even toying around with making big cinema releases available to watch at home on the same day they appear in theaters. Well, to those who want to hammer through a series or watch a first-run…
When Memorial Hospital opened its new inpatient pavilion late in 2020, the second floor of the facility was built with the ability to add more rooms in the future. As it turns out, the future is now. Memorial Health’s Board of Trustees approved a measure Thursday night to allow 12 additional rooms to be added to the three-story tower, to bring the facility total to 48. The new 77,000-square-foot tower currently has 36 patient rooms available, 24 on the third floor and 12 on the second. During the $50-million construction process space for 12 additional rooms was left unfinished, with…
If he were a little younger, Cole Swindell might have built an online following as a springboard to country music superstardom, posting videos so his talent could speak for itself. As it stands, the 38-year-old Swindell had to take the old-fashioned path by building relationships, learning the entire business from the bottom up. When the Georgia native takes the stage at the All Ohio Balloon Fest on Thursday, Aug. 12, it will be the result of a chance encounter at a frat house. Since that night, Swindell has gone on to become a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist with nine No.…