At Thursday night’s meeting, the Marysville School Board approved a plan that would cut 30 faculty and staff positions, increase pay to play fees, reduce class offerings and eliminate a variety of supplemental contracts as well as the district’s school resource officer program if voters reject the district’s upcoming levy ask. “How do we approach a potential apocalyptic levy failure? How do we balance the five-year forecast without new money? Cuts and reductions,” board member Dick Smith said. The board unanimously approved the contingency plan that would cut about $3.77 million from the budget in the event that November’s levy…
Author: Mac Cordell
With only a few days left of the Union County Fair, local children and families are working to squeeze in as much fun as possible. Pictured above, Wyatt Thomas, 3, slides down the giant slide that is one of the games and attractions at the fair. (Journal-Tribune photo by Mac Cordell) —
At this week’s city council meeting, finance committee and council member Henk Berbee said city officials are “already beginning to move into the 2025 budget.” “Lets be proactive,” Berbee said, reminding council members they are being asked to bring specific budget requests to the clerk of council by Aug. 17, so it can be included in discussions, “rather than wait until the budget is presented and then they bring things up and have to have something cut out.” The finance committee will be reviewing financial policies used in drafting the budget at its August meeting and will review the draft…
Marysville Council got its first chance to hear and weigh in on a plan to develop nearly 600 acres on the city’s south side. At Monday’s city council meeting, the body heard a first reading of legislation to rezone 591.6 acres for the New Albany Company’s Marysville South development. Marysville South is a planned development on nearly 600 acres between the Union County Airport and Scottslawn Road, between the CSX railroad tracks and Weaver Road. Officials from the New Albany Company have said they would like the land rezoned as part of a Planned Unit Development (PUD). The land is…
The Marysville pool has reopened. “So far, it’s been a good day,” Amanda Morris, recreation and events manager for the city, said Monday afternoon. The city reopened the pool at about noon, Monday after the Union County Health Department tested the pool water and gave Marysville officials the green light to reopen. The pool had been closed since last Wednesday evening when a child cut their foot on a piece of glass in the water. Pool officials found additional broken glass in the shallow end of the pool. Officials from the Ohio Department of Health recommended the city close the…
An estimated 10,000 people rallied in Uptown Marysville on Sept. 26, 1992, to greet and hear from President George Bush who was in the midst of a two-day train tour of Ohio and Michigan. Then-Sheriff John Overly recalls the logistics of providing security for an event featuring a high-profile political figure. (File photo) — A week out from the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, former Union County Sheriff John Overly said it is tremendously difficult to prepare for the visit of a high profile politician. Overly would know. As the county’s chief law enforcement officer on Sept. 26,…
My father played soccer in college and apparently enjoyed it. As a child he enrolled me in the municipal rec soccer league, but a love of the sport never took. I don’t remember disliking it, but I also never loved it. Football was a different story. I have loved football for as long as I could remember. My dad liked football but he didn’t love it and he didn’t understand it at much more than a superficial level. But he loved me and I loved football, so he indulged me. The earliest actual memory I have is standing in the…
The Marysville City Pool will be closed for up to a week after a child found glass in the water. Officials looked and found more glass in the pool’s shallow end. At least three other central Ohio pools have been closed this summer due to glass in the water. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff) — Officials at the Union County Health Department and the Ohio Department of Health have closed the Marysville pool, likely for the next week. Anna Krutowskis, with the City of Marysville, confirmed Thursday that officials from the health department closed the pool. “They advised that the…
The Northwest 33 Innovation Corridor Council of Governments (COG) is hiring an executive director. At Wednesday’s special COG meeting, the body voted to hire Doug McCollough as executive director of the Beta District, the council’s name for the region that stretches northwest along U.S. 33 from Columbus to Logan County. According to information from the Beta District, the region is “overseen” by the COG, which includes Dublin, Marysville, Union County and the Marysville-Union County Port Authority. McCollough is the chief information officer/chief technology officer with the City of Dublin, a contract role he has held since 2015. Union County Economic…
Officials and volunteers are getting the Union County Fairgrounds ready for next week’s county fair. Above, Larry Paver helps mulch flower beds on the fairgrounds. Paver is one of dozens of volunteers from ScottsMiracle-Gro helping to beautify the grounds. Officials said several 4-H clubs also contributed “elbow grease” to improve fairground facilities. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff) — The Union County Fair begins in less than a week. The 178th Union County Fair begins Sunday and runs through July 27. Organizers have expressed their excitement about several returning events including the open class art show and the demolition derby. Michelle…
A York Township woman is in jail after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend with a pair of pruning shears. The Union County Grand jury has indicted Ashleigh Rose Lynn, 26, of 26603 Ford Reed Rd., Richwood, charging her with two counts of felonious assault and one count of domestic violence. According to court documents, at about 3:29 a.m., Thursday, deputies from the Union County Sheriff’s Office were called to the home on Ford Reed Road. Court documents indicate Lynn and her boyfriend had gotten into a “verbal altercation.” At some point the altercation allegedly turned physical and Lynn stabbed her live-in…
A local death, unsolved for more than three decades is getting a second look, by a new set of eyes. In June, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office asked the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) to look into the 1993 death of John E. Burnside. Lt. Jeff Stiers, with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, said there was a meeting earlier this summer with the Union County Prosecutor’s Office, BCI and the Marysville Division of Police. “This case has been on the backburner for years,” Stiers said. “We are constantly looking at these things and we just wanted to…
An agreement with The Silos at Marysville may herald good news for the city’s Christmas Star and other projects in the community. Marysville City Council is in the process of approving an agreement with Connect Real Estate for The Silos at Marysville. The Silos project will redevelop about 16.6 acres at the city’s former water treatment plant, the Heritage silo site and several other commercial properties on North Main Street. As part of the deal, Connect is agreeing to a series of projects that would: Extend the Jim Simmons Trail. Relocate the Streng Bridge from Union Township to create a…
Scott Weeks, right, and his wife, Loretta, left, along with their son, Chris, center, own and operate Weeks Plumbing. The local company, which specializes in both new construction pluming and plumbing service, is celebrating 30 years in business. (Photo submitted) — Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of stories celebrating multi-generational family-owned businesses in the community. The stories will run each Thursday leading up to an Aug. 1 special edition highlighting the Marysville Journal-Tribune’s 175th anniversary. — Scott and Loretta Weeks didn’t start with the intent of running a family business, but they are certainly glad it…
For a third meeting, a group of local residents was at Marysville’s City Council meeting asking the group to respond to a series of comments member Mark’s Reams wife, and others, have made. This time, Council member Scott Hunter said he wanted to “take a moment to address some of these comments” and to add some context he felt was missing. Hunter said he wanted to comment because he had been “pulled into this discussion” when Walking Distance Brewing Co. supporters asked council to censure Reams or resign. Several years ago, Walking Distance held a drag show as a way…