Columns/Editorials

We have said all along growth would be coming to Union County. It’s obvious with all the housing projects now on the front burner it is happening. In a way, it’s a compliment that those outside our co...

I have spent an inordinate amount of my life, and specifically this week, looking for my keys. I lose my keys so often that I regularly need to factor a few extra minutes of looking into my schedule. ...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Before I even knew how to drive, I remember a family member telling me about one thing I needed to be especially careful about once I did have my license. If I was stopped at a gas station, she told m...

This photo is one of many taken by local photographer Weldon Shaw during the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. His specialty was high school sporting events and other local activities and personalities. The photo...

I realized the other day that at some point I picked my daughter up and held her for the last time. I lifted her off the ground as a child and then it never happened again. I don’t have the faintest r...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

On Sunday, America celebrates its independence with the Fourth of July holiday. In recent years, however, that celebration seems to have lost some of its steam. There was a day when citizens proudly d...

I am a hypocrite. We all are. I make my son do things that I know are good for him, though I don’t do them myself. I look in judgment at others who behave in the exact same ways I manage to justify fo...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Well, another week has gone by and I’m still not a millionaire. Gov. Mike DeWine’s Vax-a-Million campaign is over and I’m no wealthier than I was when it started. It’s not the result I was hoping for,...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Last weekend, the Union County Joint Recreation District fields on County Home Road were host to the 2021 Dean Lowry Memorial Marysville Mitts baseball tournament. The UCJRD complex has been a work in...

I had a plan. It was a good and creative plan. I had intended to write this column from the road. I am on vacation and I had intended to write about how much easier traveling with children is now, tha...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Ever listen to the TV commercial of JG Wentworth in which various persons say, “It’s my money and I want it now?” That same sentiment currently applies to the IRS and the payment of tax refunds. For t...

The older I get, the more I wonder if I’m destined to walk the streets of this bustling city with tinfoil wrapped around my head. In the information age, I was fully prepared to give up some privacy f...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Real life isn’t always a perfect photo op. We’re all fully aware of this, but social media has convinced us to pretend that it is. We let our food get cold while we take artsy photos to post online. W...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Memorial Day is Monday and it is meant to be a more somber holiday since it honors those men and women who have given their lives in the military service of their country. It used to be on May 30 each...

The Roaring 20s was an interesting period of U.S. and European history, but I wonder how many people truly know the origins of the era. The simplest snapshot of the period would be the F. Scott Fitzge...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

Earlier this week it was announced that Red, White and Boom is being postponed. Several in our newsroom talked about our trips to the event. I said I had been once and hated it. Managing Editor Chad W...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

This week, May 9-15, is National Hospital Week, and no small city can boast it has a finer hospital than Marysville and the surrounding Union County area. Nearly 70 years ago, March 17, 1952, Memorial...

Around this time last year, we started to hear speculation about a potential “pandemic baby boom.” While that doesn’t seem to have panned out, I’m much more excited about what did - the pandemic pet b...

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information...

On Tuesday, the state of Montana ended its participation in the federal unemployment program. Governor Greg Gianforte said he wants the Treasure State to be open for business because he has heard from...

When people look back on this year and the last, I think they will be recognized as the catalyst of some amazing changes in the use of technology and the general structure of the American workforce. I...