Columns/Editorials

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 weekend we spring forward. Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. Sunday. “Daylight saving time, or DST, is the period of the year when clocks are moved one hour ahead,” according to information 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...

Most of us are pretty familiar with the cost of our go-to meal before we even pull into a drive-thru. Some recent announcements from Wendy’s threw that certainty into question. Leaders at the fast foo...

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 we had to make a late pivot on our topic for the Journal-Tribune Podcast and landed on a topic about old school chain restaurants. The idea came after we learned reporter Michael Williamson ...

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 fall, Best Buy announced it would start slowly phasing out the selling of DVDs and Blu-rays. Then, last month, the process officially began and hard copies of movies started disappearing from sto...

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...

I am about to take you, dear reader, down a long rabbit hole so stick with me. Earlier this week the city announced that Marysville had been named on a list of friendly towns in Ohio. While I generall...

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...

New Marysville City Council President/Mayor Donald Boerger told many residents exactly what they wanted to hear during the second meeting of 2024. “No longer will developers use valuable land while ou...

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...

Comedian Pete Holmes does a bit about how the internet has eliminated the human experience of simply not knowing the answer to a question. He details that in days gone by if a question popped into you...

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...

I keep seeing news stories about the three university presidents and the fallout from their testimony on antisemitism last month. The continuous arguing in the news from each side of the political ais...

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...

My wife is a teacher. Each new year when the teachers at her building return from the Christmas holiday, they share a word of the year. Each teacher offers a word they intend to make theirs during the...

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...

The first story I ever wrote at the Journal-Tribune was a yearend story. As an intern in the winter of 1990/91, I was told to compile a list of potential top local stories for 1990, so that the newsro...

Growth will pay for itself, right? That’s what Marysville residents continue to hear from elected officials, but instead what has resulted is higher tax bills. We remember 20 years ago when the area 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...

We’re in the thick of the holiday season, but for my family, December is full of celebrations from the jump. We have four birthdays by the ninth (two of which are on the same day) and shortly after, 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...

As part of his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein developed the idea of gravitational time dilation, essentially theorizing that the way time is perceived is directly impacted by gravitational pull...

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...

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 start, just know I’m well aware that I will lose this argument. I get it, this is not where the world is going and I’m in the minority. Not to mention, it’s a free country and people can...

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...

I have always said that I would rather be busy than bored. In fact, that is one of the things I love best about my job. I have said it before and repeat it often (to remind both the reader and myself ...