Dear Editor, In 2008 Union County voters approved an additional sales tax to help fund senior services programming and county engineer’s capital improvements. The levy was renewed in 2012, again in 20...

Dear Editor, I am writing in support of the renewal of the five-year, .25% sales and use tax levy. The money generated from the sales tax levy is split evenly with Union County Senior Services and the...

Dear Editor, With the admitted inflation rate of 8.26% and in reality certainly much higher, prices doubling for groceries and gas, and the country likely headed into a recession, Union County will ad...

Dear Editor, I strongly believe that Union County is a wonderful place to live, from Richwood in the north to Plain City in the south, and everywhere in between. One example of Union County’s greatnes...

(Editor’s note: The following letters are submitted as letters to the editor, but written to the Union County Commissioners.) Dear Editor, I do not write letters to my government officials, but I do r...

Dear Editor: I write to acknowledge Dr. Philip Atkins, the board and the staff of the Mental Health & Recovery Board of Union County for their willingness to continually innovate and pilot new recover...

Dear Editor, I am writing to question the policies and judgment of your newspaper, specifically regarding your front-page article of Tuesday, March 1, 2022, titled “Unrelated shooting deaths ruled sui...

Dear Editor, I was initially pleased to see an article on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense charity in the Dec. 15 edition - that is, until I started reading. This was a blatant ...

Dear Editor, In regards to Jerome Township’s Public Safety Officers (PSO) contract with the Sheriff’s Department, Trustees Sloat and Lovejoy have said (the) PSO program is not a sustainable strategy t...

Dear Editor, Sometimes what goes on in Washington seems otherworldly and that certainly seems the case now as Congress is considering a proposal that discriminates among American autoworkers. Specific...

Dear Editor, In discussions about COVID-19, facts, figures and statistics that do not agree with a person’s benefits are minimized, denied or labeled as outright lies. So, no facts, no figures, no sta...

Dear Editor, There is a cancer growing across this country and it is time that “We the People” remove it. I am speaking of the socialist/communist agenda, with their racist and divisive ideologies, sp...

Dear Editor, I want to take this opportunity to applaud the Letter to the Editor written last week by Vicki Watson. What a succinct, informative and fact based letter. People far and wide would be wel...

Dear Editor, I have a few questions for Memorial Health regarding their 2/3 page “A Letter to Our Community” printed in Friday’s paper on page 7. Will you quantify “a surge in COVID patients” accordin...

Dear Editor, President Biden has said those that aren’t vaccinated are a threat to public health. When he and V.P. Kamala were running against President Trump he said “don’t trust the vaccine.” Now he...

Dear Editor, We must do more to strengthen our power grid against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event. Such an event can result from an attack by an enemy, or it can occur naturally. It could result ...

Dear Editor I have been discouraged by the erosion of freedoms over the past couple decades due to things like the patriot act and NSA spying on U.S. citizens. Our government has even decided it is ok...

Dear Editor, Gerrymandering is the drawing of legislative district maps to benefit one political party. Ohio ranks in the top 10 states for unfairly drawing districts. In 2012, President Obama won Ohi...

Dear Editor, I read in the newspaper that Marysville School System gave their teachers a $1,000 bonus and non-teaching staff a $500 bonus. With a price tag of just under $490,000. I thought only compa...

Dear Editor, When I read the article in the paper concerning the Fairbanks schools, I was furious and sad at the same time. Therefore, I can stay silent no longer. The article gave the impression that...

Dear Editor, In Thursday’s (May 20) Journal-Tribune, county Health Commissioner Jason Orcena scrutinized North Union Board of Education for making mask wearing voluntary. He stated that they don’t hav...

Dear Editor, When I had heard that you were seeking public opinion on the solar project, I knew I had to write in. As much as I am in support of renewable energy sources, the placement of and use of l...

Dear Editor, Harvesting electricity from the sun is an excellent opportunity for Ohio farmers. Our son is the seventh generation to be farming with us in Union County. Over that time, we have been res...

Dear Editor, I want to complement Marysville Councilman Carpenter for his recent tweets in support of freshman Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. His support points to an important area of bipartis...

Dear Editor, Most people gripe about government employees being inefficient and overpaid. This is not true about a local court employee who is one of the best I have ever encountered. Her name is Megh...

Dear Editor, I’m writing regarding Aaron Carpenter and calls for removing him from his position on city council. I don’t understand the reasoning for this. He went to a mostly peaceful rally at the Wh...

Dear Editor, This afternoon my wife and I got our Covid-19 shots at the fairgrounds. I was mentally prepared to spend the afternoon in the car, running the engine, moving three feet every once in a wh...

Dear Editor, Marysville has been home for the last 26 years - nearly all of my memories made growing up, were in part, contributed to the people, education, and atmosphere of which the city provided. ...

Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the community who has continued to support the United Way of Union County for the past 62 years. Founded in 1958 as the United Appeals...

Dear Editor, Six weeks after the election that resulted in victory for Joe Biden and just under a week after his self-imposed deadline for the end of the election, Sen. Rob Portman is finally willing ...