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Marysville City Council is moving forward to approve changes to the city’s zoning code. At Monday’s meeting, council heard a first reading of legislation that would amend the city’s zoning code. Zonin...

North Lewisburg Village Council has taken its first steps to address a problem with a troublesome box truck parking along city streets for extended periods of time. Council heard first reading Tuesday...

The Plain City Public Library hosted a “Family Sing-Along” Tuesday evening. The event welcomed children to sing along, karaoke-style to their favorite family-friendly songs. Pictured is Miles Moran, 5...

Richwood Mayor Scott Jerew told council members at Tuesday’s meeting that after he spoke with Ohio Senator David Burke and State Representative Tracy Richardson, that the village will be submitting re...

Plain City residents will need to pay their November utility bills by cash or check. Online bill pay is currently unavailable, as Village Administrator Nathan Cahall said the village encountered techn...

The Plain City Druggist will celebrate its 20th anniversary this weekend. Pictured in the November 1999 photo above are, from left, Mary Lou Lovejoy, Bud Lovejoy, Betty Craft, Robin Craft, Joe Craft, ...

Some schools close as area blanketed by layer of snow Union County residents are waking up to a blanket of white, the season’s first snow. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures dippe...

Milford Center is working on implementing a new property maintenance code. During Monday’s Village Council meeting, members reviewed an “exterior property maintenance and appearance code.” The code wa...

The first snowfall of the season hit Union County overnight. Temperatures dipped into the teens with wind gusts as high as 28 miles per hour according to the National Weather Service. The changing wea...

Doris Leistritz was named the winner of the Journal-Tribune’s Count The Jack-O-Lanterns contest. Readers were asked to count the number of jack-o-lanterns scattered about the newspaper pages in the Oc...

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Bonnell delivers his keynote speech during Sunday’s Voices from the Stone ceremony. The program, sponsored by the Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee honored...

Eastbound lanes of U.S. 33 are open again after a fatal crash closed the highway Sunday and into Monday morning. Troopers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol continue to investigate a fatal crash that ...

A worker paints the windows of the Marysville Elks Lodge at 1130 East Fifth Street Saturday. The painting of the building has drawn a lot of attention as the exterior color was changed from light tan ...

These two images show the highs and lows of Ohio High School playoff football. Above, onlookers celebrate as Jonathan Alder’s Will Heisler (26) goes into the endzone after an interception during the P...

WARREN A bout of what prosecutors are calling “unlucky timing” has led to charges for a Marysville man who was attacked in his own home. Marcus Warren, 23, of 127 Hemlock Drive, is charged with one co...

Pictured above are members of the North Union Agronomy team at the recent National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Team members are, from left to right, Avery Zwayer, Kaylee Smith Joel Krebehenne and ...

A local man is facing charges after he allegedly fired shots at a house following an altercation. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Estell T. Crabtree, 31, of 22839 Northwest Parkway, charging ...

Jerome Township’s zoning department is looking to improve its customer service. At trustee meeting earlier this week, Director of Departments/Fire Chief Douglas Stewart said he has been working with t...

Librarians in Plain City are working through a program titled Librarians on the Loose. As part of the program, the local librarians used tools and equipment available for loan at the library to build ...

In this Ohio Army National Guard photo, Jones, center, as state command sergeant major, visits with soldiers of the 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bliss, Texas after they had just returne...

The Ohio Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it will contribute another $4.3 million to the project to improve the interchange at U.S. 33/state Route 161 and Post Road. (Photo submit...

Voters in Marysville were in the mood for change Tuesday, voting out a pair of City Council incumbents. “I will forever be grateful for the group of citizens who want to see change,” Donald Boerger, c...

The Marysville Board of Education will retain two of its current members. According to unofficial results from the Union County Board of Elections, Sue Devine and Amy Powers will hold their seats on t...

Triad Local Schools will soon see funding for athletic facility and building security improvements. According to unofficial results from the Champaign County, Logan County and Union County Boards of E...

A pair of tractor trailer trucks collided shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday on the U.S. 42 bypass around Plain City. Officials said a vehicle on the bypass made a quick U-turn in the road, using a small pu...

By Mac Cordell and Kayleen Petrovia Jerome fire issue fails; Pleasant Valley passes Voters in the Plain City area, approved one fire levy while rejecting another. According to unofficial results from ...

Marysville officials want to look at the possibility of expanding the Marysville Outdoor Refreshment Area. Last summer the city created the Marysville Outdoor Refreshment Area (MORA) for one event, th...

Election officials have reported that voting today seems to be going well. The Marysville High School Fieldhouse, above, is one of several new polling locations. Officials have consolidated several po...

Pictured above, in a recent photo, is fall foliage along the Jim Simmons trail near Schwartzkopf Park. Trees aren’t likely to hold onto their colorful leaves much longer, as the upcoming forecast incl...

Sgt. Rustun Schack, of the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Columbus Post, was injured Saturday after Kyle Price allegedly rammed his cruiser with the flatbed truck he was driving. Schack was treated and r...