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Area residents braved the 90-plus degree heat Friday evening to watch the annual Plain City Steam Threshers parade. Pictured among the procession’s entries was this early 20th Century steam engine. Th...

Emergency personnel from the Pleasant Valley Fire Department and Jerome Township Division of Fire assisted with an injury crash, vehicle roll-over at the intersection of Route 161 and Plain City-Lafay...

The Union County Health Department (UCHD) has received a grant to facilitate distribution of naloxone, a drug that reverses the effect of opioid overdoses, throughout the region. UCHD, in partnership ...

After months of conversation, Jerome Township is moving forward with a fire levy on this year’s ballot. At a continued meeting of the township trustees Friday morning, the board approved a 5.5 mill fi...

Marysville is getting several new police officers and it has an agreement with the school district to thank. The Marysville finance committee recently approved the hiring of three new patrol officers ...

The Columbus Division of Fire’s bomb squad was in Marysville on Thursday to help local law enforcement dispose of a suspicious package. At approximately 10:57 a.m., Thursday, a woman called police fro...

Birthdays Diane Brubaker, Lee Kerns, John Wykstra, Hannah Carpenter, Bradley Hagstrom, Daisey Green, Tammy Baker, Cinda Fleming, Karen Barnes, Jason LeVan, Maggie Green, Michelle Devecky, Shavonda Nea...

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD Christian Assembly 1003 N. Maple St. Donald R. Moceri, Pastor Childrens Church-10:30a Worship-10:30a Sunday School-6:30p Tuesday Ladies Bible Study-9a Wednesday Evening Bible Study-7...

The Fairbanks community is grieving this morning following the death of a local boy. Lance Emberling, with the Union County Coroner’s Office, confirmed that an 11 year-old boy had died, the result of ...

This rendering shows a preliminary design plan for the proposed Madison Meadows mixed-use development in Plain City. The 104 acres of land would house three sub-sections of mixed-use housing and a 12-...

This weekend will be one of the hottest yet this summer. With temperatures nearing the triple-digits, the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning. The warning will be in effect f...

Marysville Division of Police officers and fire department medics respond to an address on West Fourth Street Wednesday morning. A one-month-old girl was transported from the scene and later pronounce...

Jerome Township is one step closer to putting a fire levy on the November ballot. At their regular meeting Tuesday night, township trustees approved a resolution declaring the necessity for the levy a...

Tractors are moving into place for the 2019 Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association’s annual steam show at Pastime Park in Plain City. The event kicks off Thursday, July 18 at 10 a.m. with the openin...

Drivers in northern Union County will see road-paving crews out throughout the coming weeks.   The annual chip sealing projects began this week, starting on roads northeast of Marysville. Crews from t...

A variety of options are on the table for the 2019 Marysville football season. Construction crews say the stadium project is behind schedule, but officials hope that with some luck, it will be ready f...

(Christy Leeds is Union County Extension Educator, 4-H and Youth Development and Extension Director. She can be reached by email: leeds.1@osu.edu or by calling 644-8117 or (800) .8584. The OSU Extensi...

About 17,000 Marysville residents were without power Monday after a Dayton Power and Light (DP&L) equipment failure. Mary Ann Kabel, DP&L Director of Corporate Communications, said that about 9:30 a.m...

Work on the Fairbanks Life Skills Lab is progressing and the facility is expected to be ready for the opening of school, district officials said at Monday night’s board of education meeting. The lab i...

For the first time, the Union County Fair will sell beer during its concert. Beer and other alcoholic beverages will be sold only during the Travis Denning, Dillon Carmichael and North to Nashville co...

Pictured above is Jerry Burns, far right, with his reserve champion steer at the 1965 Union County Fair. Also pictured, from left to right, are Dave Burns, Paul King and Ken Stanley. In the middle rig...

A pair of apartments made of shipping containers is beginning to take shape. The second story has been added to the side-by-side townhouse-style apartments at 714 and 716 Collins Ave. Officials have s...

United Way of Union County (UWUC) has kicked off its annual “Learn United” Stuff the Bus School Supply Drive. “Preparation is a key to success,” said Corinne Bix, UWUC campaign director. “We want ever...

Prosecutors have added to the list of charges against a convicted sex offender. A Union County Grand Jury has indicted Charles Calvin York, 47, of 109 Papaya Drive, Marysville, charging him with nine ...

Shwetha Raikodkar blows chalk dust off of her drawing of a mermaid on a sidewalk panel adjacent to Partners Park as part of the Friday Night Uptown event in Marysville. The seventh annual Chalk the Bl...

More than half the voters in Union County will be getting a new polling location and officials from the board of elections want them to know about it. Next week, the Union County Board of Elections wi...

A Mansfield truck driver allegedly responsible for two fatal crashes in six months has been indicted. The Union County Grand Jury has charged Doug A. Jones, 79, of Mansfield, with two counts of failur...

The 2019 property revaluation process has begun. Union County Auditor Andrea Weaver’s office is in the middle of property revaluations, which take place every three and six years. Residents should sta...

A fatal crash occurred on an abandoned railroad bed near Woodstock Road in Union Township Thursday evening. The driver of the 1998 Ford Ranger, Jason O. Morris, 43, of Columbus was pronounced dead on ...

For the first time, the City of Marysville will hand out two Quality of Life Awards for 2019. The city’s Quality of Life Award was initially created as a way to show appreciation to residents who had ...