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Work will begin next week on Marysville’s fiber expansion project, starting with the areas shown above in orange. Officials with altafiber, the company doing the work, are proposing to run fiber to all residences in the city, indicated in green on the map. (Graphic submitted)

Above is footage from the Union County Sheriff’s Office drone showing the suspect, Jack Fox II, attempting to elude deputies in the woods near Adams Road in Plain City on Tuesday. The drone allowed the sheriff’s office to locate Fox within 12 minutes of his escape from deputies and track his movements until he was taken into custody. (Photo submitted)

Dispatchers in the Union County Sheriff’s Office 911 center, shown above, handle several calls on a daily basis. Dispatchers in the center on March 13 during the wind storm handled four-times the call volume of a typical afternoon. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kyle Meddles)

Above is concept art of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, depicting three large reactor buildings that each house four units. The Cascade Advanced Energy Facility is a planned project in Washington State, spearheaded by Energy Northwest and supported by Amazon, to deploy multiple X-energy Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs). (Graphic submitted)

A new Union County Sheriff’s Office facility is being planned for the open land on County-Home Road just west of the county Joint Recreation District on County-Home Road, shown above at right. The building will sit between the City of Marysville’s Decker Station 271, shown at bottom-left and the Union County Engineer’s Operations Facility at the top-left. (Graphic submitted)

Above, a home on Shirk Road had the majority of its roof blown off by Friday's high winds. (Photo submitted)

Jonathan Alder’s new addition to Canaan Middle School, shown in the rendering above, will add four new classrooms to the southwest corner of the building at U.S. 42 and Price-Hilliards Road in Madison County. District officials are moving forward with their plan to move three fourth-grade classes to the school in an effort to address capacity issues at Plain City Elementary School. (Graphic submitted)