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The Union County Health Department is considering a policy that will allow parents to bring their young children to work. During the Union County Board of Health meeting Wednesday, members gauged inte...

Conversation over a proposed fire levy in Jerome Township will continue until the middle of July. The board of trustees held its regular meeting Monday evening where the levy was proposed and the meet...

Stephen Hollen is dressed in historical colonial dress as he performed at the annual Plain City Historical Society meeting Tuesday night. Hollen, a humorist, historian and writer, dressed as Dr. Thoma...

Members of the Union County Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the National Amateur Radio Field Day exercise to be held June 22-23. Since 1933, radio operators across North America have estab...

Jerome Township is changing the dates for its monthly meetings. On Monday night, trustees voted to move the regular meetings to the first and third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. Trustee and board cha...

Roadwork on Scottslawn Road is set to start on July 1. The above picture shows one phase of the project that will close the road between Route 736 and Weaver Road. The picture below shows another phas...

Bev Wasserbeck, food service director for North Union, presented a report to the board of education at North Union’s regular meeting Monday night. She stated that 38.7% of North Union students are enr...

With the start of summer and outdoor activities, diseases spread by ticks are increasing in Ohio. While no tick-borne disease cases have been reported in Union County, the Union County Health Departme...

The Village of Richwood is once again under water. Residents around the town are dealing with high water, flooded yards and basements, and road closures in and around town. Several spots have high wat...

The ball fields of Schwartzkopf Park are shown flooded by the waters of Mill Creek which spilled its banks Sunday afternoon. Northern portions of Union County reported as much as four inches of rain o...

Monday Madness June 17 at 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Monday Madness is back - join us for special guests, programs, and fun every Monday throughout Summer Reading. This week’s program is: Egg Drop Challenge. Fo...

Marysville First Presbyterian Church at the corner of West Fifth and Court streets was decked out for Flag Day on Friday. Flag Day, which falls within National Flag Week, is a time when Americans are ...

Firefighters from several area departments battled a shed fire at 15183 Harmon-Patrick Road near Richwood Friday afternoon. The fire destroyed the structure and later caused damage to a nearby home. N...

A federal magistrate has terminated a lawsuit against the Marysville Exempted Village School District. Former Northwood Elementary School Principal Melissa Hackett had filed suit in federal court, cla...

Alice Mackey, Youth Reference Assistant at the Marysville Public Library, reads a story to a group of children at the Marysville Municipal Swimming Pool Friday. Throughout the summer, the library offe...

Charlie Manzoni, of Minnesota, poses at a marker for the Continental Divide in New Mexico during his cross-country cycling tour. Over 50 days, he plans to cycle from the Pacific to Atlantic Ocean to r...

County and city officials are exploring a possible solution to the traffic congestion issue at a pair of area railroad crossings in Marysville. At the county commissioners’ meeting on Tuesday, county ...

Plain City is looking at the benefits of an impact fee study that could potentially bring additional revenue into the village. Representatives from Strand and Associates, a civil engineering firm in C...

What started with a disabled car has ended in indictments for several Columbus men. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Tranez Minnifield, 21, Kenyetta Glass, 32, and Todd Hicks, 19, all of Colum...

Construction is underway at the former Richwood Bank building on West Fifth Street where the renovated space will eventually house the Union County Prosecutor’s office. Crews demolished the drive-thru...

North Lewisburg officials are concerned that a community service program is being abused. Nearly 10 years into the village’s community clean-up program, the quantity of rubbish being collected is incr...

The Maple Street reconstruction project in Plain City will not be finished by its projected date of completion of June 21. Weather delays and project obstacles have led contractors to request an exten...

Richwood Village Council members were told that there are three levies which are coming up for renewal. There is a 1.2-mill levy for the general fund, which brings in $30,885, set to expire soon. Afte...

Plain City residents will soon see stricter consequences for not maintaining their property. Village council passed an ordinance Monday evening that would amend the existing code dealing with weed and...

Officials say the Village of Milford Center is losing nearly $24,000 a year as a result of discrepancies in water billing and infiltration issues. At Monday’s council meeting, Mayor Virgil Reisinger s...

At Monday’s meeting, Marysville Council heard a first reading for Kenmore Place, a proposed 264-unit apartment complex. Above, the complex is proposed for 18.76 acres on Coleman’s Crossing Boulevard, ...

A two-story, duplex, made of shipping containers, is under construction at 714-716 Collins Avenue, off Linden Street. Officials say the apartments will be “cutting edge.” (Journal-Tribune photo by Mac...

Pictured above, from left to right, are Rorke Warne of Springdale Baptist Church, Gene Miller of Agape Community Fellowship and Jeff Schooley of First Presbyterian with a with a sign promoting the loc...

The Union County Health Department’s vector control intern, Collin Brown, set the first mosquito traps of the season last week near Mill Creek in Marysville. Brown, an undergraduate student at Ohio Un...

Fields, like this one, across Union County are not as full as usual seasons. The wet spring has made planting difficult for local farmers. (Journal-Tribune photo by Michael Williamson) –––– This farme...