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Almost time for Santa
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By From JT Staff Reports 
December 20, 2018
This reader submitted photo shows the Christmas decorations on a home at 185 Mulberry St. Though the holiday is fast approaching, readers still have time to submit photos of their decorating talents f...
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 20, 2018
The Union County Health Department (UCHD) is preparing to take action on an overgrown property in Milford Center. At a board of health meeting Wednesday, members discussed how the Village of Milford C...
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 20, 2018
The Marysville Board of Education has agreed to a two-year contract extension with the Marysville Education Association (MEA), impacting employee insurance plans while guaranteeing pay increases. Mary...
Commissioner race spending detailed
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By Mac Cordell 
December 20, 2018
While Chris Schmenk garnered more than 70 percent of the vote in November’s election for Union County Commissioner, it was her opponent, Tiffanie Roberts, who spent more money. State law requires near...
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By Will Channell 
December 20, 2018
Marysville city worker Chad Morse used this morning to grind down an unsafe bolt that was jutting out on playground equipment in Mill Valley Central Park. Morse said the maintenance is the result of s...
Plans for Woodside Development adjusted to meet city concerns
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By Will Channell 
December 19, 2018
Pictured is the first phase of the Woodside Development going in on Columbus Avenue. This phase, which was approved at last week’s design review board meeting, will focus on multi-family residences. (...
Lee retiring
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By Mac Cordell 
December 19, 2018
Family, friends and others gathered Tuesday to honor outgoing commissioner Gary Lee. His term ends at the end of this year. Lee has served as commissioner for 16 years. As part of the retirement recep...
Local students form robotics teams
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By Will Channell 
December 19, 2018
From left, Camden Stromp, Truvor James and Trenton Inskeep work on the Space Dragons’ robot at a team meeting earlier this week. (Journal-Tribune photo by Will Channell) –––– The future of robotics lo...
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By Mac Cordell 
December 19, 2018
A Marysville man with a history of violence against his wife has been indicted for allegedly hitting her again and this time endangering their son as well. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Oti...
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By Mac Cordell 
December 18, 2018
Plain City officials are planning to look at the way they prepare budgets for the village. At Plain City Village Council’s meeting Monday night, the group tabled a pair of motions that would move reve...
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By Sherryl Sheets of the Richwood Gazette 
December 18, 2018
North Union Superintendent Rich Baird announced Monday night that he had just received word from the Ohio Board of Education that the district had received an Ohio Momentum Award. Seventy other school...
City to connect parks, trails
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By Will Channell 
December 18, 2018
Monday’s meeting was the last one for councilperson Tracy Richardson, who was elected this year to be the new Ohio District 86 State Representative. She was given a commendation from Mayor J.R. Rausch...
Fairbanks to fix roof at middle school
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 18, 2018
The Fairbanks School District is preparing to fix its leaky middle school roof. At a meeting Monday night, the Fairbanks board of education approved a bid from Alumni Roofing for $482,785 to remove an...
About 2,800  impacted by power outage
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By From JT Staff Reports 
December 17, 2018
Many Marysville residents were briefly without power Sunday afternoon after a Dayton Power & Light (DP&L) equipment failure. According to DP&L Director of Corporate Communications Mary Ann Kabel, the ...
Training facility for K9s to open at local OSP post
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By Mac Cordell 
December 17, 2018
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is holding an open house today to show off a new training facility. The highway patrol is opening a training academy for police dogs that will be used by the patrol as we...
Signs of the season
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By Will Channell 
December 17, 2018
The holiday season was on full display in Marysville on Saturday with the Merry on Main and Shop with a Cop events. Merry on Main featured the opening of the City of Marysville skating rink at Partner...
38 Special to perform at Balloon Fest
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 17, 2018
The All Ohio Balloon Fest will have 38 Special as the headline entertainment for Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, and will take the stage at 8 p.m., with Dan Orr opening at 5 p.m. 38 Special’s website lists it...
Prosecutor’s office donates shields to local schools
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By Will Channell 
December 14, 2018
Marysville Assistant Superintendent Jon Langhals, left, and St. John’s Lutheran School Principal Richard Rausch hold ballistic shields handed out to school districts by the Union County Prosecutor’s O...
Stadium project back out      for bids
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 14, 2018
The Marysville high school stadium project is back out to bid after some tweaking. At a school board meeting Thursday night, Assistant Superintendent Jonathan Langhals said revisions were made to the ...
Nationwide bomb hoax felt locally
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By Mac Cordell 
December 14, 2018
A preschool and day care at the United Methodist Church, 207 S. Court St., was evacuated Thursday. The church received a bomb threat, sent by e-mail. The building was evacuated while police searched i...
Christmas spirit
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By From JT Staff Reports 
December 13, 2018
Above is a reader-submitted photo of a home at 304 Taylor Avenue decked out with Christmas decorations. Readers who want to submit a holiday photo can do so at www.marysvillejt.com. Those photos could...
Crash could have been much worse
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 13, 2018
A Hyundai Sonata narrowly avoided crashing into a Toyota RAV4 on U.S. 36 at around 9:20 a.m. today, but lost its bumper in the process. Both the RAV4 and the Sonata were traveling toward Marysville on...
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 13, 2018
The Union County Health Department (UCHD) is closer to finalizing its 2019 budget. At a special budget meeting recently, the board of health approved the final version of the budget. Next week, it’ll ...
Marysville FFA hosts leadership lock-in
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By From JT Staff Reports 
December 12, 2018
Marysville High School students attended an FFA lock in Oct. 18. Above, students learned teamwork and leadership skills with their peers. Pictured are, left to right, Hayden Davis, Kayla Thomas, Caleb...
Ag science classes compete in Landscape Olympics
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By From JT Staff Reports 
December 12, 2018
Pictured from left to right, are students from Marysville High School’s ag science class, Rachelle Wolford, Maria Kessler, Tyler Yates, Ashton Ropp, Mitch Weinbrecht, Nate Heinz, Blake Kessler, Grant ...
N. Lewisburg Council Oks      2019 budget
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By Chad Williamson 
December 12, 2018
The Village of North Lewisburg has made great financial strides in the last decade. According to administrator Andy Yoder, the village struggled “keep the lights on” during the Great Recession years f...
Jon Alder experiencing shortage of bus drivers
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By Jacob Runnels 
December 12, 2018
Pictured are Jonathan Alder High School student Cameron Skidmore, left, with Canaan Middle School Principal Matt Keller, right. Skidmore recently finished his Eagle Scout project, which involved const...
Spreading dance around the world
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By Will Channell 
December 12, 2018
Northwoods Elementary student Aubrey Miller, 9, sits surrounded by the more than 100 dance outfits she collected to donate to children in need. The costumes are first going to Traveling Tutus, an orga...
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By Sherryl Sheets of the Richwood Gazette 
December 11, 2018
Nancy Tobe, an engineer with Access Engineering, approached Richwood Village Council at its Monday night meeting seeking multiple revocable use permits ahead of the Franklin Street Enhancement project...
Inattention blamed for crash
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By Mac Cordell 
December 11, 2018
Route 736 was closed this morning following a single vehicle crash. According to reports, at about 5:28 a.m., Jonj S. Sin, 53, of Marysville, was driving a 2011 Honda CRV, south on Route 736. Accordin...