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Union County Coroner’s Office Investigator Lance Emberling points to a board the coroner’s staff uses to keep track of investigations. (Journal-Tribune photo by Will Channell) –––– Officials have a ti...

A pair of Spectrum workers repair a cable line on Vine Street Friday afternoon. One worker said the work was needed after minor problems were found with a local cable tap. (Journal-Tribune photo by Wi...

Marysville High School Principal Thomas Cochran highlighted the school’s attention to graduation pathways and individualized learning at Thursday night’s school board meeting. Cochran’s presentation w...

The Triad Local School District is facing a new problem to go alongside smoking: vaping. Triad High School principal Kyle Huffman told the school board Thursday night about trouble with “vaping” he’s ...

United Way of Union County Campaign Committee members, from left to right, Evan Smith, Stephanie McKinnon and Andy Britt help mark 75 percent toward the non-profit’s $1,000,060 goal for the 2018-19 an...

Members of the Delaware Harley Riders will host a “Sleigh Bell Ride” benefit Saturday, Nov. 17 at Lucky’s Grille. According to a letter written by event co-organizer Michael Holden, money raised at th...

Union County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a vehicle crash on Watkins Road near Bell Road today at about 7:30 a.m. that involved a car running off the road into a field. It’s unknown at this ...

Plain City officials are rethinking how and when they want to make improvements at Pastime Park. For years, village officials have said the park needs improvements. Until this year, the focus was reno...

It’s back to the drawing board for Marysville School District’s high school stadium project. At Thursday night’s board of education meeting, district treasurer Todd Johnson reported to board members t...

Officials in the Northwest U.S. 33 corridor are looking to brand the region as a testing ground for future technology. Earlier this year, the NW 33 Innovation Corridor Council of Governments (COG), wh...

Milford Center’s village council tried to make a decision on how it was going to annex a property on Reed Street at a meeting earlier this week. The draft resolution to connect water and sewer service...

The Union County Health Department (UCHD) is preparing to review its budget for 2019. The budget was originally finalized in March. Since the renewal levy was recently approved and considerations for ...

A convenience previously reserved only for rule breakers will now be extended to law-abiding residents of North Lewisburg. At Tuesday night’s village council meeting it was noted that residents seekin...

Big Darby Creek in Milford Center is home to a log jam, which has village officials looking for state funding to help clear the mess. At Monday night’s meeting, Village Councilperson Jeff Parren propo...

The above map, presented at Tuesday’s Marysville City Council meeting, shows easements to be reacquired by the City of Marysville from the State of Ohio. The green easement along Collins Avenue will c...

Jonathan Alder’s school board met in Plain City Elementary School’s auditorium Monday night, and were greeted to a room packed with parents and students ready to give presentations and performances. T...

ODOT is proposing improvements to U.S. 42 IN Jerome Township. The plan includes widening and adding turn lanes at the intersection with Industrial Parkway, adding turn lane onto and off of U.S. 33. Ad...

The annual Union County Voice From the Stone ceremony was held Sunday afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church at Court and Fifth streets and finished across the street in front of the courthouse. S...

The parents of a Triad Middle School student who killed herself have sued the district. Bethany Thompson’s parents filed a federal lawsuit last month. Thompson, then 11 years old, committed suicide in...

Autumn had a chilly feel this morning in Union County as a coating of snow covered the community. Above, left, crews at the City of Marysville salt barn on North Maple Street prepare to treat streets....

Dozens gathered in Plain City’s Pastime Park on Wednesday to seal the village’s bicentennial time capsule. Items of cultural and historical significance were placed into the vault. Above, workers from...

Marysville Project Manager Marc Dilsaver shows the Trimble unit device the city uses to rate streets Thursday afternoon. The device has a map of the streets Dilsaver can use to select roads and score ...

A semi hauling a flatbed full of cargo turned over on Hyland-Croy Road near Weldon Road today at about 8:50 a.m. According to a Union County Sheriff’s deputy on the scene, nobody was transported for m...

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan announced his bid for House minority leader Wednesday. Jordan will challenge Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California. “I plan to run for minority leader,” Jordan announced ...

Now that Marysville City Councilperson Tracy Richardson has won the race for Ohio District 86 Representative, there’s just one more question: what will happen to her seat on city council? “We can’t do...

Champaign County deputies responded to a vehicle crash at about 3 p.m. Wednesday on Maple Street in North Lewisburg that involved at least one vehicle and resulted in an entrapment, according to dispa...

Election officials are pleased with Tuesday’s voting process. “It went really well,” said Tina LaRoche, director of the Union County Board of Elections. “I think it went really smoothly.” LaRoche said...

Voters were in a giving mood Tuesday, as only one levy in the county failed. An operating levy in Liberty Township was the only issue in the county defeated by voters. Union County voters showed an ov...

RICHARDSON –––– Marysville resident and current city councilperson Tracy Richardson won Tuesday’s election for representative of Ohio’s 86th district. Richardson, a Republican, defeated Democrat Glenn...

The people have approved a renewal for the Union County Health Department (UCHD). According to unofficial results from the Union County Board of Elections, the department’s 10-year 0.75-mill levy with...