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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...

SCHMENK –––– Union County will have its first female commissioner. Voters have selected Christiane Schmenk as Union County Commissioner. According to unofficial results from the Union County Board of ...

The Rosen family learned the value of voting at the Union County Services Center Tuesday afternoon. Tabitha, right, decided to show her daughters, Willow, left, and Linden, center, how she exercises h...

Voters have decided to approve to levy issues for the Marysville School District. According to an unofficial summary report by the Union County Board of Elections, the district’s 6.56-mill continuing ...

Amelia Lively, seated, has been an Election Day poll worker for four years. She said she got started as a way to earn money and get excused from school. Now she loves the job and commutes from college...

The entry by Dale and Margaret Davisson was selected as the winner of the Journal-Tribune’s Count the Jack-O-Lanterns contest in the Oct. 31 edition of the newspaper. The entry correctly identified 58...

A group of landowners and residents were at Monday evening’s Jerome Township meeting to discuss future and current development. Resident Jeanette Harington asked the trustees how long it would take to...

The City of Marysville is gearing up for its bicentennial celebration next year. Marysville City Council officials reviewed the event’s budget at their work session Monday night. “I wanted to make sur...

The Marysville Marching Band is shown above competing in the Ohio Music Education Association State Finals at Dayton Welcome Stadium Sunday night. The local band earned a superior rating, the highest ...

An injury crash stalled traffic on Route 4, near Collins Avenue, at 7:41 a.m. Monday. The crash involved a 2013 Honda Civic that struck the back of a 2000 Chevrolet Express van. No one was transported...

A Leesburg Township woman could be facing more than eight years in prison after allegedly attacking her mother. A Union County Grand Jury has indicted Michelle Nicole Klein, 32, of 28 W. Magnetic St.,...

A pumpkin splashes into a barrel at Sunday afternoon’s City of Marysville Pumpkin Drop at the Decker Fire Station on County Home Road. Residents were free to bring their own pumpkins for firefighters ...

Flurrie the Boston terrier, left, and Dusty the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel play at the Marysville Bark Park Friday afternoon. Carla and Ken Stevens own the pair. Pet owners will have some more chan...

Editor’s note: This is another installment in a monthly series of stories leading up to Marysville’s 200th birthday in August. Each story asks residents what makes Marysville special to them. ––– John...

The presence of a rare disease that nearly paralyzes children has been confirmed in Ohio and the Union County Health Department (UCHD) is taking steps to prepare for it, should it ever reach the count...

Fairbanks High School Football Coach Pat Cotter, center, talks to his players following Friday night’s 34-14 loss to the Fort Frye Cadets in the opening round of the playoffs. For a full game story fr...

The Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee has finalized its plans for the upcoming Veterans Day Ceremony at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Veterans Plaza on the Court House Lawn, at the corner ...

Deputies and units from the Liberty Township Fire Department responded to the 21000 block of Route 347 for a property damage crash involving a 2015 Freightliner semi that struck low hanging utility wi...

A Columbus man has been charged after allegedly breaking into a Darby Township business and running from the police. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Corey Richard Miller, 24, of Columbus, cha...

A vehicle crash at Route 4 near Scott Farms Boulevard at around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday halted traffic both ways for a time. The crash resulted in a light pole being knocked down into the street. Marysvil...