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The 11th Annual Covered Bridge Bluegrass Festival will take place this weekend. The festival, set for Friday-Sunday, showcases the historic Pottersburg Bridge, one of Union County’s 19th century cover...

Students at North Union High School voted on their fall homecoming court last week. Pictured front row, left to right, are freshman attendant, Alexis Gabriel, sophomore, Regan Martino, junior, Sarah P...

A Delaware man has been charged with raping a girl he was supposed to be protecting. A Union County Grand Jury has indicted Dwayne Allen Slone, 33, of 370 Eastwood Ave., Delaware. Slone is charged wit...

Pictured is the city’s current water plant, which was first built in the late 1800s, according to historical documentation. The city is planning on replacing it in 2022 with a new plant on Raymond Roa...

On Monday night, the North Union Board of Education witnessed the presentation of the September NUPride Award given to Lisa McKinley. McKinley has been in education teaching for 38 years. She is an in...

Several hundred students participated in the Union County Health Department’s (UCHD) walk to school day this morning. The walk to school to Edgewood Elementary School began at the intersection of Sixt...

Jerome Township officials are talking about commercial and residential growth. At Monday night’s meeting of the board of trustees, officials said they were leery of a company that had showed interest ...

A cyclist was injured after running a stop sign and being hit by a car Monday at 3:57 p.m. at Collins Avenue and Maple Street. According to a preliminary police report, a 2014 Ford was stopped at a st...

The Marysville fire and police departments are looking to bolster their numbers in the coming year. On Monday night, the city’s finance committee heard the initial personnel requests for next year’s b...

Local preservationist Donald Boerger is shown above as he gives a tour recently to Homeschooling in Marysville, a local group of homeschool families. Boerger took the group to various Uptown landmarks...

A member of the Marysville Monarch Diamond Club who volunteered to help with bingo was apparently helping herself to the profits. The Union County grand jury has indicted Andrea N. Stambaugh, 40, of 1...

Ali LeMasters and her brother, Zack, are shown playing at the Partners Park splash pad during this week’s unseasonably high temperatures. The National Weather Service expected a high of 82 today and l...

Triad High School held its fall Homecoming ceremonies Friday evening prior to the Cardinals’ football game against Greenon. Above, Kayleigh Boldman was crowned the 2018 Homecoming queen and Cameron Bo...

A preliminary autopsy for a woman found dead in a freezer last weekend shows signs she was strangled, officials said this Friday. Diane West, 68, of Milstone Drive, was found dead Sept. 8 during a sea...

Every school district in the Union County area was on a two-hour delay this morning due to heavy fog that blanketed the entire county. At right, a reader submitted this photo of an injury crash on Rou...

A pair of Madison County residents was arrested by Union County deputies Thursday after both resisted arrest. According to Union County Chief Deputy Tom Morgan, deputies pulled over Jessica J. Helmuth...

The man who allegedly held law enforcement officials at bay with an ax at Honda has been indicted. Max W. Arnold, 30, of 628 Kenny Lane, Marysville, has been indicted on one count each of inducing pan...

Pete Edwards and Christopher Dillon recently began teaching a class for children with autism on how to express and understand emotions through games and other activities. The program started in May an...

At the end of the Connie Patterson Beautification awards ceremony at Monday’s Marysville City Council meeting, the First Presbyterian Church received an award for maintaining its property and landscap...

After the success of its first meeting, the Union County Falls Coalition is set to host another aging parents event tonight, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Union County Health Department (UCHD). Thr...

Honda officials say the intersection at Fifth and Main streets in Marysville is the ideal location to test its connected vehicle technology. The intersection has already been outfitted with a series o...

As the closest municipality to the event, North Lewisburg Village Council learned about plans for the upcoming Union County Covered Bridge Bluegrass Festival. The festival takes place on, and around t...

For the sake of safety, parking in Milford Center is going to be harder to do once October rolls around. In a village meeting held Monday night, the Milford Center Village Council unanimously voted to...

Magnetic Springs has been awarded $500,000 as part of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Neighborhood Revitalization Grant. More than half of the grant will go toward street improvements, in...

Marysville firefighter Mike Best prepares equipment for the journey south to Raleigh. The City of Marysville is sending four firefighters, including Fire Chief Jay Riley, to help with hurricane relief...

A Richwood driver has been charged following a crash that killed an area teen. Christopher Conrad, 19, of 24660 Route 4, Richwood, has been indicted by the Union County Grand Jury, charged with one co...

During Monday night’s regular council meeting, Richwood Mayor Scott Jerew reported smoke testing of the sewer lines will be performed today. Should rain delay the process, testing will be held on Wedn...

Jonathan Alder School District officials were pleased to report the success of its newest use of monitoring services at a meeting Monday night. Bret Longberry, the district’s director of technology, p...

A group of Plain City businessmen and residents are asking council members to explain their vote on a proposed apartment complex. In August, council rejected an ordinance that would have rezoned 8.8 a...

Elford Development will now be able to start constructing its spec building at Innovation Park on Industrial Parkway. On Monday night, Marysville City Council finally approved an agreement between the...