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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 21, 2018
Residents woke up to a blanket of white this morning as snow covered Union County and much of Central Ohio. About 6 a.m., Union County Sheriff Jamie Patton declared a Level One snow emergency for the ...
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By Jacob Runnels 
March 21, 2018
Residents gathered in the Taylor Township town hall garage Tuesday evening to hear why an intersection light was removed. Shawn Rosterfor, of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), met with Tay...
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By Sherryl Sheets of the Richwood Gazette 
March 20, 2018
North Union Superintendent Rich Baird reported on many high school celebrations since the beginning of the school year at Monday night’s regular board meeting. Student athletes, coaches and teams wher...
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 20, 2018
Crews from the city work Monday morning to install drain tiles at Legion Park in Marysville. The work is part of a larger project to reconstruct West Fifth Street. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behr...
Pursuit passes through Marysville
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 20, 2018
Marysville was just one stop on a stolen vehicle chase that began in Delaware and ended in Springfield Monday morning. According to Sgt. Ty Skaggs of the Delaware Ohio State Highway Patrol post, at ab...
Jerome addresses fire department staffing
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By Mac Cordell 
March 20, 2018
Jerome Township is adding new employees and improving the human resources process. At it’s meeting Monday, the Jerome Township board of trustees addressed the fire department’s need to increase part-t...
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By Jacob Runnels 
March 20, 2018
According to the Marysville Division of Police, the intersection of East Fifth and Poplar streets was completely blocked off due to an injury car crash involving a beige Chrysler PT Cruiser and a silv...
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 19, 2018
A short pursuit on U.S. 36 ended in Union County Deputies using a stun gun on a Kenton Woman Sunday evening. At about 6:30 p.m. deputies stopped Abby L. Small, 27, on U.S. 33 at U.S. 36 for lack of a ...
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 19, 2018
The Union County Emergency Management Agency (EMA), the Union County Sheriff’s Office and City Of Marysville will participate in Wednesday’s statewide tornado drill. Sirens will be activated at 9:50 a...
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By Will Channell 
March 19, 2018
Acie Burleson carries stands with a cross over his shoulder on West Fifth Street Friday morning. He carried the cross down Fifth Street as a “walking monument” to God. He said God asked him to be a “w...
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By Mac Cordell 
March 19, 2018
Union County is in line to receive $1.5 million to create what officials are calling the Automotive and Mobility Innovation Center (AMIC). The Union County Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) requ...
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By Chad Williamson 
March 16, 2018
After four years, Marysville school officials felt they had a pretty good handle on estimating how many outgoing eighth graders would enroll at the Early College High School (ECHS). Since the building...
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By Will Channell 
March 16, 2018
Residents that have been considering a home improvement project might have a reason to pull the trigger soon. City officials spoke to the Marysville Finance Committee on Thursday about a counterpart t...
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By Jacob Runnels 
March 16, 2018
The Triad School District is looking into getting solar panels for its schools. At the Triad board of education meeting Thursday night, Superintendent Chris Piper said the district is “starting to exp...
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 16, 2018
Katie Bendo’s first grade class at St. John’s​ Lutheran School recently received flags from the American Legion Post 79 and Voiture 40et8​. Class members received flags and a comic book showing the pr...
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By Mac Cordell 
March 15, 2018
Officials from Plain City and the City of Columbus are asking the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to allow Columbus to expand water and sewer services to the Plain City and to area surrounding th...
Police probe alleged threat by student
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By Will Channell 
March 15, 2018
The Marysville Division of Police investigated an incident at Marysville High School (MHS) that involved a student allegedly making threatening statements and gestures. According to Deputy Chief Tony ...
North Lewisburg 2018 budget approved
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By Jacob Runnels 
March 14, 2018
North Lewisburg’s 2018 budget has been finalized and approved. Village council members approved the revised budget at Tuesday night’s meeting. The budget shows the 2018 estimated revenue is $1.12 mill...
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By Will Channell 
March 14, 2018
Pictured is a preliminary rendering of a new United Dairy Farmers building to be shown at the March 19 Marysville Board of Zoning Appeals meeting at city hall. The building is planned to replace the c...
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By Chad Williamson 
March 14, 2018
The groundbreaking ceremony for Memorial Health’s $50-million hospital expansion project brought dignitaries, donors and employees to a large tent on the northeast portion of the campus Tuesday. The e...
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By Will Channell 
March 13, 2018
Part of U.S. 33 will be getting a facelift this year. In her public service update, councilperson Tracy Richardson briefly told the rest of Marysville City Council Monday night about an Ohio Departmen...
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By Jacob Runnels 
March 13, 2018
Hitching post and nighttime parking prohibition ordinances in the Village of Milford Center are getting some spring cleaning. At its meeting Monday, the village council was asked by Kaye Phelps whethe...
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By Sherryl Sheets of the Richwood Gazette 
March 13, 2018
The water has been high at Richwood Lake and council has finally found the drain that has been a well kept secret. When the village receives several inches of rain, the lake floods out of its banks an...
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By Mac Cordell 
March 13, 2018
Plain City’s newest police officer, Andor, greets village council members, from left, Jody Carney, John Rucker and Kerri Ferguson. At Monday’s council meeting, Police Chief Dale McKee introduced the n...
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By Mac Cordell 
March 12, 2018
As predicted by law enforcement last year, Union County is seeing an increase in meth use and indictments stemming from it. “We are starting to see a lot more meth,” Union County Prosecutor David Phil...
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By Will Channell 
March 12, 2018
Marysville City Council held its annual planning retreat recently and spent much of the time discussing internal operations rather than external community growth. Council and administrative staff came...
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By Jacob Runnels 
March 12, 2018
Pictured is Jim Barnette, an aquatic consultant with Spear Corporation, hauling off the Marysville Municipal Pool’s Wave 300 vacuum cleaner robot Friday afternoon. The vacuum gets sent in to Spear Cor...
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 12, 2018
CHANDLER PAUK –––– Chandler Pauk, 17, recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. His eagle scout project included leading a team of scouts to refurbish a 30-foot bridge in one of the Marysville City P...
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By From JT Staff Reports 
March 12, 2018
According to a press release, on Friday at 10:05 a.m. detectives from the Multi-Agency Drug Enforcement (M.A.D.E.) Task Force, deputies with the Union County Sheriff’s Office and officers from the Mar...