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The Union County Health Department’s (UCHD) board discussed levy options for this November at Wednesday morning’s meeting. The board came to three options, which include replacing, renewing and increa...

Pictured is the playground to be installed sometime this year at Lewis Park. It’s being purchased from Playworld, and will be assembled in house by city employees as a cost saving measure. (Image subm...

The Fairbanks Board of Education met to discuss student intervention approaches at Wednesday night’s meeting. The board met at Tolles Career and Technical Center and held a tour of the facility. After...

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 ...

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...

Pictured is “Blackie’s Gang,” a United States Air Force squadron that went on rescue missions to save downed pilots during World War II, showing success on 95 percent of its missions. John “Blackie” P...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...