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TAYLOR –––– Nevin Taylor, a member of Marysville Elks Lodge No. 1130, will be installed as President of the Ohio Elks Association on Saturday, April 28. It will be the culmination of an eight-year jou...

The Union County Health Department’s (UCHD) newest update in its remodeling project has sent the bids back to the drawing board. At the UCHD’s board of health meeting Wednesday morning, it was shown t...

Liberty Township Fire received mutual aid from “just about every department in the county” to fight a blaze on Raymond Road today, according to Liberty Township Fire Chief Lloyd Segner. According to S...

Flowers at the park at the intersection of Fourth and Main streets droop under the weight of snow this morning. According to the National Weather Service, the weather is set to shift even more today, ...

A Columbus man and woman are facing felony charges in Union County in connection with a series of retail thefts. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Erika Ann Fowler, 34, and Terry Rose, 38, each...

While residents on West Fifth Street are being treated to new sidewalks this year, Marysville officials are looking at East Fifth Street and Elwood Avenue for next year. Officials presented the city’s...

Barbara Bush, center, is shown speaking at to the alumni association at the Marysville High School in 1987. She also visited her grandparents’ graves in Oakdale Cemetery during the visit. (Photo submi...

The Fairbanks School District is interested in purchasing propane-powered school buses for the 2018-2019 school year. At its board of education meeting Monday night, the council approved the acceptanc...

The Marysville School District has named its Good Apple Award winners for the 2017-2018 school year. Winners were honored by the district board of education at a recent reception. Award winners pictur...

Former Jerome Township Trustee Andy Thomas was at Monday’s meeting to discuss the future of development along Route 161. “You don’t want to give that ground away,” Thomas told the trustees. The former...

Union County will be 200 years old in 2020 and the Union County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) and the Union County Milestone Committee are looking for ideas on how to celebrate this milestone e...

Tony L. Beverly, right, has been charged with misdemeanor counts of impersonating a fire fighter and misconduct at an emergency. This picture was taken at a crash April 12, in Marysville. Beverly arri...

Plain City is making some changes to the way village council does business. In the past, most legislation gets read publically at three consecutive meetings. Village council members have voted on legi...

The Marysville Police Department is warning people of a possible phone scam targeting the elderly. In an email sent Friday from Marysville Police Detective Dennis Flanagan, a caller who calls himself ...

Adam Hicks, of Marysville, has spent his life playing the good guy as a cop in Columbus, and recently found his passion as an actor, which he has mostly played cops in big movies. Now, thanks to his t...

Above, first responders tend to a minivan which drove off Damascus Road Friday and struck two houses. At left are the remains of mailboxes, light posts, curbs, yards, and even a water main that were a...

LANE –––– The local murder trial, which should have been wrapping up Friday, has been continued. Todd Michael Lane, 44, of 627 E. Fourth St., is charged with one count of murder as well as one count e...

The Union County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will talk about research in newspapers in meeting room B of the Marysville Public Library at 10 a.m. April 21. The guest speaker for this meet...

Pictured above is Bayleigh Miller, a ninth grader at Fairbanks High School, getting the attention of her cow, Cory, on Thursday. She, along with other high school FFA and ag students, helped set up a ...

When the rear tire came off a U.S. mail truck, it caused a two-vehicle crash, stopping traffic on Maple Street Thursday. According to a police report, about 11:07 a.m. Thursday, Mary Rausch was drivin...

Kate and Dave D’Agati, of Marysville, help their daughters sign their names on the framing of walls for their new home at the Habitat for Humanity of Ohio Statehouse Build event April 11. The event ce...

Despite chilly temperatures, officials from Marysville’s Police and Fire departments practiced their diving skills at the Marysville Upground Reservoir this morning. These training sessions were initi...

Plain City is moving forward with the purchase of land to house a new village hall and police station. At this week’s meeting, village council approved the purchase of a 3.14-acre property on Village ...

Marysville High School officials were alerted to a possible weapon at the school Wednesday that turned out to be plastic. According to an email sent to parents Wednesday by high School principal Tom C...

Above is a rendering of the proposed Jerome Grand at Jacquemin Farms. (Graphic submitted) ---- Two days of negotiations and a $200,000 payment to the Union County General Fund, have moved the Union Co...

North Lewisburg’s village council was flooded with complaints of waterlogged houses and yards at Tuesday night’s meeting. Residents living near Curtis and Dooley drives expressed concerns to the villa...

New renderings of the proposed Marysville stadium renovation project were displayed at an event at the high school fieldhouse Tuesday night. Pictured above is a rendering of the high school stadium cr...

Against recommendation of the county prosecutor, engineer and administrator, the Union County Commissioners have refused to accept a negotiated infrastructure agreement for the Jacquemin Farms Develop...

Pictured is Milford Center solicitor Alison Boggs, swearing-in Dan Johnson, the village’s newest council member, at Monday night’s meeting. After visiting the council at March’s meeting, he expressed ...

Richwood Council voted unanimously at Monday night’s regular meeting to purchase a new street roller for the village. Village Administrator Monte Asher had received bids for several types of street ro...