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The Union County Health Department’s (UCHD) board of health approved a resolution to renew one of its levies with an increase at Wednesday morning’s meeting. The UCHD had three options for its 0.75-mi...

Editor’s note: The Journal-Tribune wants to celebrate the success of local high school students from the community and tell their story. As the students graduate from high school, there are always a f...

Fairbanks High School (FHS) is the 46th best high school in Ohio and the 1,294th best in America for 2018, according to U.S. News. U.S. News analyzed 822 high schools in Ohio and 20,500 high schools, ...

Ohio Representative Dorothy Pelanda visited the Habitat for Humanity work site of a new home for the local D’Agati family in Marysville May 10. She joined the other workers in a prayer session held ar...

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers took part in a pursuit that ended in a crash in Plain City Monday at 9:36 a.m. A trooper attempted to stop a vehicle for a registration violation on U.S. 33 near mil...

Parker Kuzma, pictured above in the office of Marysville High School, is a soon-to-be graduate of the school. He has achieved great success in his school career, complete with a pair of 36 scores on A...

A stolen gun has led to indictments against a man and local woman. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Brittney Nicole Lemaster and Gregory A Clark. Lemaster, 27, of 723 S. Walnut St., is charged...

Executive Vice President of Honda of America Tom Shoupe speaks to assembled associates at Tuesday’s ceremony at the East Liberty Auto Plant celebrating the first 2019 Acura RDX to roll off the line. T...

Richwood Village Council members approved a deal to obtain a newer bucket truck for the village. The current village bucket truck, a 1989 Ford, is in need of numerous repairs, which is not considered ...

The colors of spring are in full bloom, as this picture in the Timberview housing development shows. Rain forecast for this week should help area lawns, flowers and trees reach their full potential. (...

The Village of Milford Center has a plan for how to collect on delinquent water bills. As an update to village council at Monday night’s meeting, village administrator Chris Kise said the problem of c...

Residents and village officials are expressing frustration over a fundraising campaign to rebuild Bicentennial Park in Plain City. The park, which as built in 1976, is surrounded by Main, South Chilli...

Marysville Mayor J.R. Rausch reads a proclamation at Monday night’s city council meeting declaring with week Police Week. Standing next to him, from left, are Marysville Police Chief Floyd Golden, Sgt...

The Union County Emergency Management Agency is moving from its current storage facility at 445 North Maple St. to a pair of buildings at 20900 Northwest Parkway, the former Segner Construction and ad...

What started as a routine traffic stop, stopped more than three pounds of marijuana from coming into Marysville and ended in an indictment for a Columbus man. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted ...

A mother Robin sits atop of her nest while her babies’ peek out from underneath as they take in the warm weather. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon)

Charlotte Byers, of Ostrander, recently received the Outstanding Prospective Teacher Award from Grace College’s school of education in Winona Lake, Indiana. She is a senior at Grace College and is a s...

Jerome Township officials have hired the former zoning inspector to review a pair of proposed new neighborhoods. At a recent meeting, the Jerome Township trustees appropriated $7,000 for G2 Consulting...

Rylan Moody, 4, of Route 161, takes a chunk out of the ground with the playground shovel at Lewis Memorial Park Friday afternoon. With the last days of school approaching and warm weather arriving, pe...

Pictured are Marysville High School students, who are a part of the school’s help desk course, working to repair a desktop computer. The course is designed to teach students how to fix electronics aro...

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, power lines were brought down on White Stone Road, between Kaiser and Lowe roads, after a 2003 Honda Civic, driven by Michael Hamilton, 36, of Marysville, s...

Local law enforcement agencies hosted the In the Line of Duty ceremony on the Union County Courthouse lawn Thursday evening. Pictured is Richwood Police Chief Monte Asher speaking to the assembled cro...

In the past, cell phones in schools were seen as a distraction to the educational environment. Now, they have a new purpose. Jonathan Langhals, assistant superintendent for the Marysville Exempted Vil...

Bridget Sanders, of Marysville, watches her children Owen Pyles, 5, left, and Myan Pyles, 3, play on the banks of Mill Creek at Schwartzkopf Park Wednesday afternoon. With the weather getting warmer, ...

North Lewisburg’s Boy Scout Troop #87 performed the Pledge of Allegiance at the village council meeting Wednesday night. The troop accompanied Cameron Edge, a scout who gave council a proposal to cons...

BEVERLY –––– A local man who allegedly stole turnout gear so he could respond to emergencies and act like a firefighter has been indicted. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Tony L. Beverly, 18,...

Wednesday night Marysville’s design review board approved a Hardee’s restaurant design similar to the one pictured above, which is located in Weaverville, North Carolina. The original design had a red...

On Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.m. a Swing Into Spring jazz concert will be held at the Union County Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Columbus swing band In Full Swing will perform along ...

While Marysville attorney Leah Sellers received more than 400 votes in Union County, ballots cast for her did not count. Last month, Sellers pulled out of the race for Ohio’s 4th Congressional Distric...

RICHARDSON –––– When talking about her bid for the Republican candidacy for the Ohio House last week, Tracy Richardson said she wanted to be someone people trust. The results of this week’s election s...