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Shown above, a United Way volunteer helps direct traffic at the 2016 All Ohio Balloon Fest. The 2017 Balloon Fest will be held Aug. 10-12. Tickets to the Thursday night Clint Black performance are ava...

According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, at around 7:51 a.m. Monday, a 2004 BMW 325i, driven by Tyler T. Perry, 18, of Marysville, drove off Route 38 and struck a ditch. The car hit a fence and...

County and city officials held the groundbreaking for the interior road of the future Marysville Innovation Park on Industrial Parkway Monday afternoon. Pictured above, from left to right, are Marysvi...

Plain City officials are recommending the village contract with Columbus for water and sewer services. For nearly a year village officials have been exploring options for water and sewer service in th...

New guidelines for the state of the city address and council salary changes were two significant city charter alterations recommended to Marysville City Council. Chris Schmenk, chair of the charter re...

A sexual assault was reported in the camping area of the Union County Fairgrounds early Monday morning. According to Union County Sheriff Jamie Patton, the alleged incident, involving a 19-year-female...

SPARKS –––– The operator and co-owner of a former Marysville business has pleaded guilty to a series of charges stemming from that business. Dwayne Edward Sparks, 53, of 301 Scott Farms Boulevard, Mar...

Economic development officials say they are busy. Stanford told the commissioners that the most recent numbers showed Union County with an unemployment rate at 3.4 percent. “That is the second lowest ...

Dan Stowell, of Patrick Brush Run Road, sprays a fake house with a fire hose the Marysville Fire Department set up for residents at Saturday’s Day in the Park event. Musical artists played and booths ...

Pictured above, children on the Union County Republican Party’s float throw candy to crowds along Main Street at Sunday’s Union County Fair parade. The 2017 fair opened Sunday and will run through Sat...

Clinton, Franklin county events impacted by influenza earlier this month Officials with the Union County Fair are taking recent incidents around Ohio very seriously. Earlier this month, Ohio Departmen...

Members of the Union Township Fire Department, along with crews from Marysville, responded to a reported house fire at 64 Railroad Street in Milford Center Friday at 11:30 a.m. Scanner reports indicat...

Triad is hard at work this summer as it continues to make building improvements across the district. All but seven windows are completed at the elementary and middle schools. Superintendent Chris Pipe...

Pictured above is a rendering of the new designs for the proposed Marysville High School football stadium renovation, which will include a turf playing surface. Among the plans are designs to allow ve...

A much-needed traffic light will cost considerably more than expected, according to City of Marysville officials. Finance Director Justin Nahvi told the city’s finance committee Thursday night that th...

According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, at around 3:18 p.m. Thursday, there was a three-vehicle rollover crash at the intersection of Route 739 and Johnson Road in Raymond. The crash involved ...

A 24-hour period beginning Wednesday saw several crashes throughout Union County. Shown above left is a truck that ran off the side of the road and flipped over before coming to stop at 12:33 p.m. on ...

On Wednesday morning, the Union County Health Department (UCHD) adopted a resolution to force residents in Raymond and Peoria to abandon their private septic systems and start using a public system. T...

Oliver Fox, 7 of Marysville cools off on a slip-n-slide earlier this week at a residence on Seventh Street. Temperatures have climbed into the 90s the past two days but forecasters predict four days o...

An alley between State and Center streets in Milford Center was closed Tuesday afternoon after a portion of a tree fell across the roadway. Officials from the Union County Sheriff’s Office did not pro...

Workers from Durable Slate stand high above the ground Tuesday afternoon, inspecting the roof of the First United Methodist Church at the corner of Sixth and Court streets. The church’s business admin...

Pooling together Marysville’s Dayton Power & Light customers might happen one day, but officials don’t believe now is the time. “It’s not something we’ll ever totally turn our backs to,” said City Man...

Union County Auditor Andrea Weaver said her office has already started gathering evidence for the six-year revaluation set for 2019. Weaver said photographers working for her office will be going to p...

The Fairbanks Board of Education has announced Fairbanks Middle and High School building will receive its new public address (PA) system in August. As part of Monday’s board of education meeting, Supe...

City workers are shown above as they dig along a portion of West Eighth Street to replace aging cast iron waterlines Tuesday morning. The work is part of the city’s larger waterline replacement progra...

Jerome Township resident Barry Adler was at Monday night’s trustee meeting, asking the board to be more responsible with public money and more responsive to the public. Adler said he is “especially co...

The North Union Board of Education heard a presentation by Union County Sheriff Jamie Patton and North Union School Superintendent Rich Baird regarding the need for a school resource officer in the sc...

An accident Friday at 11:43 a.m. snarled traffic at the intersection of Coleman’s Crossing Boulevard and Delaware Avenue. According to the Marysville Police Department report of the crash, a white 200...

Man faces felony charge for incident at BMV A Richwood man was charged on July 4 for driving drunk, but it is what he allegedly did the next day that could land him in prison for years. Michael J. Nib...

Nick Ambrozich, left, and Madeleine Wright, both of the Central Ohio YMCA, dust off some hard-to-reach places at the Union County YMCA Friday afternoon. The YMCA had a “deep cleaning” day Friday and w...