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Memorial collects various honors
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 30, 2024
Reinforcing its reputation as a high-performing healthcare system, Memorial Health has recently achieved several prestigious national awards for patient care, as well as a statewide honor for the grow...
Wings is collection point for sharp instruments
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 30, 2024
Wings Support and Recovery has a new disposal container for sharp medical objects like needles. The organization announced the Safe Sharps Disposal Container will be installed outside the office on So...
Traffic stop leads to cocaine find
Court News, News
By Mac Cordell 
September 28, 2024
A Marion man is facing multiple first-degree felony charges after a traffic stop nets more than 1,000 doses of cocaine. The Union County Grand jury has indicted Deaudrick Joseph Volney, charging him w...
Muscles on Maple
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By Chad Williamson 
September 27, 2024
A young cheerleader flexes her muscles for the crowds watching the Marysville Homcoming parade along Maple Street Wednesday night. For the second year in a row, the parade abandoned its traditional ro...
Ditch project assessment should be lower than anticipated
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By Mike Williamson 
September 26, 2024
Letters are going out soon regarding assessments for the Morris-Beery ditch project and amounts may be lower than anticipated. Union County Engineer Jeff Stauch updated the commissioners on a series o...
Making way for the new Queen
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 26, 2024
Demolition of the former Dairy Queen building, 816 Columbus Ave., began Wednesday and was nearly complete by the end of the day. The restaurant is expected to be closed for several weeks while a new, ...
Former J.A. Elementary coming down
News, Plain City
By Mike Williamson 
September 26, 2024
Demolition began on the former Jonathan Alder Elementary School building on West Main Street this week with the razing of the back portion of the building shown above. While the district hasn’t yet an...
Man charged for attempt to smother woman
Court News, News
By Mac Cordell 
September 25, 2024
A Marysville man could be facing a decade and a half behind bars after allegedly attempting to smother his live-in girlfriend and threatening to kill the members of his household. Steven L. Horch, 56,...
Plain City kicks tires on stormwater maintenance fee
News, Plain City
By Mike Williamson 
September 25, 2024
Plain City officials are considering a stormwater utility fee program to help pay for future improvement projects. Randy VanTilburg, with the consulting firm Mannik and Smith Group, told council at th...
Blunt rebuke
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City poised to ban pot dispensaries despite local support for Issue 2
By Mac Cordell 
September 24, 2024
Marysville City Council is moving forward with legislation to prohibit the sale of recreational marijuana inside the city. At its Monday meeting, council heard the first reading of legislation to amen...
Richwood battles first-floor downtown apartments
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By Kyle Meddles 
September 24, 2024
A member of the public is coming forward with information about the unlawful apartments downtown in the business district. At the regular meeting on Monday, Council President Reddy Brown brought up th...
Marysville development projects updated
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By Mac Cordell 
September 24, 2024
While the impending demolition of Marysville’s Dairy Queen is noticeable to those traveling in the city’s far east side, local officials say the community is in a bit of a development lull. Demolition...
MAiZE celebrates Peanuts
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 24, 2024
The MAiZE at Little Darby Creek celebrates the 75th anniversary of the creator of Charlie Brown with a Snoopy-themed maze. Kicking off fall festivities for the 75th Anniversary of Charles Schulz’ Pean...
Marysville FFA tours locally owned farm in Coshocton
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 24, 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following information was provided by the Marysville FFA program. ––– This month the Marysville FFA took its first trip of the school year, to FFA Camp Muskingum. As part of the tri...
New vote resolves logjam approval error
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By Mike Williamson 
September 20, 2024
The Mill Creek logjam project is still moving forward but not before an error was corrected in the clean-out’s approval process. Two resolutions presented at Wednesday’s Union County Commissioners mee...
Marysville keeps four-star status on State Report Card
Education, News
By Chad Williamson 
September 20, 2024
The Marysville School District maintained the same four-star rating on the state report card this year that it received last year, and according to Superintendent Diane Allen, that is a good thing. “I...
Memorial taps new Jerome location for facility
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 20, 2024
After two years of waiting, Memorial Health is pulling the plug on plans to build at the corner of U.S. 33 and U.S. 42, but that doesn’t mean the health system is giving up on Jerome Township. Memoria...
Jerome FD resources stretched
News, Plain City
By Mike Williamson 
September 19, 2024
As Jerome Township continues to see its population increase, the fire department may need some additional equipment and additional funding to keep up with the changes. During Chief Doug Stewart’s fire...
Man charged after interfering with arrest
Court News, News
By Mac Cordell 
September 19, 2024
A local man could be facing prison time after allegedly threatening deputies that had come to arrest his daughter. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Jay Lynn Barton, 65, of 12095 Watkins Road, ...
Fairbanks raises state report card score
Education, News
By Mike Williamson 
September 18, 2024
State report cards are out and this year shows a higher score for Fairbanks than last year. Superintendent Adham Schirg told the board of education Monday night that the district received a full five ...
U.S. 42/Currier Road project takes shape
News, Plain City
The Jerome Township Trustees approved a zoning amendment Tuesday that opens up a 33-acre piece of land south of U.S. 42 for 10 new single-family lots called Currier Ridge. Where and how the lots will be situated is outlined in white on the map above, shown between Currier Road and the CSX rail-line and near Sugar Run. (Graphic submitted)
By Mike Williamson 
September 18, 2024
A rezoning measure in Jerome Township will pave the way for some additional housing units south of U.S. 42 and a portion of Sugar Run. Township trustees voted 2-0 to rezone 33 acres of land on the wes...
P.C. hopes better permit reviews can trim code issues
News, Plain City
By Mike Williamson 
September 18, 2024
As Plain City’s demand for permit reviews increases, regular code enforcement may decrease. Colin Powers, the village’s zoning specialist, told council during the board’s September work session this m...
A crop of stress
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This farmer on Robinson Road is one of many around Union County, specifically in the southern portion, who have already started pulling crops out of the field. It’s the earliest start to the local harvest season many farmers can remember. A historically dry summer has led to fears about this year’s crop yield. The potentially low production, combined with low crop prices could mean many local farmers will struggle financially. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)
Drought conditions make life difficult on local farmers
By Mac Cordell 
September 17, 2024
Farmers around Union County are bracing for a difficult year. Drought conditions in Ohio, combined with low crop prices have created what Wayne Dellinger with the Ohio State University’s Union County ...
NU program focuses on pupil mental health
Education, News
By Kyle Meddles 
September 17, 2024
The bryt program at North Union Middle School aims to bring resources for student mental health. At the regular meeting of the board on Monday, Halle DuMoulin-Camella, Project AWARE District Program C...
Charges stem from attack with hedge trimmers
Court News, News
By Mac Cordell 
September 16, 2024
A local man accused of attacking a woman and cutting her with hedge trimmers has been indicted. A Union County Grand Jury has indicted Barry Wayne Tucker, 54, of 21800 Route 47, West Mansfield, chargi...
Uptown shooting likely to bring felonies
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Michael McPherson is facing multiple charges after allegedly firing a gun in Marysville’s Uptown. He allegedly showed the gun a while outside Stephens Lounge on Main Street. McPherson was in the passenger seat of a truck. As the truck drove west through the intersection of Main and Fifth streets, McPherson allegedly pointed the gun out the window and fired multiple shots in the direction of those gathered outside the bar. (Photo submitted)
By Mac Cordell 
September 16, 2024
Police are looking at felony charges against the man accused of firing shots in the Marysville Uptown. Michael McPherson, 33, of 1096 Rosewood Drive, was arraigned Monday in Marysville Municipal Court...
Suspect who fired gun uptown in custody
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 16, 2024
A shooting suspect has turned himself in to police. Michael McPherson, 33, of 1096 Rosewood Drive, turned himself into police at about 7:55 a.m., Monday. McPherson is charged with misdemeanor counts o...
Memorial Health names new directors
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By From JT Staff Reports 
September 16, 2024
Memorial Health has announced the appointment of Kelly Johns, BSN, RN, CCM, CRRN, as the organization’s Case Management Director and the appointment of Leigh Anne Germani, MSN, RN, as Emergency Depart...
Extension office offers tips to avoid harvester fires
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Ohio rank fourth in the nation for its number of combine fires, like the one shown above. (Photo submitted)
By From JT Staff Reports 
September 16, 2024
Editor’s note: The following article is supplied by Wayne Dellinger, Union County Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources. He can be reached by email: dellinger.6@osu.edu or by calling 6...
Robinson Road crash injures three
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By Aleksei Pavloff 
September 16, 2024
Three individuals were hospitalized following a one-vehicle crash Thursday. Officials said the driver of a red, 1999 Ford Expedition was driving west in the 17000 block of Robinson Road, about a mile ...