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On Friday at 12:30 p.m., fourth graders at Fairbanks Elementary School used baking soda and vinegar to create “eruptions” in volcanoes they constructed out of papier mâché and water bottles. School of...

Union County officials have finalized a contract with local dispatchers and hope to be coming close to an agreement with deputies and sergeants.

BRADY  TAYLOR AND BRANDON TAYLOR –––– Two men were taken to the hospital and two men are in jail after an alleged assault behind an uptown bar early Sunday morning.

Tyler Spence of American Broadband Services is shown operating a Ditch Witch J-20 to bore conduit under the ground on the north side of West Fourth Street Friday afternoon. The fiber-optic cable being...

Braden Cross of Marysville prepares for a toss on the disc golf course at Mill Valley South park Friday afternoon. Unseasonably warm temperatures Friday allowed local residents to make use of basketba...

Members of the Columbus Bomb Squad were briefly in Marysville Friday to handle what turned out to be a false alarm. According to local authorities, an auctioneer going through the vacant home at 230 E...

LITTLEFIELD –––– Is alleged to have  bilked Holiday Inn out of more than $150K The man who stole more than $155,000 from a local motel will spend eight years in prison.

Union County has become Ohio’s fastest growing county. Several new housing subdivisions are planned for the county and other subdivisions, including the Mill Valley housing development, pictured above...

Reader Peggy Edwards was recently selected as the winner of the Journal-Tribune’s Count the Shamrocks competition.

Last year, developers wanting to build in Marysville got a new option for where to put sewer lines.

A Marysville man is in the hospital, the result of his participation in what local law enforcement officials are calling an early morning home invasion.

AMERINE –––– The Board of Directors of UCO Industries, Inc. has announced Dave Amerine has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of UCO.

At 1:23 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. 33 southbound near the Scottslawn Road overpass, a 2016 Acura TLX drove off the left side of road, overcorrected, and struck a 2015 Buick Verano, driven by Alima Miller ...

KAPRALY –––– Editor’s note: The following information is supplied by Memorial Health. ––– Memorial Family Medicine-Richwood will open in late May, with two physicians who are well known to area patien...

With this being the first week of spring, flowers like these on Creekview Drive Tuesday, are popping up and bringing color around Union County. Today’s colder temperatures are expected to projected to...

Pictured above, Friends of the Library visiting author Lorle Porter,  left, is shown with Friends of the Library Board Member Ann Whitmer at Tuesday night’s program at Veteran’s Auditorium. (Photo sub...

A local woman has pleaded guilty to helping steal more than $20,000 from taxpayers.

Habitat for Humanity is looking to add a few more residences for those in need in Union County.

At around 2:32 p.m. Monday on Scottslawn Road, a traffic crash damaged an electrical pole. OSP troopers, sheriff’s deputies and units from the Marysville Fire responded to the 15000 block of Scottslaw...

Deputies and units from the Northern Union County Fire and EMS District responded to the 15000 block of Route 47 for an injury crash involving a 2012 Kenworth dump truck that lost control Monday at 12...

In a meeting on Monday, the Fairbanks Board of Education talked about the possibility of opening up drug testing to all students in extracurricular activities.

The North Union Board of Education held its monthly meeting Monday evening at the Tri-Rivers Career Center in Marion.

Union County Auditor Andrea Weaver was in Jerome Township to speak with the trustees in the area that has seen the largest growth.

Pictured is the Union County Engineer’s salt barn off County Home Road. According to both Marysville and Union County officials, salt usage has been low this year due to a relatively mild winter. Both...

The Union County Engineer has issued his 2016 annual report.

Marysville Police quickly debunked a threat made over social media toward Bunsold Middle School late last week.

Run in with off-duty officer leads to charges for shoplifters A Marysville Police Officer’s trip to a hardware store could result in a trip to prison for a Columbus couple.

Edgewood Elementary kindergarten students Norman and Lily use shapes as part of a math unit in Ali Bayliss’ class Friday morning. School officials would not provide the last names of the two students....

At least one person was injured in a two-car crash Friday at about 3 p.m. at the intersection of routes 4 and 37 in Pharisburg. According to law enforcement officers at the scene, Charity Lewis, the d...

Bunsold Middle School Eighth Grader Ally Collier is shown speaking to the Marysville School Board at Thursday’s meeting. Collier is part of Daniel Sakamoto’s social studies class. The class looked at ...