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JA receives money to help homeless students
News, Plain City
By Michael Williamson 
July 18, 2024
Jonathan Alder is getting an additional chunk of grant money that will go to helping the district’s homeless students. At the July board of education meeting Monday, the group approved a McKinney-Vent...
Harry Wolfe Park to see improvements
News, Plain City
By Kayleen Petrovia 
July 17, 2024
Jerome Township officials are planning improvements to Harry Wolfe Park that they hope will make the park and pond more accessible to all community members. The trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to s...
Franke’s has grown with the city, Honda
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By Michael Williamson 
July 17, 2024
Franke's Wood Products, Inc., on Collins Avenue, has been an award-winning staple in Marysville since 1968. The company is run by Chris Franke, who took over the family business in 2023 after the pass...
Innovation Corridor group to hire executive director
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By Mac Cordell 
July 17, 2024
The Northwest 33 Innovation Corridor Council of Governments (COG) is hiring an executive director. At Wednesday’s special COG meeting, the body voted to hire Doug McCollough as executive director of t...
Art show, demo derby to return to 2024 fair
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By Mac Cordell 
July 16, 2024
Officials and volunteers are getting the Union County Fairgrounds ready for next week’s county fair. Above, Larry Paver helps mulch flower beds on the fairgrounds. Paver is one of dozens of volunteers...
Jefferson Starship member got start in OSU band
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By Michael Williamson 
July 16, 2024
Jefferson Starship’s Dave Freiberg said Ohio holds a special place in his heart. “ I grew up outside Cincinnati and played at Ohio State in the band,” he said. “Coming there is like coming home.” Frei...
NU sees rise in economically disadvantaged students
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By Kyle Meddles 
July 16, 2024
North Union saw a decrease in title funding this past year. At the regular meeting of the school board on Monday, Chief Academic Officer Sandy Richards gave the curriculum report at the meeting , whic...
Woman indicted for pruning shears attack
Court News, News
By Mac Cordell 
July 16, 2024
A York Township woman is in jail after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend with a pair of pruning shears. The Union County Grand jury has indicted Ashleigh Rose Lynn, 26, of 26603 Ford Reed Rd., Richwood...
Commissioners seek grant funding Magnetic Springs sewer project
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By Michael Williamson 
July 16, 2024
Officials are moving forward with the grant application for the Magnetic Springs sewer system project. The Union County Commissioners approved a resolution Wednesday supporting the move after hearing ...
Troupe to perform Camp Delaware today
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By From JT Staff Reports 
July 15, 2024
Community Arts Network, a non-profit performing arts organization based in Delaware, will be holding a production of Camp Delaware The Musical at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 233 W. Sixth St., this w...
BCI takes fresh look at unsolved 1993 Burnside killing
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By Mac Cordell 
July 12, 2024
A local death, unsolved for more than three decades is getting a second look, by a new set of eyes. In June, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office asked the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal I...
Airport board approves new hangar
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By Kyle Meddles 
July 12, 2024
The Union County Airport Authority approved the lease for construction of a privately funded box hangar, the first of its kind at the airport. At the regular meeting on Tuesday, Woolpert Consulting di...
Fairbanks FCCLA members compete in nationals
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By From JT Staff Reports 
July 12, 2024
Pictured above are Emerson Cochran, left, and Caroline Wilson who recently took part in the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in Seattle. (Photo submitted)...
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By Mac Cordell 
July 11, 2024
An agreement with The Silos at Marysville may herald good news for the city’s Christmas Star and other projects in the community. Marysville City Council is in the process of approving an agreement wi...
Harold Lewis preschool funding may be cut if UCBDD levy fails
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By Michael Williamson 
July 11, 2024
Union County Board of Developmental Disabilities has a levy on the ballot this November and if it fails, it could mean a stoppage in funding for the Harold Lewis Center. Board officials are looking at...
Utility woes deal financial blow to North Lewisburg
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By Chad Williamson 
July 10, 2024
The bills for deferred maintenance in North Lewisburg are coming due and the residents might feel the sting. At a Tuesday meeting, village officials discussed a trio of topics that would all result in...
Plain City prepares for first TIF
News, Plain City
By Kayleen Petrovia 
July 10, 2024
Just as Plain City officials approved a policy that will guide when and how they offer economic development incentives, they took a step toward approving the village’s first ever Tax Increment Financi...
Weeks Plumbing – a family business built on opportunity
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By Mac Cordell 
July 10, 2024
Scott Weeks, right, and his wife, Loretta, left, along with their son, Chris, center, own and operate Weeks Plumbing. The local company, which specializes in both new construction pluming and plumbing...
Jerome OKs temporary pot moratorium
News, Plain City
By Kayleen Petrovia 
July 9, 2024
All land uses related to the growth or sale of marijuana will be prohibited in Jerome Township temporarily, although the trustees did not set a definite time limit on the prohibition. At its most rece...
Richwood Opera House may get reprieve
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By Kyle Meddles 
July 9, 2024
Richwood Council is reconsidering its conversation about demolishing the Opera House. At Monday evening’s regular council meeting, concerned locals and members of the Opera House Committee turned up t...
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By Mac Cordell 
July 9, 2024
For a third meeting, a group of local residents was at Marysville’s City Council meeting asking the group to respond to a series of comments member Mark’s Reams wife, and others, have made. This time,...
Abatement approved for Jerome spec building
News, Plain City
By Kayleen Petrovia 
July 8, 2024
Jerome Township and Union County officials approved a tax abatement for a developer planning to build a 24,000-square foot speculative building in the township. Union County/Marysville Economic Develo...
Local woman charged in Indiana stabbing
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By Mac Cordell 
July 5, 2024
A Marysville woman is in jail in Indiana after allegedly stabbing a woman multiple times. Kaya G. Lewis, 20, of 722 Wedgewood Drive, has been charged with one count each of aggravated battery and batt...
JA working through new state law on cell phones
News, Plain City
By Michael Williamson 
July 5, 2024
Following the state legislature’s passage of a new cell phone law for schools, Jonathan Alder is looking at how it will update its own policy to follow state guidelines. The board of education discuss...
Outdoor FX to create flex industrial site in Plain City
News, Plain City
By Kayleen Petrovia 
July 5, 2024
The conceptual plans illustrated above show a proposed design from Como Development and OutdoorFX to create several buildings of flex space for light industrial uses. The road pictured at far left is ...
Agencies encourage sober driving over Fourth
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By From JT Staff Reports 
July 5, 2024
Officials from the Union County Health Department and law enforcement agencies are encouraging community members to stay safe this holiday weekend by driving sober or getting a ride home. "We want to ...
Officials investigate incident of suicide on Palm Drive
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By Mac Cordell 
July 5, 2024
A Marysville woman is dead after taking her own life Tuesday. Elizabeth Kolze, an investigator with the Union County Coroner’s Office, confirmed that a 20-year-old Marysville woman was declared dead a...
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By Mac Cordell 
July 2, 2024
Marysville City Council is once again taking up the idea of inspecting rental homes. At Monday night’s city council work session, Zoning Inspector Zach Andrews presented a plan to inspect rental homes...
J-T staff up for record 13 state AP awards
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By From JT Staff Reports 
July 2, 2024
The staff at the Marysville Journal-Tribune is up for a record-setting 13 honors in the Ohio Associated Press newspaper awards later this month. That number is five more than the newspaper’s previous ...
Connolly family proud to build, live in community
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By Michael Williamson 
July 2, 2024
Connolly Construction, led by second-generation owner, Phillip Connolly, holds a groundbreaking for Green Pastures in the early 1990s. (Photo submitted) -- Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series...