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The Jonathan Alder Board of Education has a couple of months to review Plain City’s planned Economic Development Incentive Policy (EDIP) before the plan is put in place. Jason Stanford, the village’s ...

This week is Sunshine Law Week in Ohio. “Obviously in our democracy one of the fundamental tenants is open government,” said Marysville Law Director Tim Aslaner. “People should be able to see as much ...

The Marysville Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to put a 5.5-mill, 10-year emergency operating levy before voters in November. Discussion on the topic focused on two key areas - how m...

City Council heard a first reading for creation of the North Main Corridor Community Reinvestment Area (CRA). The CRA encompasses the area for a proposed multi-use retail, office and residential devel...

The Richwood Fishing Derby will undergo a name change in 2024 to honor the life of George Showalter. At the regular village council meeting Monday evening, council discussed changing the name of this ...

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Ayden Hawkins, (left) a senior at North Union High School, holds up a fireplace circuit he worked on as part of the district’s engineering program. North Union will receive nearly $400,000 from the Oh...

Patricia Hall, right, and her attorney, Daniel Sabol, smile after learning she would not be sent to prison. Hall pleaded guilty to first-degree felony theft for stealing more than $5 million from an e...

Editor’s note: The following release is supplied by Memorial Health. ––– Memorial Health has announced its services are reaching further in the region with the addition of three new providers to its g...

Eric and Ina Medici, owners of the former Farmers National Bank building pictured at right, used the rendering from the Plain City Uptown Master Plan to illustrate their vision for Bicentennial Park. ...

Mike Justice says he didn’t intend to run for sheriff. “If my intentions were to run for sheriff, I would have retired in January 2023 to give me more time to campaign,” Justice said. Justice said he ...

Sheriff Jamie Patton believes the lessons of the past have prepared him to lead in the future. Patton, 54, says that after being appointed in 2011, he “led the Sheriff’s Office through the difficult r...

The Union County Commissioners read out the board’s annual proclamation earlier this week naming March 17-23 National Ag Week in Union County. Each year, the county celebrates the efforts of local far...

A week after the early morning fire that gutted Benny’s Pizza’s carryout building, the restaurant is open, albeit with a limited menu. “We are open in the dining room building, the patio and the pub,”...

Editor's note: These stories represent the second installment in a three-part series detailing issues and candidates appearing on the March 19 ballot in Union County. Saturday's Journal-Tribune will p...

Editor's note: These stories represent the second installment in a three-part series detailing issues and candidates appearing on the March 19 ballot in Union County. Saturday's Journal-Tribune will p...

The Plain City Police Department is urging residents to be on the look out for solicitation activity in the village without a permit. In a social media post, the department said any solicitor needs to...

Editor's note: The following story is the first of a three-part series detailing issues and candidates who will appear before the Union County voters on the March 19 ballot. Friday's installment will ...

Jerome Township officials plan to consider all of their options before they decide how to regulate marijuana operations in the area. During the trustees meeting Tuesday, the board directed Zoning Insp...

Crews work on lines being hooked to a new telephone pole on East Fifth Street Monday. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens) --

A two-vehicle, head-on injury crash at about 5:15 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 68 at County Road 57 in Logan County resulted in four people being transported to area hospitals. One of the vehicles involved was...

City Manager Terry Emery, right, used the annual State of the City event, held Monday at Leon’s Garage, to help the community better know city council members. Above, council member Mark Reams talks a...

Triad students will soon have new facilities and new class offerings thanks to a $2.2-million grant the district was awarded by the state. Triad Local Schools was awarded $2,189,266 through the Ohio C...

City officials presented a video at Monday night’s State of the City Address, highlighting key accomplishments of the city in 2023. Above, City Manager Terry Emery opens the video detailing the city f...

Fairbanks school officials are working to help district students cope with the loss of a class mate. Blake Gorton, 16, an 11th-grade student at Fairbanks High School died Saturday night as a result of...

LG Energy Solution and Honda recently placed the final structural steel beam at the joint venture’s ne w EV battery production facility being constructed near Jeffersonville. (Photo submitted) -- Hond...

A Fairbanks student is dead and officials are continuing to investigate after a one-vehicle crash Saturday. Blake Gorton, 16, of Woodstock, died at the scene of the crash. According to a report from t...

Benny’s Pizza Carryout, 972 Columbus Ave., could be closed for a while following an early morning fire Friday. Investigators determined the fire was an accident and started in the carryout kitchen. Th...

Fairbanks will kick off its annual State of the Schools next week with a series of informational talks. The event is one of a two-part communication effort the school rolls out early in the year, whic...

The chance of being born on Feb. 29, Leap Day, is 1-in-1,461. The 4.8 million “leaplings” around the world who were born on Leap Day, their actual birthday only comes around once every four years. The...