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Richwood Opera House Committee members had more questions than answers following the presentation of the recent feasibility study results. After months of waiting on the project, the final results did...

Plain City Police Department officials are asking community members to join them in honoring the life of a fallen law enforcement member, K9 Andor. A funeral service for K9 Andor will be held at 10 a....

Marysville will not be getting an extended stay hotel on the city’s west side. At its Monday night meeting, city council rejected a proposed change to the city’s zoning code that would have allowed ex...

Plain City Council members are considering whether to limit the length of stays at the Pastime Park Campground in an effort to keep the site open year-round while curbing any issues that may stem from...

Plain City Police Department Sgt. Tharon Prather, at right, is pictured giving bicyclists a signal to keep riding through Safety Town once the streetlight turned green. Plain City Elementary School ho...

Officials remain hopeful the bridge on East Fourth Street will reopen this week. Crews were paving the bridge Wednesday with hopes of installing guardrail today and striping the pavement Friday. Offic...

A proposed tax abatement for an Uptown redevelopment project led Plain City Council to debate the larger question of whether the village is business friendly. “It can be said we are not pro-business b...

Fairbanks and Darby Township officials are partnering to add another tornado siren to the area. The district’s board of education approved a donation Monday that would accept more than $30,000 for the...

Marysville City Council on Monday approved a pre-annexation agreement with Rockford Development Investments. The developer is looking to bring more than 800 acres from Paris Township into the City of ...

A portion of Benton Road in Allen Township will be closed beginning today. Township officials will be replacing a culvert in the 21000 block of the road. Weather permitting, officials have said they b...

A West Central inmate was apprehended following a pursuit Sunday after he escaped from the facility Saturday. Matthew I. McKenzie, 34, of Sidney was charged with one count of escape, a felony of the t...

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Traffic was closed for a time on Chestnut Street on Saturday after a rollover crash involving two cars at the intersection with Tenth Street. Police officials acknowledged they responded to the crash,...

Honda and its partner, LG Energy Solution, marked a major construction milestone, recently setting the first steel beam at the joint battery plant in Fayette County. (Photo submitted) -- Honda marked ...

A City of Marysville worker tests the water coming from a fire hydrant on West Third Street near the Arbors apartment complex Monday morning. The city has been working on a water line replacement proj...

Work has started on the complete resurfacing of Elwood Avenue in Marysville. The street that connects North Main and Maple streets will be reduced to one lane, likely until the project is completed in...

Changes could be coming to Union County’s economic development plan. Eric Phillips, the county’s economic development director, said that his office is looking to update some of the information associ...

Marysville City Council and the Marysville Board of Education held a joint meeting Thursday morning in an effort to iron out differences between the two entities. Above, the meeting opened with remark...

Union County Health Department officials said a proposed strategic plan for the agency highlights “a commitment to who we have been as we explore how we need to change and grow.” Deputy Director of He...

Pictured above are plans for improvements to Greenwood Park, in the area of Greenwood Colony, the Links and Adena Pointe. For reference the upper left corner of the schematic above shows the Timbervie...

After a series of disagreements made public by the Jerome Township Trustees and Union County Commissioners, one official is urging the boards to resume work toward an economic development agreement. “...

Plain City children recently had the opportunity to get an up-close look at vehicles of all kinds during the village’s Touch a Truck event. Children were able to climb on and explore a variety of truc...

A nurse in the Marysville area has pleaded guilty to performing sexual acts on his patients, behavior he convinced many of the victims were required for their employment. On Tuesday morning, Brian Fre...

North Union officials said student behavior was among the top things the district worked to improve in the 2022-23 school year. Monday’s regular school board meeting featured a read-through of the dis...

Members of the Plain City Police Department are asking community members to come together to mourn the death of the infant girl whose body was found Friday. “She deserved far more than she received, s...

New fleet cruisers have arrived at the Union County Sheriff’s Office for this year, but next year is looking questionable. Sheriff Jamie Patton said the cars recently arrived from Ford but also indica...

K9 Andor is pictured with his handler, PCPD Officer Josh Hirtzinger. Andor passed away at the end of his working shift on June 18 after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma. PCPD Chief ...

A pair of ladder trucks hold an American flag in Raymond Friday morning ahead of the funeral procession of former Liberty Township Fire Chief Lloyd Segner. Segner began working for the department at t...

Plain City investigators are trying to find out what happened after the body of a female infant was discovered in the back of a garbage truck. Police Chief Dale McKee said a refuse collector working i...

As the Marysville Board of Education tries to figure out its next move to secure more operating funds, the case for pursuing an income tax seems to be the most compelling. The board was presented with...