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Staffing issues at the Union County Sheriff’s Office may lead to cutting back positions, including contracts with other agencies. Sheriff Jamie Patton told the county commissioners Wednesday that his ...

Pictured above at the recent groundbreaking for the McCulloch Building are, from left to right, John Connolly, Heidi Klapp, Alexis Johnston, Pamela Connolly, Sarah Connolly, Susan Butts, Bob McCulloch...

Readers of all ages are invited to participate in the Plain City Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. A reading program is available for children ages 3-12, teens ages 12-17 and adults who are 18 ...

North Lewisburg Village Council made some adjustments to oversight of the park at Tuesday night’s meeting. Village officials realized recently that the actual make-up of the park board did not align w...

Village Administrator Haley Lupton said behind-the-scenes work on Plain City’s connectivity and Uptown streetscapes will become more apparent to residents in the coming months. During the most recent ...

City of Marysville officials are considering a zoning code amendment that would add “extended stay hotels” as a conditional use within a Suburban Commercial District. The proposed change comes after a...

Plain City Council approved the first of its 2023 “Community Support Fund” spending to Rock the Clock during its Monday meeting. Council unanimously approved a motion to provide $2,000 to the organiza...

Members of Marysville City Council were updated on the progress of several projects in the city’s Innovation Park during a meeting Monday night. Economic Development Director Eric Phillips said three ...

Pictured above is Memorial Health Certified Family Nurse Practitioner Sean Ono Gill in front of the hospital’s new Japanese Clinic. Gill, who speaks Japanese, was instrumental in helping create the cl...

Horizon Prison Initiative 2023 graduate Averi Gamache holds her daughter while she speaks during the graduation celebration Friday. She said she used to feel ashamed of herself and her past, wishing h...

As the summer season kicks into full gear, the Union County Health Department is reminding residents that they can enjoy fresh food from a farmers market, which are hosted locally every day of the wee...

Plain City was selected by Mother’s Cookies as the exclusive launch community for the inaugural National Frosted Cookie Day on Saturday. To celebrate, Mother’s Cookies held a “takeover” of the village...

A Plain City man with at least five prior drunk driving convictions has been indicted again. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Daniel L. Elick, 60, of 7909 Currier Road, charging him with four ...

Fairbanks is fast-tracking its locker room renovation project this summer. At a special meeting Friday morning, the district’s board of education passed a resolution declaring “urgent necessity” and p...

Field Source’s Matt Neff waters the sand-based sod at North Union’s Ignite Field Saturday Wednesday afternoon keeping it moist during its installation. Crews began installing the new grass turf earlie...

Union County residents will soon see their next cycle of tax bills in the mail. At the regular meeting of the Union County department officials Tuesday, Treasurer Andrew Smarra told the county commiss...

A Plain City man with at least five prior drunk driving convictions has been indicted again. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Daniel L. Elick, 60, of 7909 Currier Rd., charging him with four c...

Earlier this week, teens from the Under the Rainbow Art Club visited Uptown businesses to give their sidewalks and windows a makeover in honor of Pride Month and in time for the Marysville Pride Fest....

“Do we go on in November or do we wait?” That question regarding a levy attempt by Marysville School Board President Sue Devine was the impetus behind a special meeting called Tuesday. After the solid...

Above, participants in the Harmony Project, a Columbus-based nonprofit that builds community around music, from the Ohio Reformatory for Women, Madison Correctional Institution and Pickaway Correction...

Calon Blakenship, 8, slides on a wet tarp on the last day of Marysville Monarch Baseball Camp on Wednesday. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens) --

Marysville officials have presented a plan to construct a new aquatics facility on the Maple Street site where the city’s Maintenance and Operations Center (MOC) and the Bark Park are currently locate...

An in-home assistant has been charged with stealing from an elderly woman with traumatic brain injury. A Union County Grand Jury has indicted Miranda Varney, 27, of West Mansfield, charging her with o...

Emotions boiled over as residents shouted at council members, cursed at the law director and walked out of the meeting during a work session discussion of Plain City’s noise ordinance. “The rhetoric h...

Marysville officials are saying that while it is only the first week of June, residents are already seeing a benefit from the newly constructed water treatment plant. “If we didn’t have the new plant ...

Marysville held its annual Touch-A-Truck event Friday with a variety of vehicles and equipment from the police, fire and streets departments as well as the Ohio National Guard and other agencies for t...

With the help of recently purchased parking sensors and software, Marysville is once again able to enforce parking regulations in the city’s Uptown. Above, Officer Hayze Reeves issues an over-time par...

Union County is gearing up for summer events and with that comes an influx of visitors to the area. The county’s Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Director Karen Eylon said it’s their job to attract tho...

Festivities for the PGA’s Memorial Tournament have been ongoing through this week in Dublin with the actual tournament starting Thursday at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Above, Adam Scott, of Australia...

On May 2, 23-year-old Aaron Bravo died in the Memorial Hospital Emergency Department. About 4 p.m. that day, his roommate had found him unresponsive in the living room of his West Fourth Street home. ...