The Fairbanks High School football team will host Triad for its annual Homecoming game on Friday. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Homecoming ceremonies will be held prior to the game at 6:30 p.m. Members of...

Jonathan Alder’s Homecoming football game will be Friday when the Pioneers host Kenton Ridge. Members of the school’s Homecoming court are from left, junior attendants Gregory Kennedy and Carmela Dixo...

Plain City Council will hold a joint meeting with the Madison County Commissioners next week to determine whether they will regionalize water and sewer services. Council voted unanimously during its r...

The Jerome Township trustees approved a new policy for hiring employees, although one board member expressed concerns that he could be excluded from the process. During a special meeting Monday, the B...

For the second time, the Village of Richwood Council tabled a discussion to amend the town ordinance to add a fee for non-conforming use permits. Residents who had livestock on their properties within...

No action was taken following an executive session to discuss the potential purchase of an aerial ladder truck, but Jerome Township Trustee Chair Megan Sloat said she feels officials are now in a bett...

Marysville City Council recently heard the first reading of legislation to rezone about 196 acres on Route 245 near U.S. 33. If approved, the rezoning would allow for the 637-home Stillwater Farms dev...

Marysville Division of Police’s Ballistic Armored Tactical Transport (BATT) vehicle sits on a trailer at the police station Monday, ready to travel to get repaired. The vehicle, which was involved in ...

Monarch quarterback Brady Seger prepares to throw a pass against Hilliard Darby. The Monarchs will host unbeaten Dublin Jerome for Homecoming on Friday. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) -- A...

Union County isn’t building enough homes. This is according to the Building Industry Association of Central Ohio’s recently published study looking at housing needs in the Columbus and central Ohio re...

Pictured above is the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new non-profit 2nd Chances Thrift Store located at 112 S. Main St., in uptown Marysville. Present were various city officials, business lea...

City of Marysville worker Bryan Gilliland works to smooth out concrete on a sidewalk at the corner of Fourth and Plum streets Monday. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)

The cost for health insurance benefits for county employees is going up but officials agree the county should absorb most of the cost. Union County Commissioners recently voted to approve the rates in...

Local health department officials are honing in on a handful of goals to help serve the county as efficiently as possible. During the most recent Board of Health meeting, Accreditation Coordinator Tim...

Jonathan Alder and North Union were among the participants on Saturday in the Dublin Jerome Celtic Classic. The Pioneers finished seventh in the Gold Varsity girls race and the boys team finished nint...

U.S. 33 was closed in both directions Friday morning following a single-vehicle crash in Jerome Township. According to a statement from Lt. Shawn Cook, commander at the Marysville Post of the Ohio Sta...

Traffic piled up at the Five Points intersection on Thursday afternoon after a disabled train blocked the railroad crossing on Delaware Avenue. (Journal-Tribune photo by Ally Lanasa) -- A train experi...

The Jerome Township Board of Trustees adopted one new procedural policy, but chose not to act on another. The policy adopted will reduce the number of meetings at which department heads are in attenda...

The residents of a Jerome Township home are safe after a garage fire spread into their home. Jerome Township Division of Fire Chief Douglas Stewart said JTFD crews responded to a reported structure fi...

The City of Marysville has several options for the Five Points intersection and wants to hear the public’s opinion on them. Marysville will host an open house from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall, 209...

As hundreds of soldiers gathered to prepare to be deployed, the attention was not on them but the audience. “The most difficult sacrifice lies with those who care about the soldiers on this floor,” sa...

The North Union Board of Education recently discussed allocating money to establish a separate fund for North Union Elementary School’s student council. During the meeting on Monday, Board President B...

Marysville’s finance committee has noted it will likely see more revenue from property tax next year, though probably not as much as people might think. Finance Director Brad Lutz said that when prope...

Union County officials have received a qualified energy project request from the Cadence Solar Project, the second of the solar companies to request the tax exemption. If it’s approved by the county, ...

Michael N. Wright, 60, died Tuesday, at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Wright was driving this 2008 Toyota Tundra south on Route 31 when the red semi-truck crossed the center line an...

After months of advocating for the purchase of an aerial ladder truck from Pierce Manufacturing, the Jerome Township Fire Chief told the trustees he would rather purchase the equipment from Sutphen th...

A pair of crashes had traffic snarled and a major road closed Wednesday morning. Officials from the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Union County Sheriff’s Office said many of the crash details are n...

Trees along West Fifth Street in Marysville have been in the ground for about a year and the city is doing young tree maintenance to keep them healthy. The maintenance involves removing the water bag ...

Honda officials are acknowledging they have overpaid some employees and asking for their money back. Last week, some employees at Honda’s Marysville Auto Plant received a memo letting them know that a...

Fairbanks officials are considering presenting a series of informational talks on human trafficking to middle school students. At the regular meeting on Monday night, school board members and parents ...