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Richwood will try to renew streets levy
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Richwood will try to renew streets levy
By Kyle Meddles 
March 25, 2026
A pair of council issues saw decisions on Monday evening during Richwood’s village council meeting, including a resolution on the village’s ordinances for food trucks and an expiring road levy. Counci...
City egg scramble sees hundreds
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City egg scramble sees hundreds
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 25, 2026
Hundreds of people turned out for Marysville’s Egg Scramble at Partners Park Saturday morning. Officials with Main Street Marysville said that while the Easter event gave out more than 600 wristbands ...
Chick-fil-A traffic plan set
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Chick-fil-A traffic plan set
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 24, 2026
Chick-fil-A is set to open April 2 and Marysville officials are working with the company to ensure traffic moves as smoothly as possible. With the anticipated traffic pressures that Thursday through t...
Wind shear chaos
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Dispatchers in the Union County Sheriff’s Office 911 center, shown above, handle several calls on a daily basis. Dispatchers in the center on March 13 during the wind storm handled four-times the call volume of a typical afternoon. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kyle Meddles)
Wind shear chaos
Dispatchers describe being in the 911 center as March 13 winds hit
By Michael Williamson 
March 24, 2026
Once calls started coming into the Union County Sheriff’s Office 911 center on March 13, they didn’t quit for nearly three hours. The day started out normally for dispatch supervisors Rachel Kerr and ...
Fork threat leads to domestic violence charge
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Fork threat leads to domestic violence charge
Grand jury indictments
By Kyle Meddles 
March 24, 2026
A Marysville man with prior convictions of domestic violence faces a third-degree felony charge after allegedly threatening to stab his mother with a fork. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Ree...
A March hail in Plain City
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A March hail in Plain City
By Michael Williamson 
March 23, 2026
Quarter-size hail pieces land with a bang on rooftops and walkways in Plain City Sunday night. A thunderstorm system passed through the area into the evening hours, bringing thunder, lighting, rain an...
Domestic violence call leads to abduction charges and arrest
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Domestic violence call leads to abduction charges and arrest
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 23, 2026
A Marysville man is in police custody and being charged with abduction and domestic violence after he was arrested early Monday morning. According to the Marysville Division of Police, officers arrest...
“I did commit the murder”
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“I did commit the murder”
Man who killed father with knife in Mill Valley admits guilt
By Kyle Meddles 
March 21, 2026
“I did commit the murder.” Those were the words of 28-year-old Micaiah Swindler, the man charged with stabbing his father to death at a Mill Valley home in April of 2025, during a plea hearing in the ...
Schools plan for AI surge
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Schools plan for AI surge
By Chad Williamson 
March 21, 2026
Officials with the Marysville Exempted Village School District are exploring how artificial intelligence could eventually be used in classrooms, by teachers, students and, eventually, by the school bu...
County EMA director named to national post
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County EMA director named to national post
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 21, 2026
Last year, Union County’s Emergency Management Agency worked to received accreditation from a national organization. This year, its director, Brad Gilbert, will be one of the people who now votes to a...
Two-vehicle crash prompts police, fire
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Two-vehicle crash prompts police, fire
By Kyle Meddles 
March 20, 2026
A two-vehicle crash at the intersection of East Fourth Street and North Plum Street prompted a response from the Marysville fire and police departments at around 4:30 p.m., Thursday. Airbags were depl...
Demo of former water treatment plant underway
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Demo of former water treatment plant underway
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 20, 2026
Construction crews work through the demolition of the former Marysville water treatment plant on North Main Street Thursday. While the right side of the building and tanks will come down, the left sid...
Janitor faces firing over harassment of teacher
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Janitor faces firing over harassment of teacher
By Chad Williamson 
March 19, 2026
An internal investigation by Marysville Exempted Village Schools has substantiated allegations of sexual harassment against a district custodian concerning a teacher at Creekview Intermediate School. ...
Nuclear a local energy solution?
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Above is concept art of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, depicting three large reactor buildings that each house four units. The Cascade Advanced Energy Facility is a planned project in Washington State, spearheaded by Energy Northwest and supported by Amazon, to deploy multiple X-energy Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs). (Graphic submitted)
Nuclear a local energy solution?
Phillips tells commissioners about clean power advancements
By Michael Williamson 
March 19, 2026
As growth continues locally and statewide, officials are going to need to figure out how to generate more power for various types of development in the area. One potential solution? Going nuclear. Eri...
Jerome clamps down on data centers
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Jerome clamps down on data centers
By Jack Christian 
March 19, 2026
Jerome Township trustees voted Tuesday night to move forward with proposed amendments to data center land use regulations, reclassifying such developments as a conditional use rather than an approved ...
Fairbanks officials hear updates on projects, access road
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Fairbanks officials hear updates on projects, access road
By Jack Christian 
March 19, 2026
Fairbanks officials held a presentation Monday night to share an update on the status of several planned 2026 projects, highlighting efforts aimed at completing the work efficiently. Ted Musielewicz o...
A.G. cautions about messaging apps during sunshine week
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A.G. cautions about messaging apps during sunshine week
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 18, 2026
Platforms and apps that delete messages top the list of things public officials shouldn’t use, according to the Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. The state’s chief legal officer released the 2026 editi...
$7M second UCSO facility eyed
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A new Union County Sheriff’s Office facility is being planned for the open land on County-Home Road just west of the county Joint Recreation District on County-Home Road, shown above at right. The building will sit between the City of Marysville’s Decker Station 271, shown at bottom-left and the Union County Engineer’s Operations Facility at the top-left. (Graphic submitted)
$7M second UCSO facility eyed
By Michael Williamson 
March 18, 2026
Union County is working on a new facility that will both expand and consolidate the various locations currently used by the sheriff’s office. The deadline for architecture firms to submit a statement ...
NU sees field maintenance costs rise
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NU sees field maintenance costs rise
By Kyle Meddles 
March 18, 2026
The North Union Board of Education heard a presentation from its sports field consultants, Field Source, who gave a look ahead to maintenance efforts for 2026 – which will mark the fourth year of coll...
Area man charged with child porn offenses
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Area man charged with child porn offenses
By Kyle Meddles 
March 17, 2026
A Marysville man was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with pandering child porn after investigators received a tip from his IP address. Following a search warrant at 376 Windsor Drive at 7 a.m., T...
Responders scramble to handle wind calls
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Above, a home on Shirk Road had the majority of its roof blown off by Friday's high winds. (Photo submitted)
Responders scramble to handle wind calls
911 center saw four-days worth of calls in three hours
By Michael Williamson 
March 17, 2026
Union County is recovering after winds near 70 mph tore through the area late last week. Local officials said emergency responders were called to a wide range of wind-related incidents across the area...
Transfer targets for Canaan should be no problem for J.A.
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Jonathan Alder’s new addition to Canaan Middle School, shown in the rendering above, will add four new classrooms to the southwest corner of the building at U.S. 42 and Price-Hilliards Road in Madison County. District officials are moving forward with their plan to move three fourth-grade classes to the school in an effort to address capacity issues at Plain City Elementary School. (Graphic submitted)
Transfer targets for Canaan should be no problem for J.A.
By Michael Williamson 
March 17, 2026
Jonathan Alder’s plan to move some fourth graders over to Canaan Middle School by next year is well on its way. Board of education members received an update at the regular monthly meeting Tuesday on ...
Wind damage everywhere
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Wind damage everywhere
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 16, 2026
Drivers attempt to remove a tree that had collapsed onto Raymond Road Friday. Winds hitting 70 mph blew through the county throughout the afternoon causing downed power lines, utility poles, trees, tr...
P.C. Council hears project update on Shepper, Converse work
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P.C. Council hears project update on Shepper, Converse work
By Jack Christian 
March 16, 2026
At the most recent Plain City Council meeting, village officials provided an update on the ongoing Shepper and Converse avenues reconstruction project, outlining planned improvements that aim to enhan...
Ratterman makes the stage at the Oscars
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Ratterman makes the stage at the Oscars
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 16, 2026
Union County had some representation at the 98th Academy Awards Sunday night after Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” won the Oscar for best picture. Included in the celebratio...
Richwood hotel’s haunted history
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Above, Villa Hotel owner Jackie Hamilton descends the creaky wooden steps into the basement. Built in 1903, the building currently operates as a bar and restaurant but has a haunted local history in Richwood. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kyle Meddles)
Richwood hotel’s haunted history
By Kyle Meddles 
March 14, 2026
Just off of the main thoroughfare in Richwood is the Villa Bar and Grill, a brick-and-mortar business operating on the first floor of a nearly 123-year-old building steeped in a rich local history and...
Trio of Honda EVs, including two planned for MAP, axed
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Trio of Honda EVs, including two planned for MAP, axed
By Michael Williamson 
March 14, 2026
Honda is canceling the development and launch of three EV (electric vehicle) models, at least two of which were planned for the Marysville Auto Plant. The company made the announcement Thursday saying...
Wind-blown mayhem Friday
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Wind-blown mayhem Friday
By From JT Staff Reports 
March 13, 2026
A tree lays across East Fourth Street in Marysville Friday, just west of Vine Street. The downed tree, laying over a car, was just one of a number of high wind-related incidents that swept the county ...
Brick wall at roundabout struck by SUV
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Brick wall at roundabout struck by SUV
By Kyle Meddles 
March 13, 2026
A driver was cited for failure to maintain full attention after driving an SUV into the brick wall in the center of the roundabout at Industrial Parkway and Coleman's Crossing Boulevard around 9 a.m.,...
Richwood road levy to expire
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During Richwood’s recent council meeting, Union County Auditor Andrea Weaver, pictured above, visited to inform council of the village’s expiring road repair levy, which generates around $100,000 annually and makes its final collection in 2027. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kyle Meddles)
Richwood road levy to expire
Officials will have to decide on renewal
By Kyle Meddles 
March 13, 2026
Richwood Council will soon have to decide whether to go to the ballot as early as November for its expiring road repair and maintenance levy. Union County Auditor Andrea Weaver told village council re...