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Honda Marysville brings Acura onboard
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Honda Marysville is set to have Acura vehicles for sale as soon as this weekend as part of the dealership’s plan to open a new Acura location in the city. Construction on the planned facility is anticipated to begin in July, with a completion date of late spring or early summer in 2026. (Photo submitted)
Honda Marysville brings Acura onboard
Sales to begin this weekend; new building planned for next spring
By Jack Christian 
June 11, 2025
Big changes are coming to Honda Marysville, as the dealership announced it will soon open a new Acura location. Bruce Daniels, the dealer principal, envisions what he describes as a “Honda-Disney-like...
Former N.L. fiscal officer on the hook for $40K after audit
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Former N.L. fiscal officer on the hook for $40K after audit
By Chad Williamson 
June 11, 2025
Officials never envisioned the fallout when the village of North Lewisburg parted ways with its former fiscal officer in March of 2024. The Ohio Auditor of State’s office has returned findings of negl...
Fair assessment of Union County
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Fair assessment of Union County
Group digs into number, location of future events
By Michael Williamson 
June 11, 2025
Should Union County have two fairs or only one? If just one, where should it be? Those were questions the team from the Union County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Institute offered to the county comm...
Marysville board primed to reprimand Ferguson
Marysville School Board, News
Marysville board primed to reprimand Ferguson
By Chad Williamson 
June 11, 2025
The Marysville Board of Education appears poised to vote on reprimanding one of its own. On the agenda for tonight’s school board meeting is a resolution to censure member Jermaine Ferguson in respons...
NU grad pitches plan for Opera House
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NU grad pitches plan for Opera House
By Kyle Meddles 
June 11, 2025
A small business owner and North Union graduate has made an offer on the Opera House and came before Richwood’s village council to discuss what his plans would be with the building if his bid is accep...
Citizens to city: Slow down Marysville East
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Citizens to city: Slow down Marysville East
By Mike Williamson 
June 10, 2025
The message was loud and clear at the Marysville City Council meeting Monday night: things are moving too fast and people want it to slow down – in this case, decisions over the Marysville East develo...
Music tapped as Marysville AD
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Music tapped as Marysville AD
By Tim Miller 
June 10, 2025
There will be a new Marysville High School athletic director this week, pending approval by the district’s board of education. The board will meet during its regular monthly meeting on Thursday. Distr...
Roundabout work begins
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Roundabout work begins
By From JT Staff Reports 
June 10, 2025
Crews finished the first week of work on the roundabout project on Coleman’s Crossing Boulevard and Industrial Parkway. Work began on June 2 with pulling up the roadway and clearing the ground for imp...
Driver hits utility pole in injury crash
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Driver hits utility pole in injury crash
By From JT Staff Reports 
June 9, 2025
An impaired driver was transported to the hospital in the evening hours on Friday after striking a utility pole in the 13000 block of Industrial Parkway, according to reports from the Union County She...
Construction season begins at Fairbanks
Education, News
Construction season begins at Fairbanks
By Jack Christian 
June 9, 2025
As summer kicks off, so does construction across the Fairbanks School District. With students out for the season, crews have moved into the high school and middle school to begin major upgrades. Demol...
Hands-on learning
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Hands-on learning
By Michael Williamson 
June 9, 2025
Greyson, 4, of Bellefontaine, learns about the City of Marysville’s concrete recycling program at the annual Touch a Truck event Friday. The city’s cost-savings program takes used concrete and surfaci...
Marysville woman charged in human trafficking ring
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Marysville woman charged in human trafficking ring
By From JT Staff Reports 
June 9, 2025
A Marysville woman is listed among the group who pleaded guilty to charges related to a Columbus-area human trafficking ring. Alexias Monay Lashel Carr-Johnson, 30, of Marysville pleaded guilty to per...
Touch a Truck event avoids gloomy weather
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Touch a Truck event avoids gloomy weather
By Michael Williamson 
June 7, 2025
Slightly gray and gloomy weather didn’t keep Hayes, 2, of Marysville, from checking out a parked backhoe at the city’s annual Touch a Truck event Friday morning. Families stopped by Mill Valley Park C...
Jerome trustees OK 24-home development
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Jerome trustees OK 24-home development
By Kyle Meddles 
June 7, 2025
The Jerome Township Trustees voted to approve the next step toward bringing a new 24-unit housing development to the township, a development with a focus on preserving trees during its construction. D...
Art wraps appearing in Uptown
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The first of the Marysville traffic box wraps is up at Partners Park. The first one, shown above, is titled “Running into the Future” and embraces the project theme of bringing the past to life. Residents are encouraged to check out the art piece, which will be one of nine around the Uptown. (Journal-Tribune photo by Michael Williamson)
Art wraps appearing in Uptown
By Michael Williamson 
June 6, 2025
The first of Marysville’s traffic box wraps is now available for people to see. Earlier this week, crews installed the first wrap at Partners Park in the city’s Uptown as part of the 2025 Traffic Box ...
CSX confirms no injuries in train derailment
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CSX confirms no injuries in train derailment
By Kyle Meddles 
June 6, 2025
A spokesperson for CSX Transportation has confirmed that a local CSX work train derailed a locomotive at around 8:40 a.m., Thursday, and that there were no injuries or threat to the surrounding commun...
Emergency crews not called to derailment
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Crews work to clean up a train engine and car derailment early Thursday morning on the railroad tracks near Industrial Parkway and Parker-Hannifin. (Photo submitted)
Emergency crews not called to derailment
By Kyle Meddles 
June 5, 2025
CSX Transportation crews worked to clean up a train engine and car derailment early Thursday morning on the railroad near Industrial Parkway and Parker-Hannifin. Fire Marshal Keith Watson with the Mar...
Property values expected to climb
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Property values expected to climb
By Michael Williamson 
June 4, 2025
Union County may be slightly late in turning in the revaluation abstract to the state after the recent cyber security incident, but it doesn’t change the results: property values will likely be going ...
UCBDD will seek renewal levy in the fall
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UCBDD will seek renewal levy in the fall
By Michael Williamson 
June 4, 2025
The Union County Board of Developmental Disabilities is officially asking to return to the ballot this November. At the regular county commissioners meeting Wednesday, Kara Brown, the UCBDD superinten...
Warmest day of the year so far
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Warmest day of the year so far
By Kyle Meddles 
June 4, 2025
As the temperature reaches past the 85-degree mark, local residents are out-and-about in the sunshine. Above, Kim Bowen pushes her grandson, Cruz Doi, on the swings at Schwartzkopf Park. Temperatures ...
Curb appeal
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Curb appeal
By From JT Staff Reports 
June 4, 2025
Workers are shown Monday setting new curbs on Chestnut Street, across from the Marysville School District Administration offices. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)
County climbs to five tick types
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Ohio is seeing rise in its tick population and the most common ones to find around the state are, from left: blacklegged tick nymph, blacklegged tick female, blacklegged tick male, American dog tick female, American Dog tick male, Lone Star tick female and the Lone Star tick male. (Photo submitted)
County climbs to five tick types
By Michael Williamson 
June 3, 2025
Ohio has more ticks than it used to and there are more species that carry more diseases – some of which are here in Union County. That is according to Tim McDermott, a professor of agriculture and nat...
Richwood’s colorful zoning officer retiring
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Richwood’s colorful zoning officer retiring
By Kyle Meddles 
June 3, 2025
Those who have found themselves at the Richwood Municipal Building over the last seven years may have heard a joke or 20 coming from the direction of the zoning office. That time will soon be coming t...
Suspect shot by police had history of violence
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Suspect shot by police had history of violence
By Kyle Meddles 
June 2, 2025
Following an officer-involved shooting stemming from a domestic incident Friday, the Marysville Police Division has identified the suspect, Dustin Edward Ohm, 29, of Marysville, who has a prior histor...
Honda to sponsor Olympics
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Following the announcement that Honda will be partnering with the LA 2028 Olympic Games, Olympian Annette Echikunwoke and two Honda members unveiled an Acura decorated with olympic and American logos to celebrate the sponsorship, shown above. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)
Honda to sponsor Olympics
By Jack Christian 
June 2, 2025
Honda is set to reach new heights in 2028, as the company has been officially named the exclusive automotive partner of the Los Angeles Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The announcement was live-s...
Fatal crash reported in Champaign County
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Fatal crash reported in Champaign County
By From JT Staff Reports 
June 2, 2025
The Springfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol handled a one-vehicle fatal crash on Sunday at 11:37 p.m. The crash occurred on Route 235 near mile post 13 in Champaign County. Preliminary repor...
Springtime hatchlings
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Springtime hatchlings
By From JT Staff Reports 
June 2, 2025
Area residents know that spring brings a host of feathered friends making nests in trees and a variety of other locations. The blue eggs in a nest off Seventh Street, shown at left, soon turned into a...
Pair charged in connection with theft of flooring from Home Depot
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Pair charged in connection with theft of flooring from Home Depot
Grand jury indictments
By Kyle Meddles 
June 2, 2025
A pair of Columbus men are being charged with burglarizing the Home Depot in Marysville to steal flooring. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Jeffrey S. Renne, 58, of Columbus, and Talmadge Earl...
Plain City considers hiring more police officers
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Plain City considers hiring more police officers
By Mike Williamson 
May 31, 2025
Plain City is looking to hire police officers as they discuss how future growth may also bring a need to expand the force. At the recent village council meeting, Haley Lupton, the village administrato...
Police, suspect exchange gunfire
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Police, suspect exchange gunfire
Suspect hit with multiple rounds; officer injured
By From JT Staff Reports 
May 30, 2025
A man and area law enforcement officers exchanged gunfire in the early morning hours Friday, resulting in the suspect being shot and an officer injured. According to a press release from the Marysvill...