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Plain City’s Pastime Park is aglow with thousands of Christmas lights along with inflatables, bows, boughs, holly, ribbons, garland and other Christmas decorations. The park is open 24 hours a day for...

The North Union Board of Education is building relationships with two solar companies, whose projects in the northern part of Union County have been approved. This year, the Union County Commissioners...

The preliminary design for a roundabout at the intersection of Mitchell-Dewitt Road and Industrial Parkway is pictured above. Officials from the Union County Engineer’s Office and an engineering consu...

Discussion about a zoning code amendment turned contentious at Monday’s city council meeting. At the meeting, council heard the first reading of legislation that would allow and regulate accessory dwe...

Union County has an approved budget moving into next year. County commissioners approved the 2023 budget recently after an extended process of meeting and talking with each department in person. Offic...

Santa Claus stands in front of the Veterans Shelter in Unionville Center Saturday night, greeting kids in the village. Visitors had the chance to sit with the man in red and view the village’s display...

An effort to settle an alleged prison debt has led to the indictment of a former inmate. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Cody Hunter Kilby Sellers, 28, whose court-listed address is the Montg...

The Village of Richwood Council approved the final reading of the 2023 temporary appropriations and the new pay scale, which begins on Jan. 1, 2023, during its most recent meeting. “In the budget comm...

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan surprised Fairbanks Middle School students during the school’s D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) graduation ceremony Monday afternoon. Jordan briefly spoke to an audience...

Students at Marysville Early College/STEM High School (MECHS) met with local businesses and public service departments on Thursday morning to provide solutions to the problems proposed at the first ST...

While the numbers initially look the same, Triad officials are digging deeper to see growth among their students in reading proficiency. Chief Academic Officer Jenna Fograscher shared an update during...

Plain City employees hosted their First Annual Chili Cook-off Friday. Pictured at left is Parks and Recreation Assistant Director Denton Kitts and at right is Mayor Jody Carney. Through the event, sta...

A Marysville teacher has been put on paid administrative leave following a domestic violence and felonious assault arrest. On Nov. 22, Bunsold Middle School teacher Jesus “Jesse” Ramirez, Jr., 26, of ...

The Ostavitz family, with the help of the Marysville community, will donate about 800 toys to the Ronald McDonald House in Columbus to support families with children receiving treatment at Nationwide ...

The Marysville School District has been experiencing a surge in the number of students with special needs and nowhere is that more evident than at the preschool level. In Ohio, children ages 3-5 with ...

A group of Marysville residents has submitted petitions asking the city to place a recently passed annexation on the ballot. Earlier this week, the citizen committee submitted 65 petition parts contai...

A referendum petition being circulated in Marysville is having an impact 10 miles west of the city. North Lewisburg Administrator Todd Freyhof told village council Friday night that delay in utility w...

The Clevenger family, from left Justyn, Oakland, Sadie and Paige, recently took advantage of the iceless skating rink inside the pavilion at Partners Park. The rink opened this week and will be open w...

A newly awarded grant will help Jonathan Alder officials plan safety and security upgrades for district buildings. At the December regular meeting, board members approved a grant from the Ohio K-12 Sc...

Whitmer Woodworks, a woodworking company located at 8490 Carters Mill Road in Plain City, was destroyed by a fire early Tuesday morning. Pleasant Valley Fire District Chief Mark Kidd said the cause of...

Police were called to the 1100 block of West Fifth Street at about 7:10 p.m. Tuesday on the report of a man threatening to harm himself. First responders were able to talk with the man and get him to ...

As Plain City officials work toward an update of the village’s zoning code, they are giving extra thought to one specific type of property: short-term rentals. During council’s most recent work sessio...

City Council’s Finance Committee wants the entire council to talk about future revenue at Innovation Park. At Monday’s finance committee meeting, the group discussed what should be done with money gen...

Plain City officials are considering how to balance their desire to help local organizations without discriminating against others. Before voting on a measure that would increase rental rates for a nu...

Crews from Double Z Construction were in town Monday and Tuesday to remove the blue and yellow chairs and to install benches in the Uptown. City officials purchased the benches and the seats at the sa...

The Richwood Village Council aims to make “maximum interest” on the village’s funds by moving CDs from Richwood Bank to an account with The State Treasury Asset Reserve of Ohio (STAR Ohio). A CD allow...

A crowd gathered at McAuliffe’s ACE Hardware, 1299 W. Fifth St. on Saturday afternoon for the annual auction for the Care Train of Union County. The nonprofit’s mission is to provide food and toys to ...

Heroes from around Union County came out Saturday to help children in the community have a merry Christmas. Police officers, firefighters, medics and others held their annual Shop with a Hero event th...

The fall out of an extramarital affair has led to felony charges against a Huron County woman. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Danielle Hansbury, 33, of Greenwich, charging her with one count...

The Marysville Public Library hosted Merrysville, an event with crafts and visits with Santa, on Saturday morning. Above, Eli Howland decorates sugar cookies with holiday-themed sprinkles. The Marysvi...