Locals take part in Japanese TV show
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November 8, 2024
Shelly Detwiler, center left, and her husband, Paul, center right, sit with four generations of the Koike family in Japan, eating a feast featuring edamame. The Jerome Township couple, won a trip to appear on Japanese TV this summer and flew to Japan for a week where they learned about the cultivation and use of the Japanese soybean variety. (Photo submitted)

Locals take part in Japanese TV show

By Michael Williamson 

Agriculture in Union County might bring to mind corn, soybeans, hay and other traditional crops synonymous with midwestern farming. What might not come to mind is Japanese edamame, but that is precisely what landed two Union County farmers on a primetime reality show in Japan.

“I got a message thro...

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By From JT Staff Reports 
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Members of the Ohio Village Diamonds female baseball team took on the Redbirds, comprised of local athletes, in some 19th-century style baseball Saturday at the North Lewisburg Park as part of the vil...
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