Police Beat

July 17, 2025

Police Beat – 7/17/25

By From JT Staff Reports

From Marysville Division of Police reports:

An officer was sent to a home in the 300 block of Hickory Drive at 10:53 a.m., Tuesday, to investigate a report of theft by deception against a 35-year-old male resident. The investigation is marked as pending.

Police were dispatched to a home in the 800 blo...

Police Beat

Police Beat – 7/18/25

By From JT Staff Reports

July 18, 2025

From Marysville Division of Police reports: Police were sent to the 100 block of Taylor Avenue at 6:27 p.m., Tuesday, for a report of identity theft. The case is closed. An officer was sent to a home ...

Local News, News, Police Beat

Man assaults coworker, fires shot in the air

By From JT Staff Reports

July 16, 2025

A Marysville man was arrested after punching a person in the face and discharging a firearm into the air at a business early Tuesday morning. Derrick Eugene Craycraft, 46, of Marysville, has been char...

Police Beat

Police Beat – 7/16/25

By From JT Staff Reports

July 16, 2025

From Marysville Division of Police reports: An officer was dispatched to a grocery store in the 400 block of East Sixth Street at 9:06 a.m., Monday, for a reported theft. The case is closed. In the 10...

Education, Marysville School Board, News

Marysville facility plan approved by board of education

By Chad Williamson

July 18, 2025

It appears a new middle school and grade reconfiguration will lead the way as the Marysville School District plans for the future. Faced with bulging enrollment, the district asked the HPM consulting ...

Local News, News

Grassroots project

By Aleksei Pavloff

July 18, 2025

Crews working on Fairbanks' football field and track recently began installing sod onto the gridiron this past week. The new grass turf is to be completed prior to the start of the 2025 season while t...

News, Plain City News

Wastewater treatment facility serving Plain City progressing

By Jack Christian

July 18, 2025

Plain City is undergoing a period of significant growth and transformation, marked by a series of ongoing infrastructure projects through the village and the service area covered by the Mid-Ohio Water...

Local News, News

Break-in reported at Dave’s Pharmacy

By Kyle Meddles

July 18, 2025

The Marysville Division of Police is actively investigating a breaking and entering that occurred early Friday morning at Dave’s Pharmacy, which is a crime that police do not normally see in the city....

Wildcat gridders work on craft during passing scrimmage

Sports

North Union’s Nickolas Hajjar (orange) cuts off Fairbanks’ Cooper Phelps on a route leading to a Wildcat interception. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Wildcat gridders work on craft during passing scrimmage

By Aleksei Pavloff

July 18, 2025

Off-season scrimmages of any kind offer opportunities for individual players to work on their craft. For two players on North Union’s football team, one is gearing up for his second season starting at...

Pioneer graduate earns 2025 Johnny Bench Award for top Ohio prep baseball catcher

Sports

Jonathan Alder’s Jace Schrock blasts a grand slam home run in this file photo. Schrock has earned the 2025 Johnny Bench Award for the best high school baseball catcher in the state of Ohio. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller)

Pioneer graduate earns 2025 Johnny Bench Award for top Ohio prep baseball catcher

By Tim Miller

July 18, 2025

Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Johnny Bench has gone down in history as the greatest catcher ever to play Major League baseball. His career was such that the franchise named an award after him to be pr...