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Bryson Boggs holds his winning entry for All Ohio Balloon Festival event guide cover contest. Boggs received an iPad courtesy of Marysville Walmart and two general admission Friday/Saturday tickets fo...

The body of Colin Cole was found this morning inside the freezer at UDF, 101 N. Cherry St. The day manager found the body of the employee when she arrived at work. The death remains under investigatio...

Jerome Township Trustees are hopeful that a police levy will strike a balance between protecting their community without footing the bill for the entire county. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to ...

Residents listen as Plain City Police Chief Dale McKee, pictured at center, speaks during a tour of the new Plain City Police Department. Directly behind McKee is a door to the department’s safe room,...

The Union County Fair has added a country musician Gary Allan to this year’s roster of entertainment. This morning, fair officials announced that Allan, a six-time Academy of Country Music Awards nomi...

Plain City officials gathered recently to host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the village’s new municipal building. Officials initially planned to hold an open house for the building, which houses the ...

A trio of local clerks were charged over the weekend following a joint operation between the Marysville Division of Police, the Union County Mental Health and Recovery Board and the Ohio Department of...

Union County’s communities celebrated the nation’s Independence Day over the weekend. Above, Plain City hosted a parade as part of a day-long celebration which included live music, games, food trucks,...

Fairbanks is asking the community to be part of creating a long-term facilities plan for the district. “Please, please join us in this process and invite others in your circle to join in,” said Distri...

Officials believe that a series of local break-ins and high-end auto thefts are connected to a much larger operation and part of a disturbing trend. Over the past several months, thieves have broken i...

Across the country, parents are urging children to further their education because earning a college degree is not only beneficial to an individual’s financial success but a community’s economic growt...

Editor’s Note: The following article is the sixth and final segment of a series by Eric Demchak about one of Marysville’s forgotten war heroes. The series describes the career of Col. Joseph G. Hawkin...

Plain City residents bothered by live music performances in the Uptown district are asking council how much noise is considered too much. Resident Mike Walter spoke during the most recent council meet...

This geophysical survey map of the area of the former Brown Cemetery conducted by the Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc. shows that radar and magnetics testing detected about 25 possible graves, but the ro...

Firefighters responded to the China Wok restaurant at 310 E. Fifth St. about 4:47 p.m., Tuesday, on a report of flames coming from the roof. Marysville Fire Chief Jay Riley said the fire, which was la...

Plain City Council recently upheld a decision from the village’s Design Review Board to reject the proposed deck, modeled from the photo above, at 150 W. Main Street. Council members told property own...

Paxton Bennett, 1, of Marysville, left, and Turner Davis, 2, of Indian Lake found a sure way to beat the recent scorching temperatures. The pair had a refreshing romp in the splash pad at Partners Par...

A variety of animals will be scurrying around Pastime Park during special events hosted by Plain City’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Ohio Nature Education will bring live bats, spiders, snakes ...

Investigators continue to seek answers in disappearance of Patti Adkins Lt. Jeff Stiers has been trying to answer the same question for the past 20 years: Where is Patti Adkins? He said it’s a simple ...

Marysville is looking at grants to fund a program that would provide public, on-demand transportation to residents using autonomous vehicles. The vehicles would most likely be mini-van style vehicles,...

How many council members can legally represent the Village of Richwood Council on a committee or board? Village Solicitor Alison Boggs said she is researching Ohio laws and Ohio Ethics Commission opin...

With a little more than a month to go, officials at the local elections board want potential candidates to know about the upcoming filing dates. “August 4 is coming soon and it will be here before you...

This is an aerial file photo of the Union County Joint Recreation District ball fields after being newly constructed. The UCJRD is now building a new bathroom and concessions facility at the pod of fi...

Honda today announced that its first new volume battery-electric vehicle will be named “Prologue.” In this morning’s announcement, Honda officials said Prologue is “signaling a new electrified era tha...

A former supervisor at a Rural King store is under indictment after allegedly forcing his juvenile subordinates to perform sex acts. Cameron Ford, 29, of 211 ½ Fifth St., has been indicted, charged wi...

Residents recall events from 1971 Fifty years ago Friday the homes of residents went dark about 7:40 p.m. when a tornado with 80 mph winds hit Marysville and most of southern Union County. The harsh w...

Editor’s Note: The following article is the fifth of a six-part series by Marysville resident Eric Demchak about one of Marysville’s forgotten war heroes. The series describes the career of Col. Josep...

Marysville Division of Police K-9 Officer Bear died Thursday, his ninth birthday, while on duty with his partner, Officer David Nist, left. Above, Nist helps escort Bear’s body into Underwood Funeral ...

Just months after being dismissed from her city position following a public, profanity-laced altercation, a local woman has been indicted for allegedly attacking her husband with a gun. The Union Coun...