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Marysville City Council Monday gave final approval to annexation and rezoning of 103 acres north of the city. In a 5-2 vote, with council members Henk Berbee and Donald Boerger voting in opposition, c...

At Monday’s meeting, Marysville City Council unanimously confirmed Deputy Chief Tony Brooks as the city’s next chief of police. At 5 p.m., Friday, Police Chief Floyd Golden will officially retire and ...

The Jonathan Alder Board of Education has approved a measure to require all students in the district to wear a mask. At Monday night’s meeting, the board decided to implement a mask mandate for studen...

Though not entirely positive, Plain City officials were receptive to feedback from residents regarding the village’s pilot parking program. During the village council meeting Monday, Murlay Drive resi...

The Richwood Planning Commission met with Aaron Smith, planner I/GIS tech of LUC Regional Planning Commission, on Monday to review a draft of changes to the village’s official zoning map. Richwood’s c...

Officer Dave Nist works with Marysville Division of Police’s new K-9 officer, Mido. Nist is currently training the dog which is still getting acclimated to his new handler, the department and the comm...

The Richwood Revitalization Committee has begun the application process for T-Mobile’s Hometown Grant Program. The T-Mobile Hometown Grant Program will provide funds for projects “to build, rebuild or...

The Jerome Township Division of Fire responded to a commercial structure fire on Industrial Parkway this morning. According to information from JTFD, callers across the street from RoJen Company, 8350...

Marysville joined with communities around America on Saturday to remember the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The city’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony, held at the Decker Fire St...

Pictured above is a Marysville school bus which collided with a pickup truck south of Plain City on U.S. 42 Friday night on its way back from the Hilliard Bradley football game. The 45 players and two...

Editor’s note: The following information is supplied by Wayne Dellinger, Union County Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources. ––– The fall armyworm has taken over many fields and lawns ...

While recently hiking the Barr trail to the top of the 14,115-foot Pike’s Peak, Marysville resident Kevin Behrens and his son, Berkley, 12, met former Plain City area resident James Yoder and his son,...

Marysville City Council is expected to move forward with a plan to purchase the Eagles building in the city’s uptown. At Monday night’s meeting, council will be asked to appropriate $542,000 to purcha...

Former Union County probation officer Keith F. Siegmann, right, smiles at defense attorney Paul Scarsella, following his sentencing hearing. Siegmann had an inappropriate relationship with a probation...

The City of Marysville will host a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at 9:50 a.m., Saturday, at Decker Fire Station, 16300 County Home Rd., Marysville. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist at...

After fielding repeated criticism from residents regarding a federal lawsuit, the Jerome Township Trustees heard a compliment Tuesday night. “I feel this was the right thing to do,” said resident Barr...

A local woman was treated and released after she fell off and was then runover by a boat in east Tennessee. Gabriella Wimmers of Marysville, was treated and released at Tennova North Medical Center fo...

Parents, students, board members and administrators took the opportunity to voice their thoughts on masks and quarantines Tuesday at a special meeting of the Fairbanks Board of Education. While all ag...

The Marysville Municipal Swimming Pool held its annual Dog Swim Tuesday night, signifying the close of the 2021 summer season. For a small fee, dog owners could let their animals swim in the pool from...

Jerome Township Trustees voted Tuesday to continue a public hearing surrounding a proposed zoning overlay that would be the first step to establishing a local Innovation District. If approved, the ove...

Marysville City Council will be asked to approve Deputy Chief Tony Brooks as the next chief of police. “I am really looking forward to this opportunity,” Brooks said this morning. City Manager Terry E...

In this family photograph from the 1980s, Marysville resident and first-time author Jane Chaffin is pictured with her 9-year-old son Andy, whose death inspired her to write “Andy’s Good News!” which w...

A local day care provider could be facing as much as a decade in prison after separate incidents led to fractured skulls for two children. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Tiffany Dawn Whitake...

With all eyes, and apparently most cameras, in central Ohio watching Friday night, Marysville handed previously unbeaten Pickerington North a 31-6 drubbing on the Panthers’ home field. In the above ph...

Spiking quarantine numbers have led the Marysville Board of Education to change course on its masking policy, put in place less than a month ago. The board voted Thursday night to enact mandatory mask...

The Richwood Fair kicked off this week, bolstered by exceptional weather. Above, Junior 4-Hers compete in the questionnaire portion of the swine skillathon at the pavilion at the Richwood Fair on Thur...

Plain City Council is in the process of amending several ordinances that are frequently commented upon by members of the public, including those surrounding noise regulation and Design Review Board. C...

Jerome Township will pay the Schottenstein Real Estate Group $40,000 as part of a public-private partnership to create a local Innovation District. Following an executive session during a recent speci...

Ethan Kise of FHS looks to avoid Cardington tacklers in this file photo. The Panthers will host Philo this evening. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) The coronavirus pandemic has brought two ...

George G. Thompson, 80, of Ostrander was pronounced deceased at Memorial Hospital after he was involved in a serious two-vehicle crash on Northwest Parkway Wednesday afternoon. Thompson was driving th...