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After more than three months of construction, the new Main Street Bridge opened Tuesday night. Originally slated to open last month, inclement weather and other delays caused the project to be postpon...

The Fairbanks Board of Education bid farewell to its superintendent after a decade. Bob Humble announced he would be stepping down as superintendent in late June, with his last day being July 31, and ...

Through the typical summer, Union County skies host World War II era planes, hot air balloons, stunt planes and a variety of other aircraft. Low flying planes are a common sight recently around the fa...

Pictured is the Ballistic Armored Tactical Transport (BATT) that the City of Marysville is looking to buy from The Armored Group, LLC. According to a presentation from officials at Monday’s finance co...

As Dublin City School District takes action to deal with growth in the area, Jerome Township is also responding. The Dublin City School District Board of Education recently voted to put an initiative ...

Two families were able to find some quiet time to enjoy a walk in Schwartzkopf Park Sunday evening. The families said the weather was a bit hot for them, but they still wanted to see their children pl...

Plain City will be the place to be this weekend as the village celebrates its 200th birthday. The Bicentennial Celebration will take place July 19 through 21. The festivities will have the theme “Plai...

The owner of the Plain City Clock Tower Building says that workers making repairs to the clock, damaged the roof of her building. (File photo) While village officials said the outcome is still up the ...

The fugitive man accused of kidnapping, assaulting and raping a local woman has been captured. Early Sunday morning, Jason Guy Bender, 40, of Marysville, was arrested in Putnam County. Union County Sh...

Emily Rose Eppstein, 11, of Marysville practices her drawing skills Thursday afternoon. She was participating in the chalk art camp at the Houston House. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)

Eric Dobson, of SkyVista Aviation, cleans the Douglas SBD Dauntless housed at the Union County Airport Thursday morning. The plane left later that day. SkyVista hosted three historic planes from the C...

Emergency responders were busy this morning as a series of crashes closed portions of U.S. 33 for more than an hour. The first crash, pictured above, occurred when the driver went off the right side o...

The sound of steam power is filling Plain City this week as the Miami Valley Steam Threshers have returned to Pastime Park for the group’s annual show and reunion. The show opened today and will concl...

Union County is moving closer and closer to becoming a testing ground for unmanned aircraft. Fred Judson, director of DriveOhio’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Center in Springfield, was in Marysvil...

The image above shows the plan for a new football field for Bunsold Middle School on Route 4. The plan was approved by Marysville’s design review board on Wednesday. It will have a turf field, track f...

The VIllage of Milford Center is deliberating on its plans for a future village hall. At a meeting Monday night, the village council was still in the talks about whether they should purchase the old V...

A winner has been named for the All-Ohio Balloon Fest Guide cover contest. Mallory Huffman, an incoming seventh-grade student at Bunsold Middle School, was the winner out of 13 entries from Doug Welle...

Pictured is a room at Montgomery Family Dental with damage from last month’s flooding. Katie Montgomery, DDS, who owns the business, showed Marysville City Council photos of damage to her business at ...

Gov. John Kasich, center, in light blue shirt, joined officials from the State of Ohio, Transportation Research Center, JobsOhio, DriveOhio, The Ohio State University and the Ohio Department of Transp...

ILMJARV –––– Some residents have reported a bothersome book peddler knocking on doors and the Marysville Division of Police recommends residents ignore him if he gets too pushy. The salesman in questi...

Many residents of Marysville took the time to enjoy the favorable weather Sunday evening by participating in many outdoor activities. Eljer Park was busy, with residents deciding to catch up on their ...

City streets worker Noah Arbogast waters grass seed at American Legion Park this morning. He said the city planted the seed last week and is simply watering it to keep it growing. The grass planting i...

Some out-of-state visitors took advantage of Friday afternoon’s nice weather to play some basketball at Eljer Park. From left, Ellie Thetford, 13, Wesley Odom, 13, Jonas Mackey, 32, and Addison Graves...

United Way of Union County announced it has received $35,000 from the Cardinal Health Foundation’s Generation Rx Prescription Drug Misuse Prevention Education for Youth grant program. The grant was aw...

What started as a traffic stop over a missing license plate ended in felony drug charges for a man and woman coming through Union County. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Lillian Jane McWillia...

Construction crew members from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) applied asphalt to the North Main Street bridge Friday morning, with a goal of finishing the paving work by the end of the d...

City of Marysville Law Director Tim Aslaner spends a lot of time representing the city in court. Most of that is not to fight litigious parties or disgruntled residents, but to collect delinquent inco...

Landynn Felzke, 3, of Magnetic Springs, plays at the Marysville municipal pool in American Legion Park Thursday. According to the city’s website, the pool is open every day from noon to 8 p.m. The poo...

A Marysville man could be facing prison time for an alleged sexual relationship with a teenage girl. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Zachary Michael Olson, 20, of 109 Northcrest Dr., Marysvil...

Plain City has hired an interim administrator to run the village through the end of the year. At a special meeting this week, village council approved the hiring of Nathan E. Cahill. Council gave him ...