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Local communities will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday with fireworks and other festivities. Here are the activities happening in the area on July 4: -A Fourth of July Parade will start at 10 a....

Pictured above is the front of the temporary Journal-Tribune office at 410 N. Main St. The windows as well as the contents of the office were sucked out by the tornado and strewn along Main Street. Th...

Melissa Ackison spent her birthday at the White House discussing the impact of the Affordable Care Act on her family. When Vice President Mike Pence learned it was her birthday, he presented her with ...

On June 10, at the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Headquarters on North Maple Street, the Union County Amateur Radio Club hosted a tailgate Trunkfest for people selling radio equipment. This is one...

Travis Brake of Milford Center competed in Wednesday’s MRGA Wendy’s Junior Classic golf tournament. The event was held at the Liberty Hills Golf Club in Bellefontaine. Brake was second in the boys 13-...

The city is looking to adopt a new program that would give the public easier access to viewing city expenditures. The website, run by the Ohio Treasurer’s Office, is ohiocheckbook.com. It’s free for m...

The Fairbanks Board of Education voted to have Memorial Hospital be its provider of drug testing for student athletes for the 2017-2018 school year. In May, a representative from Sports Safe Testing S...

The Union County Airport Authority (UCAA) is getting more than $300,000 in funding this year to make the airport safer. In a press release Tuesday, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown announced the airport wou...

The Union County Sheriff’s office investigated a single-vehicle, rollover crash in the 16000-block of Myers Road at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday that sent the driver to the hospital. The driver of a 2006 Buick R...

Three blue eggs sit in a robin next at a home on West Seventh Street Tuesday evening. Robins typically lay three to five eggs which hatch in about 14 days. The baby birds then take another two weeks t...

Before Monday night’s meeting ended, Richwood Village councilman Von Beal asked village solicitor Alison Boggs “How long does it take to get a certified delinquent property foreclosed, sold at sheriff...

Todd Michael Lane was arraigned this morning in Union County Common Pleas Courtroom 2. Lane is charged with the murder of John Dixon, May 27. Defense attorney Cliff Valentine said his client is not gu...

A driver remains hospitalized and 300 homes were without power Monday night, as a result of a single-vehicle injury crash in Liberty Township. The accident scene is shown at right in a photo from the ...

The city hopes to install a multi-use path, shown in the above preliminary sketch, along West Fifth Street to increase connectivity in the area, and to give it a new look. While they haven’t applied f...

Jerome Township officials are discussing the future of fire protection in Jerome Township. Interim Fire Chief Brian Bemiller has said the fire station has several maintenance needs including replacing...

Rich Weiskircher, left, and Ray Fleming, both of Marysville, make use of the city’s new pickleball courts at Eljer Park this morning. Both said they often play pickleball at the aYMCA, but have come t...

With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, local communities are preparing for the celebrations. Here are the Independence Day activities taking place in the area: Marysville: The American Legion wi...

Area officials probe legal pot issues as end of moratorium looms The City of Marysville plans to introduce an ordinance Monday that would prohibit the cultivation, processing and sale of marijuana wit...

Red Cross worker Craig Fry, right, prepares Benny Rose, of Marion, to donate blood at Friday’s Red Cross blood drive at the Marysville Public Library. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., residents were able to sh...

Change can often bring some misunderstandings, as Memorial Health is learning as it expands its brand in Richwood. On Wednesday, the health system recently held an open house for its new facility at 1...

Union County Sheriff’s deputies, along with units from Jerome Township and Pleasant Valley Fire Departments, responded to a two-vehicle injury crash on U.S. 42 near Wells Road Thursday at 2:03 p.m. Th...

Many people and animals in Union County enjoyed the warm weather Thursday afternoon. Above, a deer watched as runners, joggers, bikers and walkers used the Jim Simmons Trail in Marysville. Cooler temp...

The Marysville Exempted Village School District made a selection of five candidates for the role of Edgewood Elementary School’s new principal. Among the selected candidates are Thomas Holdren, Jamie ...

A portion of Unionville Road will be closed through early October. Earlier this week, renovation began on the concrete bridge over Big Darby Creek. Union County Engineer Jeff Stauch said the bridge in...

While the new trail through MacIvor Woods was the centerpiece at Tuesday’s Parks and Rec Commission meeting, officials also discussed a few other possible projects. These projects come after the resul...

After a nearly six-month process, Doug Stewart has been named chief of the Jerome Township Fire Department. He will begin July 1. Pictured above are, from left Trustee Ron Rhodes, Stewart, Trustee C.J...

Union County Health Department (UCHD) officials are looking at ways to improve septic system assessments. At Wednesday’s health department meeting, it was noted at the agency has compiled feedback fro...

Marysville Division of Police investigated a four-vehicle injury crash about noon Wednesday on Industrial Parkway. According to police, Danielle M. Schrienk, 17, of 14007 Sycamore Dr., Marysville, was...

Honda announced Tuesday it would give a $1-million gift to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to establish the Honda Center for Gait Analysis and Mobility Enhancement. Honda’s robot, ASIMO (Advanced Step ...

An early plan for a trail on the McIvor Woods property presented at Tuesday night’s Parks and Recreation Commission meeting shows gravel trails snaking through the nature preserve. Marysville Public S...