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A Marysville High School history teacher plans to introduce George Washington in his lessons for this semester. Although Washington is certainly taught often in schools, Luke Sundermeier, a history te...

Runners launch from the start line of the All Ohio Ballon Fest 5k Run at Mill Valley Central Park Friday evening. Nearly 80 participants competed in the event, which followed the Jim Simmons trail bef...

BAKER –––– A Marysville man could be facing more than three years in prison after allegedly attacking a woman and then turning on a police officer who came to help. The Union County Grand Jury has ind...

Union County officials have changed the county employee handbook to bring it into compliance with state gun laws. In March, the state legislature made changes to Ohio’s concealed carry weapons law. Th...

Steve Burns, left, and Janis Phillipson, right, both of Marysville, water flowers on Fifth Street this morning despite the rain that came through the city the night before. The Union County Board of D...

Contractors do not believe they will be able to meet the approaching deadline to have fiber from Dublin to East Liberty operational. At Wednesday’s U.S. 33 Council of Governments (CoG) meeting, Shane ...

Tera Jurrens poses with Impulse, a service dog, at Partner’s Park. Jurrens is the owner of Freedom Paws Assistance Dogs, which trains dogs to be a service to those with physical and emotional disabili...

A work crew from WOW! cable is shown installing lines along Fawnbrook Drive in Mill Valley recently. After falling behind its installation timeline, WOW! crews now appear to be back on track to finish...

Tourism service put on hold after one year Marysville and Union County tourism and economic development officials are trying to determine the fate of the city’s Uptown Trolley Service. “Right now, we ...

With the filing date approaching, officials at the Union County Board of Elections want residents to know it is not too late to be on the Nov. 7 ballot. The filing deadline for all positions is 4 p.m....

City officials say Mill Creek Park, which contains four ball fields, space for soccer and the Jim Simmons Trail, is often confused with the neighboring Schwartzkopf Park. The city hopes to rectify tha...

Clint Black, pictured above, will entertain the crowd Thursday, Aug. 10, at the All Ohio Balloon Fest. Black will be playing some of his 22 number-one hits, as well as new songs. (Photo submitted) –––...

Kim Beck’s dog, Traveler, peaks his head through a tunnel at Marysville’s Bark Park on Tuesday morning. Traveler is a 10-month-old whippet. Beck said Traveler is the most outgoing of her two whippets....

Plain City has started the process of contracting with the City of Columbus for water and sewer services. At a work session meeting Monday, the village council voted to have Village Administrator Kevi...

Recently, Marysville Journal-Tribune employee Ann Santos went outside her home in Marysville to pull out some weeds from her flower bed when she discovered a large butterfly, pictured above, hanging a...

On Friday at 2:14 p.m., a 1982 Honda Goldwing motorcycle was involved in a crash on Route 4, between Scott Farms Boulevard and County Home Road. According to the Marysville Police Department, the bike...

This year, many of the exhibitors at the Union County Fair did not have the opportunity to show their animal one last time. Late Friday night, Dr. Tony Forshey of the Ohio Department of Agriculture as...

Members of the Union County legal community are mourning the death of one of their own this morning. Former Union County Common Pleas Judge Richard Eugene Parrott, 83, of Marysville died unexpectedly ...

Police are looking for a white male wearing a plaid shirt and dark shorts, pictured above in a surveillance camera image, who they believe broke into Dave’s Pharmacy early Monday morning. Officials do...

The 2017 Union County Fair’s Grand Champion market steer, owned by Brice Phelps, right, sold for $14,000 at Saturday’s Junior Fair Livestock sale. Buyers included Sam Jackson Auto Body Repairs, JD Equ...

Don’t get worried if your day gets a bit darker on Aug. 21, because that’s just the rare event of a solar eclipse you’re witnessing. Though solar eclipses happen every few years, they are not always v...

Local law enforcement officials are taking a hard line against those who allow others to overdose on drugs. “Tragically, people die from an overdose of illicit narcotics,” Union County Prosecutor Dave...

Dorothy Rees, 18, above, started a project in 2016 collecting chickens and turkeys at the Union County Fair. Rees has the birds processed and donated to food pantries around Union County. In her first...

The commonly held image of a millennial is an annoyed twenty-something with their face buried in a smartphone, tablet or computer. A recent study by the Pew Research Center, however, found something t...

The bright lights of rides and food vendors illuminate the Union County Fairgrounds Thursday evening. Events tonight include the tractor pull at 7 p.m. and a Showman of Showman Exhibition at 7:30 p.m....

Girls from North Union High School volley the ball back-and-forth during a scrimmage session at the Lady Cats summer volleyball camp. The camp was offered to get athletes from seniors to freshmen out ...

Marysville officials say Plain City’s recommendation to use Columbus water and sewer services over Marysville is not unexpected. In an e-mail to Mayor J.R. Rausch and city officials, Marysville Direct...

Country crooner Country singer Luke Combs is pictured above as he played to a large crowd at the Union County Fair Wednesday night. Concertgoers filled the grandstands while even more were standing on...

According to the Marysville Police Department, at around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, a black 2012 Chevrolet Cruise, driven by Suzanne Snyder, 35, of Marysville, drove off the road in the area of 510 W. Fourth ...

Above, Kiley Penrod, 8, chows down in the watermelon eating contest at the Union County Fair. The Tuesday evening contest was the first of its kind at the fair. There were three age groups: adults, te...