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Council rejects medical waste facility
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By Mac Cordell 
November 15, 2024
A proposed medical waste sterilization facility in the city has been rejected. At its meeting Tuesday, Marysville City Council rejected a proposed change to the city’s zoning code to add the term “Bio...
North Lewisburg angles for $750K grant
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By Chad Williamson 
November 15, 2024
A community income survey completed in recent years could benefit North Lewisburg to the tune of $750,000. Mary Richards Oakley, a senior planner for Columbus-based Community Development Consultants, ...
View inside city Christmas tree
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By Mac Cordell 
November 15, 2024
Holiday decorations continue to fill Marysville’s Partners Park in the Uptown. The city Christmas tree was assembled and erected Friday and soon, Santa’s house will make its appearance in the park. Th...
P.C. revisiting sidewalk maintenance program
News, Plain City
By Michael Williamson 
November 15, 2024
Plain City is in the early stages of considering a sidewalk maintenance program that could mean repairs to some of the village’s pathways through town. At a council meeting earlier this week, Village ...
Holiday lights emerging
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By Mac Cordell 
November 15, 2024
Uptown Marysville is beginning to look like Christmas. As November approaches its midpoint, city officials are beginning to decorate sidewalks, streets and parks in preparation for the upcoming holida...
City, schools discussions continue
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Residents urge council to help find solution after levy failure
By Mac Cordell 
November 14, 2024
City officials want residents to know they are having conversations with school officials following the recent defeat of the school levy request. “Our community feels broken right now, and we need you...
Charges stem from argument involving pistol
Court News, News
By Mac Cordell 
November 14, 2024
A Richwood man could be facing more than a decade in prison after allegedly burglarizing a home with a handgun. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Christopher Michael Stevens, 24, whose court-li...
St. Paul honors veterans
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By Mac Cordell 
November 14, 2024
While there are fewer and fewer World War II veterans every day, a pair of them were in attendance at St. Paul Lutheran Church for the Golden Eagles Senior Ministry ceremony to honor veterans. Major G...
School coming down
News, Plain City
By Michael Williamson 
November 14, 2024
All that remained of Jonathan Alder’s former elementary school building at 340 W. Main St. Wednesday morning was the first floor facade and piles of rubble. School officials said the goal is to have t...
City puff, puff, passes weed ban
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After voting down ban on dispensaries, Marysville Council reverses course
By Mac Cordell 
November 13, 2024
One meeting after rejecting a proposed ban on recreational marijuana dispensaries in the city, Marysville City Council reconsidered the vote and this time voted to support the prohibition. In a 4-2 vo...
Jerome Fire Department to add truck
News, Plain City
By Michael Williamson 
November 13, 2024
Jerome Township’s fire truck fleet will soon be getting a little larger. The township trustees voted last week to move forward with the purchase of a new truck from Sutphen, the Dublin-based fire truc...
Union County Airport dealing with a pair of issues
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By Kyle Meddles 
November 13, 2024
The Union County Airport Authority is looking to fix water drainage and fuel line issues at the Airport. At the regular meeting of the Airport Authority Tuesday, Board President Steve Koenig said ther...
Last day set for SROs
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Marysville Exempted Village School District has given notice that it will end an agreement with the city to provide School Resource Officers in each of the buildings. The move was part of a contingency plan enacted last week when the school levy failed. In addition to providing security for the buildings, the officers served as ambassadors for the police department with community students and families. Above, Officer Jason Nichols, one of the community SROs, interacts with students. Officials have said the eight resource officers and the sergeant that oversees the program will be absorbed by the police department.
Nov. 27 will be end of the line for officers in schools after levy failure
By Mac Cordell 
November 13, 2024
City officials are looking at next steps for police officers assigned to the schools after the recent levy failure. “We knew this was a possibility and we have a plan we are going to be implementing,”...
Jerome farmland rezoned commercial
News, Plain City
By Mike Williamson 
November 13, 2024
After more than a year of discussions, Jerome Township approved a rezoning request for rural land in the northern part of the township. Some residents who live nearby said they are not necessarily opp...
Cymbal of perseverance
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By Aleksei Pavloff 
November 11, 2024
Despite being diagnosed with cancer, Marysville alumnus Grayson Niemi was able to return as a member of The Best Damn Band In The Land (TBDBITL). Learning he had testicular cancer, Niemi was still abl...
Bonnell has seen it all in his long military career
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By Kyle Meddles 
November 11, 2024
The first time that Ken Bonnell was wounded was in 1969, southeast of Saigon in Vietnam, while assisting a rescue operation of a downed helicopter that crashed into a small river. He boarded a navy fa...
U.C. interest earnings likely to pass $5M, set record
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By Michael Williamson 
November 8, 2024
Union County’s interest income could hit another record at the end of the year despite a likely dip in quarterly earnings starting in the fourth quarter. Treasurer Andrew Smarra told the commissioners...
Locals take part in Japanese TV show
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Shelly Detwiler, center left, and her husband, Paul, center right, sit with four generations of the Koike family in Japan, eating a feast featuring edamame. The Jerome Township couple, won a trip to appear on Japanese TV this summer and flew to Japan for a week where they learned about the cultivation and use of the Japanese soybean variety. (Photo submitted)
By Michael Williamson 
November 8, 2024
Agriculture in Union County might bring to mind corn, soybeans, hay and other traditional crops synonymous with midwestern farming. What might not come to mind is Japanese edamame, but that is precise...
City buys three historic properties
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Marysville Steel, Hometown Auto, Eufinger building under new ownership
By Mac Cordell 
November 7, 2024
The City of Marysville has purchased a trio of properties around town. In October, the city purchased the building at 120 S. Plum St., the former Hometown Auto Center, and the Marysville Steel site, a...
Early voting total tops Election Day numbers
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By Mac Cordell 
November 7, 2024
Early voting was strong in Union County. Officials said the strong early turnout made for a smooth Election Day. Election officials said this is the first time they can remember early voting topping t...
Richardson easily tops Verbus in Ohio House race
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By Mac Cordell 
November 7, 2024
Marysville’s Tracy Richardson has been reelected to a fourth term in the Ohio House of Representatives. Richardson, a Republican, defeated Democratic challenger Lesley Verbus in Tuesday’s election to ...
More than 78% of Union County voters cast ballots
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By Mac Cordell 
November 7, 2024
More than three-quarters of all eligible voters in Union County voted in Tuesday’s election and nearly half cast their ballot before Election Day. According to the Union County Board of Elections, 37,...
School levy gains ground, still fails
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Poor support in townships key to Marysville's 351 vote loss
By Chad Williamson 
November 7, 2024
The Marysville Schools operating levy widened its appeal, narrowed its margin from a defeat in 2023, but ultimately was still defeated by district voters Tuesday. “We did think it was going to be clos...
Voters pass UCBDD measure by slim margin
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By Michael Williamson 
November 6, 2024
The levy for the Union County Board of Developmental Disabilities passed Tuesday, ensuring funding for the Harold Lewis Center will continue as normal. Unofficial results from the Union County Board o...
Library issue receives voters’ blessing
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By Kyle Meddles 
November 6, 2024
The Marysville Public Library levy replacement passed in Tuesday’s election, which will provide much of the library’s revenue moving forward into 2025. The library is set to receive $1,691,800 annuall...
Plain City voters generous; pass three levies Tuesday
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By Michael Williamson 
November 6, 2024
All three levies on the ballot for the Village of Plain City passed Tuesday. Voters in both Union and Madison counties turned out in support of the village’s police, fire and library measures at the N...
Pumpkin drops held
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By From JT Staff Reports 
November 6, 2024
Marysville held a pair of Pumpkin Drops, one Sunday afternoon and one Monday afternoon, at Decker Fire Station. Residents could bring their own pumpkins to be dropped from the city’s ladder truck Sund...
Voters hit the polls
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By Chad Williamson 
November 6, 2024
Voter turnout in Union County and around the country was very strong for the 2024 election. While more than 40% of the county’s registered voters cast their ballots early, many polling locations, incl...
Programs impact school behavior issues
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By Michael Williamson 
November 5, 2024
Reports of youth behavioral issues in Union County are going down and the Mental Health and Recovery Board said it’s due in large part to the increase in prevention programs in schools. As part of the...