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Community members are pictured attending the annual Voice from the Stone Veterans Day program Saturday in an image from the Union County Veteran’s Plaza Facebook page. The 2023 program honored Spanish...

As community members prepare for Thanksgiving gatherings, the Union County Health Department is offering free COVID test kits. The test kits can be reserved online at unioncountyCOVID.org/testing and ...

Production associates at Honda will see an 11% pay increase beginning in the new year. According to information from Honda, the increase will be effective for all production associates at U.S. facilit...

More than a year after the Jerome Township Trustees first heard a request from their fire chief to purchase an aerial ladder truck, they will do so. The board voted unanimously during their most recen...

The body camera footage from Marysville Police Officers involved in a chase of a murder suspect from Pennsylvania on Nov. 2 was recently released. A censored compilation of the footage surrounding the...

Dean Otworth, project engineer for the Mill Creek logjam cleanup, outlines the creek’s watershed area and the waterway itself, represented on the map as the red, centerline. Union County officials hel...

The Avalon Theatre, in conjunction with Impact60, announces the Ohio premiere of the award-winning short film “Brainstorms” directed by Julie Pacino, daughter of award winning actor Al Pacino. The pre...

Glen Stillings quickly enlisted in the Air Force at the start of World War II before he was captured by German forces and held as a Prisoner of War. His wife, Betty, at right, always had hope that he ...

Like many children, Walt Henderson didn’t know everything about his dad. Even as an adult, there was a lot about his father Walt didn’t know. Walt, who is active in the community and school district, ...

Next year, Marysville City Council will look very different and the land on Route 245 will look the same. According to unofficial results from the Union County Board of Elections, Marysville voters ap...

Only one of two levies passed for the Fairbanks school district and that may mean a return to the drawing board for the district. Superintendent Adham Schirg said even with one measure getting voted d...

According to unofficial results from the Union County Board of Elections, as of Wednesday morning, it appears as though Steven Wolfe, who ran as a write-in candidate, has defeated incumbent Aaron Carp...

Jerome Township residents decisively struck down a measure to implement limited home rule while electing a former trustee to a vacant seat on the board. Voters cast 3,218 ballots against limited home ...

Plain City Council will retain one of its incumbents and seat two new members following Tuesday’s election. Tyler Harriman, James Sintz and Aaron Lewis were the top three vote-getters in a field of si...

The field house at the Marysville High School was abuzz with activity Tuesday afternoon as polling location for several precincts in the city. Voters turned out in large numbers to decide the fate of ...

The Marysville Marching Band continued its streak of 14 years of superior “I” ratings at the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) state marching band finals on Sunday in Piqua. Pictured with the aw...

Avalon Theater officials have presented a plan to create a parklet in front of the theater at 121 S. Main St. The plan was first presented in 2020, but has been scaled back to occupy just two on-stree...

One of Union County’s overpasses may be closed longer than originally anticipated. During the regular meeting of county department heads Tuesday morning, Engineer Jeff Stauch told officials that the B...

A missing woman has been found and police officials are thanking the public. Marysville Police Chief Tony Brooks said he wanted to “thank the public for their assistance, the Ohio State Highway Patrol...

Steam rises from hot asphalt being put down on Elwood Avenue this morning. The nearly $2-million project includes asphalt resurfacing, concrete curb installation, concrete driveway approaches, concret...

City and school officials are working to revise a long-standing property tax sharing agreement. At Monday’s city council work session, officials presented a revision to the city’s Tax Increment Financ...

Plain City Council members voted last week to grant its remaining federal COVID relief dollars to a group of local businesses and a nonprofit after the pair proposed a plan to work together to meet ea...

Citizens Against Richwood Solar, pictured here in green t-shirts, were among the visitors to North Union High School last week for a public solar meeting. The citizen-led solar opposition group was am...

Traffic on West Fifth Street, near Emmaus Road, was stopped for a time Sunday evening as police investigated a woman allegedly “trying to stuff themselves into a trash bag while lying on the roadway.”...

North Union graduate Blake Taylor’s horse, Blossom, will be featured on a stamp from the U.S. Postal Service next year. The pair are pictured in the photo above. Below, Blossom is pictured second from...

A Pennsylvania man is dead and another man is in custody following a police chase Thursday that ended near 19906 Bear Swamp Road. The two men stopped in the area and fled on foot. The driver apparentl...

Union County law enforcement officials are still investigating the apparent murder-suicide involving a husband and wife in Leesburg Township. According to the Union County Coroner’s Office, Forrest “E...

An arrangement by owner Paul Grose with Dean and Darrison Cook gave residents of Bluebird Retirement Community a chance to take a ride on a combine Friday morning. Thirteen residents took turns sittin...

Law enforcement and first responders are pictured on Bear Swamp Road after an individual was reported dead following a vehicle pursuit. The male was reportedly a suspect in a murder in Pennsylvania an...

A husband and wife were found in the bed of their home on Kaiser Road Thursday afternoon, dead from gunshot wounds. According to Union County Coroner David Applegate the incident appears to be a murde...