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A local death, unsolved for more than three decades is getting a second look, by a new set of eyes. In June, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office asked the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal I...

The Union County Airport Authority approved the lease for construction of a privately funded box hangar, the first of its kind at the airport. At the regular meeting on Tuesday, Woolpert Consulting di...

Pictured above are Emerson Cochran, left, and Caroline Wilson who recently took part in the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in Seattle. (Photo submitted)...

An agreement with The Silos at Marysville may herald good news for the city’s Christmas Star and other projects in the community. Marysville City Council is in the process of approving an agreement wi...

Union County Board of Developmental Disabilities has a levy on the ballot this November and if it fails, it could mean a stoppage in funding for the Harold Lewis Center. Board officials are looking at...

The bills for deferred maintenance in North Lewisburg are coming due and the residents might feel the sting. At a Tuesday meeting, village officials discussed a trio of topics that would all result in...

Just as Plain City officials approved a policy that will guide when and how they offer economic development incentives, they took a step toward approving the village’s first ever Tax Increment Financi...

Scott Weeks, right, and his wife, Loretta, left, along with their son, Chris, center, own and operate Weeks Plumbing. The local company, which specializes in both new construction pluming and plumbing...

All land uses related to the growth or sale of marijuana will be prohibited in Jerome Township temporarily, although the trustees did not set a definite time limit on the prohibition. At its most rece...

Richwood Council is reconsidering its conversation about demolishing the Opera House. At Monday evening’s regular council meeting, concerned locals and members of the Opera House Committee turned up t...

For a third meeting, a group of local residents was at Marysville’s City Council meeting asking the group to respond to a series of comments member Mark’s Reams wife, and others, have made. This time,...

Jerome Township and Union County officials approved a tax abatement for a developer planning to build a 24,000-square foot speculative building in the township. Union County/Marysville Economic Develo...

A Marysville woman is in jail in Indiana after allegedly stabbing a woman multiple times. Kaya G. Lewis, 20, of 722 Wedgewood Drive, has been charged with one count each of aggravated battery and batt...

Following the state legislature’s passage of a new cell phone law for schools, Jonathan Alder is looking at how it will update its own policy to follow state guidelines. The board of education discuss...

The conceptual plans illustrated above show a proposed design from Como Development and OutdoorFX to create several buildings of flex space for light industrial uses. The road pictured at far left is ...

Officials from the Union County Health Department and law enforcement agencies are encouraging community members to stay safe this holiday weekend by driving sober or getting a ride home. "We want to ...

A Marysville woman is dead after taking her own life Tuesday. Elizabeth Kolze, an investigator with the Union County Coroner’s Office, confirmed that a 20-year-old Marysville woman was declared dead a...

Marysville City Council is once again taking up the idea of inspecting rental homes. At Monday night’s city council work session, Zoning Inspector Zach Andrews presented a plan to inspect rental homes...

The staff at the Marysville Journal-Tribune is up for a record-setting 13 honors in the Ohio Associated Press newspaper awards later this month. That number is five more than the newspaper’s previous ...

Connolly Construction, led by second-generation owner, Phillip Connolly, holds a groundbreaking for Green Pastures in the early 1990s. (Photo submitted) -- Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series...

Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the state’s Capital Budget bill. The bill contains more than $13 million for Union County entities, including: $12.5 million to the Transportation Research ...

Michael Tua, 49, of Marysville, died Sunday as a result of injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 33. (Photo submitted) -- A Marysville man is dead following a two-vehicle crash Sunday o...

Triad officials are preparing to place a renewal of the district’s existing levy on the ballot in November. At the Board of Education meeting Thursday, members voted unanimously to request the certifi...

Pictured above is a da Vinci Robotic Surgical System like the one being leased by Memorial Hospital. The robot will allow surgeries to be performed with smaller incisions, allowing shorter recovery ti...

Communities throughout the county will offer residents a variety of ways to celebrate Fourth of July, from parades to fireworks shows. Marysville The Marysville Independence Day Parade steps off at 10...

Plain City Public Library will be asking for a levy renewal this fall, a little earlier in its usual five-year cycle. Chris Long, the library director, said going earlier ensures there will be time to...

Memorial Health will be getting into the retail pharmacy business. The health system has agreed to purchase Dave’s Pharmacy from Cardinal Health, hoping for a variety of benefits by expanding into a n...

Officials held a ribbon cutting Friday for the Automotive and Mobility Innovation Center (AMIC), 1000 Innovation Way. The technology incubator will occupy about 18,000 square feet of a larger building...

Lt. Tom Jaskiewicz, at right, is pictured with Plain City Police Department Chief Dale McKee. The police department and council recently celebrated Jaskiewicz’s 25th anniversary of full-time service w...

As work on U.S. 33 is coming to a conclusion for this year, local officials are planning for a series of future infrastructure improvements. Over the next couple of years, several bridges in the commu...