News
November 6, 2017

Many local boards have more seats than candidates

By Mac Cordell

Tuesday, voters around the county will go to the polls to select leaders for their villages, townships and school boards.
In some areas however, the choice has already been made. A look at ballots in some of the county’s smaller communities reveals that many races have more open positions than cand...

JA buys 25 acres in village
Education, News, Plain City News
Jonathan Alder officials are in contract with a property owner for three parcels of land, shown above outlined in yellow, located just behind Plain City Elementary School. The newly acquired land totals just over 25 acres with two larger parcels to the north and south and a third narrow strip going through the center. (Graphic submitted)
$1M purchase will give district site for expansion
By Michael Williamson 
January 20, 2026
Jonathan Alder is expanding the district’s footprint in Plain City. Board of education members approved a resolution recently to enter into a contract to purchase land just behind Plain City Elementar...
NU board debates buying driver’s ed car
Education, News
By Kyle Meddles 
January 20, 2026
North Union’s Board of Education debated a request to buy a new car for the district’s driver education programming. At the regular meeting of the board of education on Monday, Superintendent Justin U...
McIntosh tapped to fill school board seat
Education, Local News, Marysville School Board, ...
By Chad Williamson 
January 20, 2026
A parent with children in the Marysville School District has been selected to fill the open Marysville Board of Education seat. Picked from a group of nine applicants, Erin McIntosh will fill the seat...
JA buys 25 acres in village
Education, News, Plain City News
Jonathan Alder officials are in contract with a property owner for three parcels of land, shown above outlined in yellow, located just behind Plain City Elementary School. The newly acquired land totals just over 25 acres with two larger parcels to the north and south and a third narrow strip going through the center. (Graphic submitted)
$1M purchase will give district site for expansion
By Michael Williamson 
January 20, 2026
Jonathan Alder is expanding the district’s footprint in Plain City. Board of education members approved a resolution recently to enter into a contract to purchase land just behind Plain City Elementar...
NU board debates buying driver’s ed car
Education, News
By Kyle Meddles 
January 20, 2026
North Union’s Board of Education debated a request to buy a new car for the district’s driver education programming. At the regular meeting of the board of education on Monday, Superintendent Justin U...
McIntosh tapped to fill school board seat
Education, Local News, Marysville School Board, ...
By Chad Williamson 
January 20, 2026
A parent with children in the Marysville School District has been selected to fill the open Marysville Board of Education seat. Picked from a group of nine applicants, Erin McIntosh will fill the seat...
MHS, JA boys grapplers compete at Maumee
Sports
Marysville’s Griffen Beery (blue) scrambles with Sheridan’s Luke Skinner (white) during a match at 150 pounds. The competition came during the Maumee Classic. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)
By Aleksei Pavloff 
January 20, 2026
Marysville and Jonathan Alder were among the more than 60 schools represented in this year’s edition of the Maumee Bay Classic boys wrestling tournament. The tournament, as it has been, was hosted by ...
NU grapplers tie for fourth at Wasserbeck; Triad wrestler wins
Sports
Triad’s Garret Bollack (top) sprawls on Pleasant’s Aaron Hibar (bottom) during the finals match at 150 pounds at the Don Wasserbeck Classic. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)
By Bob Putman 
January 20, 2026
It was not quite the finish North Union wrestling coach Garret Andrews was looking for Saturday at the Don Wasserbeck Classic wrestling tournament. “We finished fourth overall and that is an improveme...
Jonathan Alder girls cagers top Tecumseh in OT
Sports
Jonathan Alder freshman Ellioitt Hecht goes up for two of her team-high 20 points on Saturday against Tecumseh. JA won the game in overtime. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller)
By Tim Miller 
January 20, 2026
A pair of rebuilding girls basketball teams tangled Saturday afternoon in the Jonathan Alder High School gym. Both the JA Lady Pioneers and Arrows from Tecumseh faced off in the Central Buckeye Confer...