Union County officials are delaying the start of one plan, in hopes of getting another finished first. Dave Gulden, director of the Logan-Union-Champaign Regional Planning Commission, recently spoke t...

Various communities in an around Union County celebrated the July Fourth holiday Tuesday. Above, Jennifer Filipovic holds her son, Colton, as they watch Marysville’s fireworks display Tuesday night. T...

BEESON –––– The Tolles Career and Technical Center Board of Education approved the hiring of Emmy Beeson as the district’s new superintendent during their regular meeting Thursday. Beeson begins her t...

Because of Independence Day, July 4, the Marysville Journal-Tribune will not publish a newspaper Saturday, July 1 - Tuesday, July 4 and the office will be closed. The business will resume normal offic...

When John Dixon gave law enforcement dispatchers the wrong address, it may have cost him his life. Dixon was attacked in the early morning hours of May 27, at his home at 627 E. Fourth St. He stopped ...

A jury has found First Energy/Ohio Edison negligent and awarded a Union County woman more than $27 million. Following nine days of trial, the jury found in favor of Lisa Jones awarding her $27.6 milli...

Road construction on Scotts Lawn Road will have a “profound impact” on the attendees of the All Ohio Balloon Fest this August, Union County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Mike Justice said. Traffic coming from ...

Local communities will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday with fireworks and other festivities. Here are the activities happening in the area on July 4: -A Fourth of July Parade will start at 10 a....

Pictured above is the front of the temporary Journal-Tribune office at 410 N. Main St. The windows as well as the contents of the office were sucked out by the tornado and strewn along Main Street. Th...

Melissa Ackison spent her birthday at the White House discussing the impact of the Affordable Care Act on her family. When Vice President Mike Pence learned it was her birthday, he presented her with ...

On June 10, at the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Headquarters on North Maple Street, the Union County Amateur Radio Club hosted a tailgate Trunkfest for people selling radio equipment. This is one...

Travis Brake of Milford Center competed in Wednesday’s MRGA Wendy’s Junior Classic golf tournament. The event was held at the Liberty Hills Golf Club in Bellefontaine. Brake was second in the boys 13-...

The city is looking to adopt a new program that would give the public easier access to viewing city expenditures. The website, run by the Ohio Treasurer’s Office, is ohiocheckbook.com. It’s free for m...

The Fairbanks Board of Education voted to have Memorial Hospital be its provider of drug testing for student athletes for the 2017-2018 school year. In May, a representative from Sports Safe Testing S...

The Union County Airport Authority (UCAA) is getting more than $300,000 in funding this year to make the airport safer. In a press release Tuesday, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown announced the airport wou...

The Union County Sheriff’s office investigated a single-vehicle, rollover crash in the 16000-block of Myers Road at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday that sent the driver to the hospital. The driver of a 2006 Buick R...

Three blue eggs sit in a robin next at a home on West Seventh Street Tuesday evening. Robins typically lay three to five eggs which hatch in about 14 days. The baby birds then take another two weeks t...

Before Monday night’s meeting ended, Richwood Village councilman Von Beal asked village solicitor Alison Boggs “How long does it take to get a certified delinquent property foreclosed, sold at sheriff...

Todd Michael Lane was arraigned this morning in Union County Common Pleas Courtroom 2. Lane is charged with the murder of John Dixon, May 27. Defense attorney Cliff Valentine said his client is not gu...

A driver remains hospitalized and 300 homes were without power Monday night, as a result of a single-vehicle injury crash in Liberty Township. The accident scene is shown at right in a photo from the ...

The city hopes to install a multi-use path, shown in the above preliminary sketch, along West Fifth Street to increase connectivity in the area, and to give it a new look. While they haven’t applied f...

Jerome Township officials are discussing the future of fire protection in Jerome Township. Interim Fire Chief Brian Bemiller has said the fire station has several maintenance needs including replacing...

Rich Weiskircher, left, and Ray Fleming, both of Marysville, make use of the city’s new pickleball courts at Eljer Park this morning. Both said they often play pickleball at the aYMCA, but have come t...

With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, local communities are preparing for the celebrations. Here are the Independence Day activities taking place in the area: Marysville: The American Legion wi...

Area officials probe legal pot issues as end of moratorium looms The City of Marysville plans to introduce an ordinance Monday that would prohibit the cultivation, processing and sale of marijuana wit...

Red Cross worker Craig Fry, right, prepares Benny Rose, of Marion, to donate blood at Friday’s Red Cross blood drive at the Marysville Public Library. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., residents were able to sh...

Change can often bring some misunderstandings, as Memorial Health is learning as it expands its brand in Richwood. On Wednesday, the health system recently held an open house for its new facility at 1...

Union County Sheriff’s deputies, along with units from Jerome Township and Pleasant Valley Fire Departments, responded to a two-vehicle injury crash on U.S. 42 near Wells Road Thursday at 2:03 p.m. Th...

Many people and animals in Union County enjoyed the warm weather Thursday afternoon. Above, a deer watched as runners, joggers, bikers and walkers used the Jim Simmons Trail in Marysville. Cooler temp...

The Marysville Exempted Village School District made a selection of five candidates for the role of Edgewood Elementary School’s new principal. Among the selected candidates are Thomas Holdren, Jamie ...