The City of Marysville is doing away with a fee for nearly every business in the city. At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Marysville Finance Committee, officials announced a plan to eliminate a fire pr...

Union County Commissioner Steve Robinson welcomes Union County residents to a special session Tuesday, expressing surprise at the amount of local individuals who came to share their opinions about a p...

An agreement in principle has been reached to bring Moeller Brew Barn, a restaurant and brewery, to the clock tower building in Plain City, 101 S. Chillicothe St. The Ohio-based business began with a ...

North Lewisburg Village Council met in special session Tuesday night to approve its next village administrator. The board voted 5-0 to approve North Lewisburg Realtor Todd Freyhof to the position. Fre...

Heavy rains this week resulted in flooding in some areas throughout the county. On Hill Road, in Jerome Township, some property owners saw high levels of water in wooded areas in front of their homes....

Jerome Township’s first Panama Pete Ice Drop has come to a close. Township officials said they were inspired by the Village of Richwood, which hosts an ice drop challenge with a tree to raise funds fo...

The City of Marysville is making improvements to an alley in the Uptown, hoping it starts a trend. Marysville will renovate the north-south alley between Fifth and Sixth streets and the east-west alle...

The North Union Board of Education is expected to approve a resolution for a 2022-23 calendar at the regular meeting in March. During its meeting on Monday, the board discussed the favored calendar th...

Holbrook & Manter, CPAs, recently purchased the Conrad, Leibold, Woerner & Company accounting practice, but the entire CLW team will continue to operate from the office on West Sixth Street. “Througho...

The City of Marysville recently took a donation of more than 112 acres along U.S. 33, between Waldo Road and Route 4. Officials expect to use the land to create a new city park. (Graphic submitted) Ma...

Officials with Lightsource bp have announced plans to develop a solar farm in Union and Logan counties. According to information from Lightsource bp, the company intends to construct a 100-megawatt so...

Pictured above is the Marysville Marching Band as it performs in a parade at Disney World in Orlando Monday. The band and choir left for Orlando on Friday and will begin the trip home Tuesday night. B...

Columbia Gas is planning to construct a 4.78-mile natural gas pipeline, known as the Marysville Connector, beginning at Watkins-California Road between U.S. 42 and Derio Road and ending on Industrial ...

By Chad Williamson and Kayleen Petrovia, Area school districts continue to make moves to deal with the impact of a substitute teacher shortage blanketing most of central Ohio. Triad has announced a bi...

Pictured above in Memorial Hospital’s new Level II Cardiac Catheterization Lab are, from left to right, in the front row, Tom Blincoe, Executive Director of Outreach and Engagement and the Ohio State ...

The Marysville Board of Education is being forced to look into the sun. While solar farms in Union County have generated a great deal of discussion in the North Union School District, Marysville decis...

Students at Triad are reaping the benefits of expanded reading intervention services, while educators and administrators are hoping the grant-funded program can stay in place as long as possible. Chie...

Fairbanks FCCLA also recently completed a “distracted driving” simulation with students at the High School. The group collaborated with the Union County Sheriff’s Office to show teenagers the dangers ...

Officials at the Union County Health Department are working to share their enthusiasm for the outdoor recreational opportunities in the area. Tamisha Matus, Creating Healthy Communities coordinator at...

The man who took his underage girlfriend to Florida will serve an additional 10 months in prison. In January, Rylan Lester John Ayers, 20, of 1480 U.S. 36, lot 54, pleaded guilty to one count of inter...

Jerome Township is one step closer to building a second fire station. The trustees unanimously accepted a bid for the construction of Station 211 during their meeting Tuesday. “It’ll be a wonderful th...

Plain City Council members recently heard the first reading of an ordinance that would rezone a nearly 80-acre property to allow for Phase II of the Madison Meadows residential development, depicted a...

Cub Scout Pack 90 led council and residents in the Pledge of Allegiance during Plain City’s most recent council meeting. Plain City Mayor Jody Carney, pictured at center, also presented the pack with ...

The City of Marysville is preparing its street paving program for the summer of 2022. Officials assign a rating to each street in the city. Based on the rating as well as traffic volume and price, off...

Village of Richwood Council member Reddy Brown proposed ways the village could impose restrictions on livestock within the village during the meeting on Monday. Referencing an ordinance from Brewster,...

A pair of Journal-Tribune staffers have been named state finalists in the Ohio Associated Press’ 2021 Newspaper Award. Reporter Kayleen Petrovia has been named a finalist in two writing categories whi...

A Richwood man has been indicted, charged with downloading child pornography. The Union County Grand Jury has indicted Tylor Anthony Lemaster, 31, of 100 S. Fulton St. Lemaster is charged with one cou...

The Central Ohio Rural Planning Organization (CORPO) has released a list of proposed transportation projects to collectively receive $943,737 in federal funds during state fiscal years 2022-2023 and a...

City workers are working to repair potholes around the community. Public Service Director Jeremy Hoyt said last week’s rain, followed by freezing temperatures was “the perfect storm” to create pothole...

A North Union High School counselor raised concerns about scheduling conflicts between the high school calendar and Tri-Rivers Career Center’s and Marion Tech’s calendars at a North Union Board of Edu...