New
March 26, 2026
A new Union County Sheriff’s Office facility is being planned for the open land on County-Home Road just west of the county Joint Recreation District on County-Home Road, shown above at right. The building will sit between the City of Marysville’s Decker Station 271, shown at bottom-left and the Union County Engineer’s Operations Facility at the top-left. (Graphic submitted)

New $7M UCSO facility eyed

 

By Michael Williamson, Richwood Gazette

Union County is working on a new facility that will both expand and consolidate the various locations currently used by the sheriff’s office.

The deadline for architecture firms to submit a statement of qualifications to work on the project ended last week. Once a firm is selected, they will move onto the design phase.

“Basically we’re looking for resumes from firms, showing what types of projects they’ve worked on that might be similar to this and what their company does,” County Administrator Bill Narducci said. “Then we’ll put a team together to start reviewing the proposals.”

Narducci said the county is looking at an …

Read this entire article as it appeared in print in our eEdition

LATEST NEWS
Route 37 northbound closes
Local News
ODOT’s Route 37 culvert replacement work began between Richwood and Essex on Monday, marking the start of the 60-day closure of the northern sec- tion...
May 11, 2026
RW Council to join county in paving bid
Local News
Richwood Council agreed to piggyback with the county and put forward $300,000 for paving work for village streets this year. At a recent meeting of th...
May 7, 2026
Substitute trees
Local News
A group of fifth graders from North Union Elementary School worked to plant buckeye, red maple and red oak trees at Richwood Lake Park last week. The ...
May 7, 2026
Richwood
Community
Life Line Screening The Magnetic-Pharisburg United Methodist Church will host a Life Line Screening event on June 3, 2026. The screening will be held ...
May 7, 2026