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The Fredericktown United Methodist Church, located at 123 Columbus Road, will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in September with activities during the Tomato Show, a Sunday dinner, and fundraising for its $2.4 million building project.

Should golf carts be allowed to operate on the streets of Mount Vernon?

For most 12-year-olds, tractors are of little interest; but 4-H’er Kassidy Brumme is not like most 12-year-olds.

The Mount Vernon Fire Department has received a grant from the Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation to help reduce firefighter exposure to toxic or cancer-causing compounds.

Four out of five bids for a river bank stabilization project came in lower than estimated, which could spell savings for the county.

A Mount Vernon woman who received drugs that were sneaked into the Knox County Jail was sentenced to prison Tuesday in Knox County Common Pleas Court.

Kokosing Construction began milling and paving U.S. 36 through the east end of Mount Vernon Wednesday night.

The associate degree nursing program at Central Ohio Technical College recently received accreditation from the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation, making it the first dual accredited program in the state. The program already holds full accreditation through the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

A Columbus man was charged by the grand jury with picking up cellphones fraudulently ordered and delivered to unoccupied Knox County residences.

Last November, when 12-year-old Emma Dean heard the diagnosis Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), a common birth defect that causes a hole in the wall of the heart, the only thing she was worried about was making it to her cheer competition.

Rural King will open its new Mount Vernon store in the old Kmart location in the Knox Village Square on Coshocton Avenue at 7 a.m. Saturday.

Several roads will be down to single-lane traffic for paving in downtown Fredericktown.

Nearly 200 veterans gathered Saturday for the annual Veterans’ Picnic, sponsored by American Legion Post 136, with the partnership of the Veterans’ Service Office.