City of Mount Vernon

Khara Strum, a conservation professional with deep ties to Ohio and experience with agricultural land protection, will become the next director of the Philander Chase Conservancy, starting July 18. She succeeds the conservancy’s longtime director Lisa Schott, Kenyon Class of 1980, who retires on June 30.

More than 47.9 million Americans, including a record 2.2 million Ohioans, will travel this Independence Day holiday weekend (June 30 – July 4). This is an increase of 3.7% nationally, and 3.8% for Ohio.

Spikeball has been making waves over the past decade after the game was featured on the television show “Shark Tank” in 2015, but the history goes back to the 1980s and has evolved over the years as a game sold in stores and one that is involved in tournaments all around the world.

Faith Lutheran Church schedule

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church schedule

Berean Faith Fellowship schedule

Mulberry Street United Methodist Church schedule

Brinkhaven Church of Christ schedule

Apostolic Christian Church schedule

Ebenezer United Methodist Church schedule

Trinity Assembly Of God schedule

First Presbyterian Church schedule

First Church Of The Nazarene schedule

Gay Street United Methodist Church schedule

Mount Vernon Church Of Christ schedule

Victory Church Of Christ schedule

Church At Chapel Hill schedule

Kenneth Lee Schaaf, 75, of New Port Richey, FL, peacefully passed on June 6, 2022. Please see full obit at www.tampabay.com/obits; also please see Ken's FB page.

The Earth lost another Beautiful Soul on June 20, 2022. Barbara Jane (Knox) McClary, Born Oct. 4, 1964, in Mount Vernon, went Home to the Heavens peacefully in her sleep, unexpectedly, at the young age of 57.

OngoingKnox Public Health has posted a notice on vaccine availability that will be updated regularly as conditions change.