City of Mount Vernon

Blackberry Alley between Vine Street and Gambier Street will be closed Monday, June 12, 7:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. for the installation of a new gas service at 110 S. Main St.

The Knox County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) appointed Amy Seward as its new deputy director.

West Pleasant Street, between Burgess Street and Norton Street, will be closed for the rising of a manhole until 4 p.m. today, June 6.

Traffic signals will be out of service at two intersections along Mansfield Avenue for traffic signal work starting at 1 p.m. June 6 and continuing until 4 p.m., July 21.

The Ohio Department of Development and Kno-Ho-Co-Ashland Community Action Commission will offer assistance to income-eligible Ohioans for water and wastewater (sewer) bills.

Virginia Stoutenburgh Holland, 93, passed away May 30, 2023.

David Poland Barnhill went to sleep in Jesus on his 94th birthday, May 31, 2023, at the Country Club Retirement Center in Mount Vernon.

The Centerburg High School Town Crier newspaper captured the state's highest overall award for high school journalism, with staff members taking home 35 individual awards.

Mount Vernon City Schools will provide free on-site lunch at Dan Emmett Elementary School June 5 through July 28 to students 18 months to 18 years old, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to noon. This Summer Food Program requires that the meals be eaten on site and will not include July 4.

Three members of the Fredericktown High School FFA will advance to the district FFA public speaking contest after their participation in the recent county contest.

If you have any questions, please call Amie Hatfield, director, at 740-892-2020.

To mark Public Service Recognition Week, the U.S. Department of Education announced it has approved nearly 616,000 borrowers nationwide for approximately $42 billion in Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) since October 2021.

One Person One Vote announced the results of a recent poll of 1,069 Ohio voters conducted from May 5-8 that affirms the unpopularity of the General Assembly’s attempt to raise the win threshold on ballot measures to 60%.

Nick Murphy, senior in the computer network technology program at Knox County Career Center, finished fourth place in the Network Administration using CISCO competition at the Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Leadership Conference, held April 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif.

Mental Health & Recovery for Licking & Knox Counties (MHR) will hold the following meetings in June. All are free and open to the public.

The ALS Association, the country’s largest nonprofit organization devoted to curing and caring for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), thanks the Ohio General Assembly and Rep. Jamie Callender for including $1 million to support ALS patients and caregivers in the state.

June 2023

Lovers of vintage glass handcrafted in Ohio will find an abundance of collectable table glass at the annual glass show and sale, set for June 15-17 at the Lou and Gib Reese Ice Arena, 935 Sharon Valley Road, Newark.

Norma Hammerlee Siekkinen, 91, of Mount Vernon, passed away on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at the Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center.

In bloom along the roadside, woods edges or along field fence rows is a beautiful and tall purple, blue or white flower. It has many names, Dame’s Rocket, Dame’s Violet, Mother of the Evening or Sweet Rocket.