City of Mount Vernon OH

Patricia (Morey) Hyatt, 87, of Mount Vernon passed away on Sunday, July 2, 2023, at Willow Brook Christian Community in Delaware, Ohio, after an extended illness of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Beatrice Ann Blubaugh, 79, passed away on Thursday, July 6, at Winchester Terrace in Mansfield.

Crestview Avenue will be closed between Sandusky Street and Upper Fredericktown Road so that Mohican Tree Service can perform a tree removal.

Judy Forney, treasurer of the Knox Educational Service Center (ESC), will leave that position for a second stint as treasurer of Mount Vernon City Schools on Aug. 1.

If you’ve driven past the many signs proclaiming “Vote Yes on Issue 1! Protect the Constitution!” wondering what needs protecting, it’s quite simple: authoritarianism.

Saturday, July 15

Fredericktown High School released the following list of students named to its Honor Roll and Merit Roll for the fourth quarter of the 2022-23 school year.

Knox County Board of Elections, located at 104 East Sugar St., Mount Vernon, will be open for Early Voting beginning July 11, 2023.

City Council no longer has a vacant post as John Ruckman was sworn in as the Second Ward City Council representative on Monday by Mayor Matt Starr, the city announced on Facebook.

Knox County Career Center has released the following list of students named to its Honor Roll and Merit Roll for the fourth quarter of the 2022-23 school year.

Fredericktown Middle School has released the following list of students named to the Honor Roll and Merit Roll for the fourth quarter of the 2022-23 school year.

For further details of the above sentencings, please visit the court website at mountvernonmunicipalcourt.org.

Sophia Zoldak, a 2023 Mount Vernon High School graduate and cadet in Knox County Career Center’s (KCCC) Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program, has been appointed to the United State Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, by the United State Air Force and the United States Space Force.

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Viva A. Zeigler, 85, of Mount Vernon, passed away on July 3, 2023, at her home surrounded by family.

Blackberry Alley will be closed Friday, July 7, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., between East Vine and East Gambier streets.

A funeral service for Bonita Joyce Schwenke, 67, of Mount Vernon, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, July 10, at Brucker-Baker Funeral Home, with Pastor Ben Driver officiating.

MOUNT VERNON – Crews from the Mount Vernon Fire Department worked on water rescue training on the Kokosing River last week.

MOUNT VERNON – The Mount Vernon Fire Department has sworn in new firefighters, given station tours and driven students to school in a fire truck in recent days.

A Mount Vernon man died in a two-vehicle crash in Morrow County on Wednesday morning that is under investigation by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.