Mount Vernon city mayor's Office

Ohio businesses and individuals can look for help from the Ohio Department of Development, which still has grant funds to help offset lost revenue and wages during the pandemic in 2020.

Retired New York firefighter Chris Edwards returns to Mount Vernon on Saturday for the city’s 9/11 memorial service, two years after he visited the city in the Tunnels to Towers Project, a traveling memorial.

Representatives from Mount Vernon’s health, education, faith-based, business and social services communities will help the city figure out the best way to use an estimated $1.7 million federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

The Mount Vernon Police Department promoted Jessica Butler from detective-patrolman to the rank of sergeant.

Mount Vernon hired its first female paramedic firefighter and she’ll be sworn in when she starts work on July 13.