Mount Vernon News

The Knox Morrow Athletic Conference basketball season has ended, though teams are still fighting in the OHSAA Tournament play-offs.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 25th ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. For the second week in a row, we have a clean sweep for Danville basketball players, as Camie Newbold and Cam Miller both helped their teams advance in the play-offs, through inspiration, tough defense and offensive determination.

Let’s talk March Madness. Arguably, the most exciting time of the year in college basketball is upon us. March Madness. Bracketology is a thing. People fill out those brackets … boy do they. It is estimated that more than 100 million brackets are filled out every year. How much is bet on the tournament? The NCAA says illegal wagers total more than $2.5 billion a year. The American Gaming Association puts legal and illegal gambling on the NCAA championship at $9 billion.

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

United Producers Inc. market report for the week of Feb. 25, 2022.

Soroptimist International of Mount Vernon and Knox County has presented its 2021 Live Your Dream awards to two local women, Vanessa Grimaldo and Amanda Dearth.

The teams with the best records had the top players and coaches, according to the KMAC, as Centerburg's Mick Mead and Cardington-Lincoln's Beth Hardwick topped the selections realease by he conference, and their coached also brought home hardware.

Final 2022 Mount Vernon Babe Ruth League Registration Saturday.

Mount Vernon area play-off basketball roundup: East Knox-Columbus Patriot; Danville-Tree of Life; Mount Vernon-Newark and Bishop Watterson-Highland.

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

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Cougars men’s and women’s teams lose in quarterfinals. The Mount Vernon Nazarene University men’s and women’s basketball teams saw their seasons come to an end as both teams lost Crossroads league semifinals matches this week. The women lost at Taylor University 82-70, and the men were beaten by Grace, 82-62.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 24th ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. This week, we have a clean sweep for Danville, with two basketball leaders, one who only needed the first half to shine in victory and the other who did his damage in the second half to perform valiantly in defeat.

The Knox County Basketball League held its inaugural tournament last weekend and the Mount Vernon Junior Jackets girls team came away with the championship. The league, in its initial year, serves as a feeder program for boys and girls in grades third through sixth to develop their skills to graduate into local high school programs. Teams from Centerburg, Danville, East Knox, Fredericktown and Mount Vernon school districts were represented in the competition.

Let’s talk Olympics pressure. The XXIV Winter Olympics has ended and there are many takeaways. There is pride in American athletes and competition. There is the joy of smaller nations competing with one or two or three athletes compared to the excesses of USA, Canada, China and the ROC. Now, about the athletes, these talented, focused, obsessed athletes work for four years to win, and sometimes work for 16 years to get the gold, but at what price?

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

William Michael Ferry passed away on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, at TriState Health and Rehabilitation Center in Harrogate, TN.

Carroll "Bud" Sorge, 84, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, in El Paso, Texas. He was a wonderful husband, brother and son and will be greatly missed.

Marsha Lyons started working as a teller at the Commercial and Savings Bank in Danville in 1979.

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