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Dan S. Sampson

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 9, 2019

Dan S. Sampson passed away at his home July 25, 2019.

Louis M. Mickley

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 9, 2019

Louis M. Mickley, 51, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, at his residence.

Marion Louise McMahon

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 9, 2019

Marion Louise McMahon, 89, of Mount Vernon, passed away Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, at the Country Court Care Center in Mount Vernon.

Dale Orville Butler

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 9, 2019

Dale Orville Butler, 89, of Mount Vernon, passed away Aug. 7, 2019.

Irene Bowman

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Irene Bowman, 89, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, at her residence.

Dale O. Butler

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Dale O. Butler, 89, of Mount Vernon, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, at Country Court Nursing Home.

Helen L. Darr

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Helen L. Darr, 87, of Coshocton, passed away at Riverside Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation in Newcomerstown Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

Ruth Eloise Ermlich

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Ruth Eloise Ermlich, 70, of Mount Vernon, died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at Country Court Nursing Center in Mount Vernon.

Louis Mickley

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Louis Mickley passed away Aug. 7, 2019.

Johanna ‘Joan’ Sichel

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Johanna “Joan” Sichel, 87, of Howard, (Apple Valley) was received into Heaven Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at Knox Community Hospital in Mount Vernon.

Elnora H. Stamm

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Elnora H. Stamm, 87, of Mount Vernon passed away at her home Monday, Aug. 5, 2019.

Cheerleading Competition venue changed

By Mount Vernon News | Aug 8, 2019

Tonight's Dan Emmett Music & Arts Festival Cheerleading Competition has been moved to MVNU Auxiliary Gym in the Prince Student Union. It is still set to start at 6 p.m.

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Mock emergency exercise

By Joshua Morrison | Aug 8, 2019

A Blackhawk helicopter makes a landing at the Knox County Fairgrounds during a simulated emergency exercise Wednesday.

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Highland camp teaches math literacy

By Katie Ellington | Aug 8, 2019

Kim Lovely stood at the front of her classroom and told her students to start swimming.

Seminar explains recovery housing

By John Wareham | Aug 8, 2019

The 2019 KSAAT Knox Addiction Conference at Mount Vernon Nazarene University concluded its second and final day Wednesday with a series of addiction-related seminars, including the Recovery Housing as a Foundation of Recovery event, moderated by Amy Smart of the Riverside Recovery House.

‘Dixie’ song originator(s) fuel film, discussion

By Larry Di Giovanni | Aug 8, 2019

There is “no smoking gun” concerning the absolutely definitive origin of the song “Dixie,” John Chidester told audience members gathered Wednesday evening in the A/V room of the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County.

Beer garden turns small profit, expected to return for 2020 fair

By Jamie Holland | Aug 8, 2019

Overall, the Knox County Fair had a good week without much incident.

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No injuries reported in garage fire

By Joshua Morrison | Aug 8, 2019

Electricity seems to be the cause of a garage fire in the 10 block of Mansfield Avenue in Mount Vernon early Tuesday morning.

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Developer gets variances

By Katie Ellington | Aug 8, 2019

A local developer may be one step closer to repurposing the site of the old Mulberry Street school.

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Drug courts discussed at KSAAT conference

By John Wareham | Aug 7, 2019

The Knox Substance Abuse Action Team (KSAAT) started its two-day conference Tuesday at Mount Vernon Nazarene University and one of the panel discussions on the first day was about Alternative Rehabilitation Making Offenders Responsible (ARMOR) Court, which is Knox County Common Pleas Court’s drug court.

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