
January 15, 2026
Larry Gibbs, Knox Educational Service Center MOUNT VERNON – It took 26 rounds and nearly two hours before Vincent Jiang, a Mount Vernon Middle School eighth-grader, emerged as th...

December 18, 2025
DANVILLE – Four students have earned the honor of representing Danville Local Schools in next month’s Knox County Spelling Bee. They are: Camren Clark, fifth grade; Glen Geog, si...

December 15, 2025
FREDERICKTOWN – Carsyn Adkins, Sophia Workman, Cross Adkins and Parker Fearn will represent Fredericktown Local Schools in next month’s Knox County Spelling Bee. The four emerged...

December 14, 2025
Larry Gibbs, Knox Educational Service Center MOUNT VERNON – You hear it often: “We’re like a family here.” Many organizations use that phrase, but nowhere does it have more mean...
December 10, 2025
HOWARD – Jackson Daugherty, Marley Moore, Jace Daugherty and Callie May will represent East Knox in next month’s annual Knox County Spelling Bee. The four emerged as champions in...

December 8, 2025
Knox Educational Service Center CENTERBURG – Four Centerburg Local Schools students have won the privilege to compete in next month’s Knox County Spelling Bee. They were winners...

November 20, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – Edward Ernest, Gab Cabarcas and Vincent Jiang will represent Mount Vernon Middle School in next month’s Knox County Spelling Bee. The three prevailed as champions ...

November 17, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – A Fredericktown parent will join the governing board of the Knox Educational Service Center (ESC) in January. Tommy Groshong, 36, won a four-year term on the five-...

November 14, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – A high school class at the Knox Learning Center is determined to parlay the few canned goods they have now into a mountain of support for residents of Mount Vernon’...

November 4, 2025
MOUNT VERNON -- Halloween trick or treat at the Knox Learning Center was about more than candy; it was a demonstration of community support. A dozen representatives of local depa...

October 31, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – For the second time in a week a senior who met all requirements for his high school diploma was cheered during a “clap out” Friday morning at the Knox Learn...

October 28, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – Around 1:35 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27, a success story walked out of the Knox Learning Center and into the crisp sunshine of the future. Tristan Carter, who had earn...

October 22, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – You might expect at least a hint of disappointment in Lindsey Boeshart’s voice, but you won’t hear any. The 2022 Fredericktown High School graduate put family firs...

October 15, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – The recent gourd harvest by elementary students from The Learning Center was much more than an afternoon in the autumn sun. It marked the culmination of hands-on s...

October 2, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – Helping young children who qualify for special education support is Sarah Hill’s passion. An intervention specialist, she has joined the Knox Educational Service C...

October 1, 2025
MOUNT VERNON -- Amy Krumm has joined the staff of the Knox Educational Service Center’s preschool at New Hope after serving 17 years as the lead teacher at the Child Development C...

September 25, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – Most teachers would swallow hard if they stepped into a classroom of 80 – yes, 80 – third and fourth graders. But Samantha Languis enthusiastically accepted that...

September 22, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – Casey Marteney surely is doing something right in her first weeks as a teacher in the Knox Educational Service Center’s (ESC) preschool at the New Hope Learning Cen...

September 10, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – After Annette Neighbarger retired from Mount Vernon City Schools on May 31, 2015, she cried for a month. “I wasn’t ready to retire,” said the 35-year physical educ...

September 9, 2025
MOUNT VERNON – Jan Jones is enthusiastic about her new role as a high school teacher at the ESC’s Knox Learning Center. As she explained in her application, “I am ready for a c...
