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MOUNT VERNON – Xzyaeren Gabriel “Gab” Cabarcas, Vincent Jiang and Jace Dewitt will represent Mount Vernon Middle School in next month’s Knox County Spelling Bee. The trio won the...

MOUNT VERNON – An audience of 200 senior citizens got a glimpse Thursday of the inevitable changes that are coming to Mount Vernon City Schools. The district welcomed them to its...

MOUNT VERNON – Is it the 15th year? Or the 16th? No one remembers for sure but the Knox Learning Center is preparing its annual Thanksgiving feast for students, their families an...

HOWARD – Four East Knox Elementary students have earned the right to represent their school at the 2025 Knox County Spelling Bee. The county bee is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Jan. 1...

MOUNT VERNON – Superintendent Timm Mackley was blunt about the impact the late Terry Walter had on the Knox Learning Center. “There’s not a thing in this building that wasn’t tou...

MOUNT VERNON – Wind gusts couldn’t blow away the fun of the Knox Learning Center’s annual playground trick-or-treat Thursday afternoon. Staff, many dressed in colorful Halloween ...

MOUNT VERNON – If an emergency forces the evacuation of a Knox County public school, there are two priorities: the safety of students and staff and the secure reunification of chi...

HOWARD – East Knox Elementary second-grader Colt Keyes knows for sure that Principal Melissa Moreland has a heart. He used a stethoscope – yes, a real one – during Friday’s healt...

FREDERICKTOWN – Sharley Maglott, a 10-year bus driver for Fredericktown Local Schools, always is watching out for the potential dangers posed by errant drivers. Now she’s on the a...

CENTERBURG – It isn’t often that you can step out your door and right into a pumpkin patch. But that’s exactly what children in the preschool operated by the Knox Educational Ser...

MOUNT VERNON – They ran. They climbed. They laughed. And they said thank you. Children at the Knox Educational Service Center (ECS) preschool at New Hope gathered to express the...

MOUNT VERNON – In June the Ohio Association of School Business Officials sponsored a program in Columbus titled “So you want to be a school treasurer.” Registration information ...

MOUNT VERNON – The Little Mermaid Jr. will swim into Knox Memorial Theater this week for two shows as part of the 2024 Youth Enrichment Series (YES!) MTVarts will present a...

MOUNT VERNON – This is the story of the microbiologist who put away her microscope and picked up a guitar, much to the delight of thousands of Knox County first-graders. Sarah Go...

Twenty-three employees were recognized for service ranging from five to 20 years at the Knox Educational Service Center’s staff breakfast meeting on August 13. “The experience a...

MOUNT VERNON – Dr. Timm Mackley took a page from “The Wizard of Oz” Tuesday morning when he recognized five long-time Knox Educational Service Center (ESC) employees with honorary...

CENTERBURG – Randy Bradford never realized his high school dream of a career in radio. Instead, this week he will close the book on 47 years in public education whe...

MOUNT VERNON – Small radishes and lettuce leaves generated big smiles recently as elementary students at the Knox Learning Center harvested them from raised garden beds in a corn...

MOUNT VERNON – Three young men received their high school diplomas Friday after overcoming learning challenges at Transition U, a life-skills teaching program at the Knox Learning ...

FREDERICKTOWN – Sixth-graders who gathered for a photo Thursday had a resounding response when asked if they were ready for their third trip to Academic Challenge. “Yes!” they de...