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EDITOR’S NOTE: Viktoria Arnett of Fredericktown recently was selected as the Knox Educational Service Center’s 2026 Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award recipient. The ESC is...

Note: Viktoria Arnett of Fredericktown recently was named the Knox Educational Service Center’s 2026 Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award recipient. The ESC is profiling the o...

FREDERICKTOWN -- A young woman who plans an electrical engineering career “to design solutions that address real challenges and improve people’s lives” is the Knox County Educatio...

MOUNT VERNON – Students from the Knox Learning Center enjoyed a unique field trip recently, thanks to support from a community partnership. The students, participants in the Lear...

“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.” – Martha Graham, pioneering American dancer and choreographer known as the Mother of Modern Dance. MOUNT VERNON – ...

MOUNT VERNON – Former Centerburg Local Schools Superintendent Mike Hebenthal understands the challenges that classroom teachers face. He also recognizes the opportunities that ar...

MOUNT VERNON – When Petula Clark topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, she sang about the joys of going Downtown: So go downtown Things will be great when you're downtown Don't...

MOUNT VERNON – Two men with deep roots in Knox County will lead the Knox Educational Service Center (ESC) Governing Board in 2026. Longtime Danville educator Ken Boeshart, an 11-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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-...

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’...

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...

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...

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...