
May 28, 2026
MOUNT VERNON – Knox County students who devoted several months to researching and developing projects on topics of interest to them presented their work during a public Genius Hou...
May 18, 2026
MOUNT VERNON – Their graduating class might have been the smallest in Ohio but no one anywhere worked harder to earn the right to put on a cap and gown. On May 15 Eddie Atkinson ...

May 14, 2026
MOUNT VERNON – One hundred and twelve years after its founding, the Knox Educational Service Center has settled into the most historic section of the city’s downtown. The Knox C...

May 6, 2026
MOUNT VERNON – The Knox Educational Service Center recognized its own this week, saluting the work of nearly 300 ESC employees who support students and teachers throughout Knox Co...
May 1, 2026
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 ...

April 29, 2026
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 ...
April 22, 2026
MOUNT VERNON – Preschool is the first step on the years-long path to formal education. But not every 3-, 4- or 5-year-old who walks through the door for the first time is ready to...
April 20, 2026
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...

April 17, 2026
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...

April 13, 2026
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...
April 7, 2026
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...

March 27, 2026
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...

March 19, 2026
“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 – ...

February 17, 2026
MOUNT VERNON – Former Centerburg Local Schools Superintendent Mike Hebenthal understands the challenges that classroom teachers face. He also recognizes the opportunities that ar...

January 24, 2026
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...

January 20, 2026
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-...
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...
