
December 4, 2024
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...

November 22, 2024
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...

November 21, 2024
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...

November 19, 2024
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...

November 14, 2024
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...

November 1, 2024
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 ...

October 28, 2024
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...

October 28, 2024
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...

October 17, 2024
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...

October 8, 2024
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...

September 29, 2024
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...

September 16, 2024
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 ...

September 9, 2024
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...

September 3, 2024
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...

August 21, 2024
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...

August 13, 2024
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...

June 10, 2024
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...

May 21, 2024
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...

May 20, 2024
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 ...

May 10, 2024
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...