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MOUNT VERNON – As director of the Knox Learning Center, Joe Mazarri knows that compassion and understanding are as important as discipline and academics. His students have learni...

MOUNT VERNON – Along about 1992 Judge James Ronk of the Knox County Juvenile Court had seen enough Three-day school suspensions were removing disruptive students from classrooms ...

DANVILLE – Seventh-graders at Danville Junior High School got a first-hand look at careers of their choice Wednesday and they did it without leaving their classroom. Using virtua...

DANVILLE – Four students from Danville Local Schools have earned the honor to represent their district in next month’s 65th annual Knox County Spelling Bee. They won their recent ...

CENTERBURG – Emmaline “Emmie” Perkins, Willow Barnard, Kiley Frye and Dallas Boggs will represent Centerburg Local Schools in next month’s Knox County Spelling Bee. The four won ...

FREDERICKTOWN – Four students will represent Fredericktown Local Schools in next month’s 65th annual Knox County Spelling Bee. They won their recent in-school, grade-level bees. ...

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...