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MOUNT VERNON – Noah, a junior at the Knox Learning Center, glanced at the overcast sky outside Knox Memorial Theater. “Rain, just stay away,” he said. ...

MOUNT VERNON – When a black labrador puppy walked into his life in 2000 Derek Fisher had no idea the dog would become his best friend, his co-worker and a calming lifeline for sco...

MOUNT VERNON – As The Hungry, Hungry Bookworm kept growing and growing, 620 excited, shrieking Knox County second-graders thought it might touch the ceiling of Knox Memo...

Centerburg preschoolers didn’t have to go looking for a farm this week – it came to them. Thanks to the school’s agricultural community partners, all three of the morning and aft...

MOUNT VERNON – The Knox Educational Service Center’s four preschool sites will welcome parents, grandparents and others to Family Fun Night Sept. 24. A variety of interactive act...

MOUNT VERNON – Very early in his career, Joe Mazzari admits, he looked at the world through rose-colored glasses. “I thought people got married, stayed together, and families rem...

MOUNT VERNON – Twenty-five years. Like most other Americans, Jackie and Bob Wihl of Mount Vernon can hardly believe that a quarter century has passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, te...

MOUNT VERNON – Knox County second-graders will see Act 1 of MTVarts’ production of “The Wizard of Oz” on Sept. 11 to open the 2026 Youth Enrichment Series (YES) at the Knox Memori...

MOUNT VERNON – Superintendent Dr. Timm Mackley opened the Knox Educational Service Center’s 112th year on Wednesday by bestowing “Doctor of Thinkology” degrees on three more staff...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...