MOUNT VERNON -- "If you put up your umbrella while you're up here, you'll land in the Kmart parking lot,"said Carole Wagner, coordinator of marketing and community relations at Knox Community Hospital.

A blowing wind with snow flurries greeted scores of youngsters at the Mount Vernon Parks Department annual Easter egg hunt at Memorial Park on Saturday morning.

MOUNT VERNON -- Several industrial chicken farms planned in Knox County may prove to have a bolstering effect on the economy here, according to Case Farms housing manager Mike Keefer.

MOUNT VERNON -- After months of controversy, the issue of "absence-labeling"milk to identify production without artificial hormones is going to the state legislature in Columbus. The issue arose after some large retail chains, including Kroger, began requesting such labels from suppliers in response to perceived customer wishes.

MOUNT VERNON -- Taxpayers in need of cash, or those who suffer from impatience, can get their refund money quickly, but they may pay a high price for doing so.

MARTINSBURG -- Every other Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the Martinsburg community center, the Bunkhouse Band plays square dances, slow dances, hoe-downs, line dances, waltzes, two-steps, cake walks and oldies-but-goodies for the ongoing event residents call the Martinsburg Square Dance.