Fixing the bricks

Work started this morning on rebuilding West Curtis Street along side the Armory at Five Point in Mount Vernon. These employees of Rietchlin Engineering of Crestline will take up and clean all the bricks before rebuilding the street base and then replacing the bricks. From left is Pete Rietchlin, digging up the bricks, and cleaning are Art Hardy and D.J. Carver. The street, between Main and Mulberry streets, will be closed for approximately six weeks.

Virgil Shipley

Business

Proper: Economic crisis can be weathered

With nearly 40 years in the banking industry, Luther Proper, president and chief executive officer of The Killbuck Savings Bank, believes the current economic crisis is nothing which can’t be weathered as a nation, and that good things will come as a result.

Samantha Scoles

Parallels found in S&L crisis, subprime loan fall-out

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this evening on its latest version of an economic rescue package, American citizens are left wondering what will happen next. The question that doesn’t seem to be asked enough, is what has been learned from history?

Samantha Scoles

First Friday a homecoming celebration

The Heritage Centre Association is planning the final First Friday of the season for Oct. 3. Knox Community Hospital and Warehouse Music are the event sponsors.

Residents taking advantage of early voting

Early voting began Tuesday at the Knox County Board of Elections, and with the importance of this year’s presidential election, many people have begun to take advantage of absentee voting. Over 100 residents of Knox County walked in on Tuesday to vote, and about 350 have already mailed in their ballots.

Kenesha Beheler

Employers, workers look for match

Opportunity Knox is a Level 2 state certified one-stop employment center serving the Delaware-Knox-Marion-Morrow Job Network.

George Breithaupt