Special Report
Photo by Kimberly Orsborn
Simulation shows what it’s like to be poverty-stricken
Forty people, aided by 20 volunteers, put themselves into the roles of the poverty-stricken on Friday morning by participating in a poverty simulation, sponsored by United Way, at the Mount Vernon Developmental Center.
Kimberly Orsborn
Taking it to the Street: What do you think could be done to solve homelessness in Knox County?
Veteran's Day
Poland survives North Sea crash
After a bombing run over Strasbourg, France, in September 1944, the plane in which Mount Vernon resident Warren “Jack” Poland was the flight engineer ditched into 38-degree water, 80 miles out to sea in the North Sea.
Pamela Schehl
City projects are all on schedule
The weather has been kind to the city of Mount Vernon this fall.
Fred Main
Veteran's Day
Moxley finds trust, purpose in military service
Howard resident Sarah Moxley was a Vietnam-era Marine, then served in the National Guard and later worked in the Knox County Veterans Service Office. She joined the U.S. Marine Corps just after her graduation from Mount Vernon High School in 1964, as soon as she reached her 18th birthday.
Pamela Schehl
