Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Updated:8:21 am

Church fire ruled accidental

MOUNT VERNON — Three fire departments equipped with eight fire trucks and 27 firefighters battled a fire Thursday morning in the Victory Church of Christ, just north of Mount Vernon on Upper Fredericktown Road. The Mount Vernon Fire Department was the initial responding agent to the fire and quickly called in mutual aid from the College Township Fire Department and Fredericktown Community Fire District.

Virgil Shipley

Updated:8:21 am

Freshwater's teaching skills discussed

MOUNT VERNON — Deb Strouse was the sole witness on Thursday as the contract termination hearing for suspended Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher John Freshwater entered its second day of the defense phase. Strouse, middle school achievement coordinator and sixth-grade administrator, was the individual assigned to monitor Freshwater’s classroom activities the last six weeks of the 2007-08 school year.

Pamela Schehl

Updated:8:21 am

Freshwater update

MOUNT VERNON — Mount Vernon Middle School teachers who worked with the same team of eighth graders as John Freshwater are in the process of testifying today in Freshwater’s termination hearing.

Pamela Schehl

Updated:5:14 pm

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