Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

 
  • Pacemakers Dragstrip has been in operation just outside of Mount Vernon since the mid-1950s. Back then, the race track was bordered by a railroad track, now long abandoned. Over the years, the dragstrip’s configuration has changed so that part of the railroad track area began to be utilized as space for drag racer trailers, once the metal tracks and wooden cross-ties were removed.
  • Pacemakers pit squeezed by Heart of Ohio Trail

    Pacemakers Dragstrip has been in operation just outside of Mount Vernon since the mid-1950s. Back then, the race track was bordered by a railroad track, now long abandoned. Over the years, the dragstrip’s configuration has changed so that part of the railroad track area began to be utilized as space for drag racer trailers, once the metal tracks and wooden cross-ties were removed.

  • Extension funding cut looms

    Troy Cooper, director of the Ohio State University Agricultural Extension Agency in Knox County, had his first taste of sitting in the budget crunch seat Monday when he met with the Knox County Commissioners to discuss funding for 2010. Signs are that it will be a bitter pill to swallow.

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  • Since cold weather has arrived, how are you exercising?

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  • Packing heat: Legislatures loosen gun laws

    An Associated Press review has found that between 2007 and 2008 two dozen states passed new laws loosening gun restrictions. Most changes were in Southern and Western states.

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