Democrats call for party unity
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, left, chats with Mount Vernon Mayor Dick Mavis, center, and city council president John Booth at Thursday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. (Alan Reed)
Head Start awarded $200,000 grant
Gambier Head Start Center students, from left, Annie Hartman, Elionna Young and Bryar Householder, work with teacher Stacy Butler-Chopek to send off their well wishes for today. The children are encouraged to show empathy to family members who are not feeling well or to children who are absent from school that day. (Submitted photo)
Cleaning up
A Knox County Highway Department crew closed Mishey Road, near Knox Lake Road, for most of Thursday to clear limbs and brush blown down in the storm on Sept. 7. Because it is leaning out over the road, this big tree will also be removed in the near future. (Virgil Shipley)
No injuries in crash
Driver Kennelyn Alexander, 67, Mount Vernon, told the Ohio State Highway Patrol she blacked out before this crash Wednesday at 1:25 p.m. The OSHP said she was eastbound on New Delaware Road when her car ran off the curve, just before the intersection with Harcourt Road. She and her passenger, Joseph Baldwin, 90, Mount Vernon were not injured. (Virgil Shipley)
Radius inserts
The October edition of Radius inserts in today's print editon of the Mount Vernon News (News Graphic)
CES, Romanians sharing information
Kelly Schermerhorn, left, President and CEO of CES Credit Union welcomes Florin Simion, center, representing the Federation of Romanian Credit Unions and Josh Fetting of the World Council of Credit Unions Inc. (George Breithaupt)
