A look at the newly revamped Clerk of Courts website.

MOUNT VERNON -- The Knox County Sheriff's Office, Mount Vernon Fire Department and Kenyon Campus Security responded to an alleged bomb threat on Kenyon campus on Wednesday.

Today is the first day of school for the county schools. Students aren't the only ones reporting back, food preparers at the cafeterias are making sure lunches are hot and ready.

MOUNT VERNON -- Twenty-five Mount Vernon firefighters, along with 10 from other Knox County fire departments, participated in a fire training exercise Tuesday evening.

SPARTA -- On Saturday, a beloved Sparta resident will turn 100 years old. Ted Ray still lives alone on a farm outside the village, keeps a stand of honeybees, walks every day, rides an exercise bicycle, and puts in a big garden and tends it himself.

MOUNT VERNON -- Slow currents and sand bars added challenges to the boaters taking part in Saturday's Corrugated Cardboard Canoe Race held on the scenic Kokosing River.

MOUNT VERNON -- The theme of the Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival' s annual Flower Show is "Quilting With Flowers," and The Living Center on North Main Street is bursting with plants, flower arrangements and quilts that are color-coordinated with the flora.

Annual plants need not die with the first frost of autumn. Cuttings can be taken from many plants and kept alive over the winter for transplanting in the spring.

Area cheerleading teams competed on Friday at the Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival.

How you can stay healthy and hydrated in the heat.

MOUNT VERNON -- Area football teams put on the pads for the first time on Tuesday and coaches were eager to get going full speed despite the 90-plus degree temperatures. All eyes weren't only on the practice at hand, however. Coaches were watching for heat-related side effects in their players.

MOUNT VERNON -- Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has signed Substitute House Bill 9, a proposal to raise speed limits for tractors driving on highways. The current ceiling is 25 miles per hour, a figure which has been on the books for many years.

Between the harsh frost this spring and the drought conditions found throughout Knox County this summer, local orchards are taking a bruising while consumers are seeing higher prices.

MOUNT VERNON -- There was plenty of music and fun in the air during the August First Friday, though the "triple-H"weather (hot, hazy and humid) cut down the crowds a little.

MOUNT VERNON -- The Ohio News Network turned the video camera on some of Knox County's top tourism destinations on Thursday. The footage shot will be incorporated into an ONN season program focusing on several tourism spots across Ohio that will air sometime next year.

MOUNT VERNON -- The Mount Vernon Players summer musical production of "Snoopy!!! The Musical" put its best paw forward in its final dress rehearsal Wednesday evening at ThePlace@TheWoodward.

Producers Livestock recently sold the land and the buildings which house the stockyard's operations. But the stockyard, which has been serving local producers for more than half a century, is not ready to close shop just yet.