Grant Pepper, Staff Reporter
Posted inFootball, Sports
KMAC’s 2018 Player of the Year out indefinitely
GALION – The Knox Morrow Athletic Conference’s 2018 Player of the Year did not play in Week 1, and his coach said this week “there is no timetable set for his return.” Northmor senior running back Conor Becker is currently recovering from a knee injury, coach Scott Armrose told Knox Pages. Becker led the KMAC […]
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‘It’s still fresh in our minds’: 9/11 first responders share stories of loss, hope in Mount Vernon
MOUNT VERNON – On the morning of September 11, 2001, John Lambkin and Joe Gavitt stood at the epicenter of the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. As everyone ran away from America’s worst nightmare, they ran toward it. The two former New York City first responders shared their stories at Mount Vernon’s Ariel-Foundation Park […]
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Brain freeze or bust: Inaugural ice cream eating contest draws competitors of all ages
MOUNT VERNON – The contestants came to the table neat, orderly, usually smiling. They left defeated; some with brain-freeze, others with stomach aches, all with vanilla ice cream splattered somewhere on their hands or face. This was the first ever “Ice Cream Eating Championship of Mount Vernon,” hosted by The Joint and Velvet Ice Cream […]
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Mount Vernon illustrator makes New York Times Best Sellers list
MOUNT VERNON – This week, one local illustrator received his industry’s highest honor. It wasn’t the first time. Mount Vernon’s Tim Bowers, an artist and children’s book illustrator, made the New York Times Best Sellers list. He and author Christina Geist’s latest creation, ‘Sorry, Grown-Ups, You Can’t Go To School!’, cracked the list at No. […]
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Miss Mabel’s Miracle: Knox County woman turns 105
HOWARD – As time progresses, the wires connecting present and past begin to fray. Today, the remnants of life pre-World War I are largely artifactual. Books, letters, photographs. They’re in museums and basements, where the sun can’t find them. Except in Knox County, in a little tan house overlooking Apple Valley Lake. There’s a live […]
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How to stay safe on the Kokosing River’s most dangerous stretch
BUTLER TOWNSHIP – Within a recent span of five days, two people went missing in the Kokosing River. First, Mount Vernon resident Mark Booth. The 40-year-old was reportedly swept up by a current June 6 and found the next day 4,500 feet downstream, dead on the banks of the river. Next, Columbus’s Darnal Narayan, 15, who […]
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As Danville teen battles brain tumor, community rallies in support
DANVILLE – Skyler Moore doesn’t know what the future holds. But he knows his hometown will be behind him no matter what. The 2019 Danville High School graduate was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. He spent the last week staying at various hospitals – first Riverside in Columbus, then Nationwide Children’s – before returning […]