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Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun

The community newspaper for Mount Vernon and Lisbon

Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun

The community newspaper for Mount Vernon and Lisbon

Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun

Sun Spots – January 16, 2025

January 16, 2025

Lisbon Pride Boosters Club Help support the Lisbon Pride Boosters by joining our Lucky Lion Casino night on Saturday, Jan. 25, from 6-10 p.m. at Tin Roof Hideaway and Events Center. Admission is $45 in...

Cole Corner: Winter seed sowing event Jan. 28 at Cole

Cathy Boggs, Cole Corner January 16, 2025

Even though winter has us in its cold and icy grip, spring will come again. To help us think about spring and prepare for its return, Master Gardener Sue Murphy is hosting a workshop on winter seed sowing. The...

Cole Corner: Cole Library begins New Year’s New Book challenge

Grace Chamberlain Rowray, Cole Library January 2, 2025

This January, add reading to your resolution list and take part in Cole Public Library’s New Year New Book challenge! Every time you finish a book, stop by the library’s first floor circulation...

Washington Elementary first graders sing about “Seven Feet of Snow” at the concert Dec. 9. Above: Lisbon elementary third graders take the audience on a “Reindeer Parade.”

Masterful melodies

Nathan Countryman, Editor December 18, 2024

Mount Vernon Performing Arts Center and Lisbon Auditorium have been packed this past week, as holiday concerts have been squeezed in ahead of the holidays. Washington Elementary Kindergarten through...

Mount Vernon, Lisbon activities, closures for holiday

Nathan Countryman, Editor December 18, 2024

There are still a few holiday activities happening in Mount Vernon and Lisbon, as well as closures for the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s holidays locally. Activities locally for the holidays...

The combined choirs join together to sing the closer “Let There Be Peace on Earth.”

Lisbon, MV high schools hold holiday concerts

Nathan Countryman, Editor December 18, 2024

The elementary schools weren’t the only groups holding holiday concerts this week. Lisbon’s concert band and jazz band performed Tuesday, Dec. 10 at Lisbon auditorium. Lisbon director Joseph...

From left - Lauren Donovan, Izzy Wolfe, Grace Deklotz, Emma Deklotz, Jen Juhl, Lucy Gregg, Aurora Harris, Makenna Harris, Carolyn Donovan and Jen Donovan.

Girl Scouts learn about bakery business

December 18, 2024

When most people think of Girl Scouts, they think of the delicious cookies sold every year in February, but Girl Scouts do so much more than cookie sales. For example, Friday, Dec. 13, girls from Mount...

Library closing for winter break Dec. 23

Cathy Boggs, Cole Library December 18, 2024

Books and movies have always been a part of our family’s holiday traditions. Is there a favorite movie or book that your family likes to revisit or quote at holiday time? To make sure that you have...

Mount Vernon City Council Briefs

December 11, 2024

Vape shop ordinances pass in MV The council has officially passed new ordinances on not allowing minors in smoke shops, as well as setting where future smoke shops can be established in the community. The...

Amy Friedl show features Mount Vernon Swingin’ Stangs

Nathan Countryman, Editor December 11, 2024

Amy Friedl will be taking her holiday show to the Paramount Theater Saturday, Dec. 14, in Cedar Rapids, and she won’t be alone. This year, her show will feature members of the Mount Vernon High School...

Pictured in photo below, from left: John Walz (general manager of Lynch Ford-Chevrolet), Lisa Lansing (Lynch Ford-
Chevrolet), Tasia Davidson (Young Parents Network) and Kim Hanna (Young Parents Network) with the collected toys donated to the Young Parents Network.

Stuff the Truck helps Young Parents Network

December 11, 2024

Lynch Ford-Chevrolet raised more than $1,750 in donations for their annual Stuff the Truck toy drive, benefiting the Young Parents Network. This is Lynch Ford-Chevrolet’s 14th year sponsoring the...

New Grisham novel explores wrongful convictions

Cathy Boggs, Cole Library December 4, 2024

John Grisham is known for his fiction titles and is often on several fiction bestseller lists when he releases a new title. This fall his latest book is also a bestseller but it is nonfiction - Framed:...

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