Mount Vernon had a few artists place at the WaMaC Art Show in 2025.
Cora Smith received a best of show in 3D pieces with her mixed media piece “The Looming Grace.” The piece also placed first in...
T-Mobile and Bijou Movie Theater held a public reception for the $50,000 grant that the theater received from the Hometown Challenge.
Owner Kelli Kennon-Lane revealed the first phase of work to the...
The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group (CDG), a Main Street Iowa organization, is thrilled to announce its sponsorship of the Nitty Gritty Antique Festival and the Rhubarb Botanicals Farmers...
First place – Autumn Zaehringer (portrait with frame)
• Second place – Hannah Dighton (colorful frog)
• Second place and people’s choice –
Elizabeth Niemczyk (girl with rabbit)
•...
Dorothy, age 5, and Evelyn, age 12, were the winners in the Chalk the Walk Coloring contest held by the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun newspa-
per.
The colored drawings were on display in the Mount Vernon-Lisbon
Sun’s...
The Mount Vernon Middle School Parent Teacher Organization were able to squeeze their 5K run/walk in between storm systems Wednesday, April 23.
As the rain was drying off the track and on the turf...
Crime hits hardest close to home. Such is the case for author and federal judge CJ Williams in his new true crime book A Monster in Mount Pleasant.
The book follows the case of the 1978 and 1979...
Cornell College will celebrate 261 members of the Class of 2025 as they complete their undergraduate careers on the Hilltop and receive their bachelor’s degrees at Commencement on Sunday, May 11.
The...
Another Chalk the Walk is upon us this weekend, with the artwork of “Woman in the Purple Coat” Henry Matisse painting as the featured artwork.
The festival does not get underway without the...
Musician Ed Fallon performed many of Chopin’s nocturnes and other pieces before hosting a discussion on food options at an event at Lisbon Library Saturday, April 12.
Fallon started many of the Chopin...
Members of the Lisbon Parks and Recreation Club baseball and softball teams and other volunteers took part in an annual clean-up day Saturday, April 12, at Lisbon City Park. In an hour, the clubs cleaned...
Think You’re Farm Tough (and Park Friendly)?
If you are farm tough and ready to run, join The Friends of Palisades-Kepler State Park for a family fun run on the back-forty of Bass Family Farms property...
