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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

Lisbon’s Ethan Stone plays at second base at the Field of Dreams Thursday, June 5.

Lisbon ends losing streak with win over Springville

Ryan Suchomel, Reporter June 11, 2025

A rough week on the diamond for the Lisbon baseball team ended Thursday with a trip to the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, where they put an end to a five-game losing streak and beat Springville, 12-0,...

 Mount Vernon’s Hayden Gookin (No. 17) pitches early last week.

Mustang softball trots over Blue Raiders

Ryan Suchomel, Reporter June 11, 2025

Summer goes by pretty fast. No. 6 Mount Vernon softball is going to need some games like the one it won 3-2 over Anamosa on Friday, June 6, at Van Metre Family Softball Field. “Everything you go through...

Bailey shows off a bearded
dragon to attendees of the
Tails and Tales program.

Tails and Tales program held at Cole

Nathan Countryman, Editor June 11, 2025

Cole Library’s first big summer reading program was “Tails and Tales,” a storytime run by the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium from Dubuque. Bailey, a staff member from the museum,...

Lisbon hires new football coach

Ryan Suchomel, Reporter June 11, 2025

New Lisbon football coach Alex Dean comes in knowing what Lion Pride is all about. The 2013 Lisbon grad was named the head coach this week, pending school board approval. “I know the kind of quality...

Dolly Parton Imagination Library celebrates 30 years

Nathan Countryman, Editor June 11, 2025

The Dolly Parton Imagination Library program is celebrating 30 years this year, and the Mount Vernon and Lisbon programs are looking to celebrate that accomplishment. More than 3.1 million children...

Kira Moore blows some bubbles outdoors at the summer library reading program kick off. The bubble station was a very popular station, with a run needed to go pick up additional bubble solution during the event.

Kicking off summer

Nathan Countryman, Editor June 5, 2025

It could have been the excellent weather. Or a different location this year. But the Cole Library summer reading program kick-off attracted more than 123 people and had 66 youth or teenagers signed...

Community Day Saturday at Pleasant Grove Heritage Park

Nathan Countryman, Editor June 5, 2025

Friends of Pleasant Grove Heritage Park is encouraging people to get outdoors this weekend with a trip to the park in Lisbon for “Community Day” from 1 to 4 p.m. at the park. “The McElmeel family...

Linn County cancer cases on rise

Nathan Countryman, Editor June 5, 2025

Linn County Public Health and the Iowa Cancer Consortium held a 99 Counties Project Thursday, May 29, where the results of Linn County’s cancer rates were provided. Pramod Divedi, Linn County Public...

Garet Swartzendruber applies the tag on Solon’s Dylan Gorham in game two of a varsity doubleheader against the Spartans in Solon Wednesday, May 28.

MV baseball bests Lisbon in crosstown rivalry 7-4

Ryan Suchomel, Sports Editor June 5, 2025

Mount Vernon freshman catcher Gabe Grafft came to bat in the bottom of the fifth inning Thursday, May 29, with his team holding a slim, one-run lead over their nearby rivals, Lisbon. There...

Payton Woodland (center) leads the graduates down the music hallway where teachers are there to congratulate the graduates.

Living as masterpieces

Nathan Countryman, Editor May 29, 2025

Live your life like the masterpiece you are. That was the advice from the selected faculty graduation speaker, Ed Timm, to the graduating class of 2025. Timm...

The Lisbon track team gathered at home Lisbon Saturday evening to denote their first place finish as a track and field champions for 2025, winning the Class 1A competition again this year.

Lisbon threepeat state track champions

May 29, 2025

The Lisbon boys track team had a threepeat of their class 1A win at the state track tournament Thursday, May 22 through Saturday, May 24. The team previously won the state class 1A track title...

Mortarboards take to the sky at Lisbon Sunday, May 18.

Caps Off

Nathan Countryman, Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun May 21, 2025

Lisbon held commencement exercises at the Lisbon Lion’s Den Sunday, May 18. A total of 56 students received diplomas. Lisbon secondary principal Jack Leighty said that he has come to enjoy the class...

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