Articles Tagged: Mount Vernon

With 2025 behind us, here are the food and restaurant stories you ate up this year.

State and local officials are investigating the death of a Cornell College student who was found in a dorm room Thursday night.

Amy Friedl's “Christmas at the Paramount,“ slated for Saturday, Dec. 13, mixes traditional and contemporary Christmas songs.

In addition to Naloxone, menstrual products and wound care kits, Linn County’s harm reduction vending machines now dispense gun locks.

The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Police Department will work with nonprofit Worldmaker Resilience Institute to bring mental health resilience training to first responders across Iowa, thanks to a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Rural EMS departments like the one found in the Lisbon-Mount Vernon area are facing tough decisions about how best to continue service in the face of increased call volumes, stagnating insurance reimbursements and lagging volunteerism.

Based in Swisher, Iowa, Doug Flugum has traded boardrooms for blowpipes, servers for sculptural vessels, and spreadsheets for the shimmer of glass. His solo exhibition opens Saturday, Nov. 29, at Abbe Creek Gallery, 105 1st St. W., Mount Vernon, and runs until Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026.

Ring in the holiday season with festivals, holiday markets, light displays and other events.

The Cornell College Department of Theatre and Dance brings a poignant portrayal of everyday life to the stage with Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” from Dec. 11 to 14 in Kimmel Theatre.

Also in this week’s Government Notes, Cedar Rapids Council finalizes rezoning of former Garfield Elementary site

Tim Charles, author of “Aging Life Design: A Journey Captured in Morning Pages,” is offering a presentation and discussion opportunity titled “An Intersection of the Arts and Aging Well” on Oct. 16 in Mount Vernon.

Also in this week’s Government Notes roundup, Cedar Rapids is opening applications for its ‘Snow Buddies’ program.

Robert Campagna’s 25-image exhibit, “Thin Spaces,” is based on the Celtic tradition that “thin places” are spots where the separation between the physical world and the spiritual world seems tenuous. The exhibit is open Oct. 1 to Nov. 15, with an artist’s reception Oct. 9.

The play, written by Joseph Zettelmaier, is the story of four childhood friends who decide to plan a heist of the Kenner Toy Factory in order to steal Star Wars collectibles. True to the traditions of any good heist story, chaos ensues.

In 1926, Mount Vernon native Louis Howard Kepler in his will left 200 additional acres of land to expand Palisades State Park.