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Extensive Mount Vernon Mansion Revitalization Underway Two-year project limits access at certain locations to this popular attraction.
Mount Vernon's school board unanimously appointed a new superintendent, Demario A. Strickland, at a May 14 special meeting.
Idaho's attorney general has ruled that the "Everyone is Welcome Here" signs that stirred up controversy for "inadvertently" sparking division must be removed from every public school in the state.
Join Mount Vernon for a 250th-anniversary celebration of George Washington's command with parades, music, military demos, and interactive activities, June 14.
Masked men using a stolen sign to block the theft of several Pride flags from people’s front yards in a Fort Collins neighborhood were caught on camera.
Community Mount Vernon Rec Center reopens after $74M makeover, doubling in size The Mount Vernon Rec Center now offers state-of-the-art facilities. Here's a closer look.
YAKIMA, Wash. - The final band-of-brothers chapter on the Mount Vernon High School baseball story had a happy ending Saturday - a first WIAA Class 3A baseball championship in 33 years.
Kennewick tried to pitch around Mount Vernon’s Xavier Neyens in the Washington WIAA Class 3A state championship game at Parker Faller Field in Yakima on Saturday.
YAKIMA — The Mount Vernon High School baseball team beat Ballard 4-3 on Friday in a semifinal-round game of the Class 3A State Tournament.
The new sign at Portland Road and Hyacinth Street NE replaces a wooden one that had been described on social media as drab, neglected and faded.
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- The city of Fort Walton beach has selected its design for their new downtown welcome sign.
Thus, in some ways, it is Mount Vernon that stands for the American national character. This essay is about Mount Vernon, George Washington, and the American national character.