Hundreds of students leave Mount Vernon public schools

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • December 8, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – When it’s time for school, Marilyn Davis’ son hops into a carpool with two other sixth-graders and they make their way toward Tuckahoe Middle School, even though they all live in Mount Vernon.
The three students are among a growing number of city [...]

Details of Mount Vernon firefighters’ criminal pasts elusive

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • November 16, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – One of the city’s newly hired firefighters spent time in state prison for selling cocaine while another was busted for having stolen weapons.
The two men are among a crop of eight recruits hired by the city in September, despite the fact that [...]

Mount Vernon mayor wants to undo sister’s raise

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • November 18, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – Mayor Clinton Young is supporting a measure to retract a raise for his sister, who received the pay increase shortly after he appointed her as the city’s commissioner of management services in August.
The city’s Board of Estimate and Contract is expected to [...]

Mount Vernon residents protest 2009 budget plan

Winter sports rescued in Mount Vernon by anonymous donor

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • October 15, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – The Knights’ famed hoopsters will hit the basketball courts again this winter as another season of school athletics has been saved from the ax by a large, anonymous donation.
Ronnie Cox, president of the Mount Vernon Educational Foundation, said yesterday that the donation [...]

Raise for mayor’s sister stays in place, for now

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • November 18, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – A measure to retract a raise for Mayor Clinton Young’s sister, the new commissioner of management services, once again did not get enough votes to pass today.
Only two out the three members of the city’s Board of Estimate and Contract were at [...]

Historic presidential election inspires Mt. Vernon residents

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • November 2, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – Derrick Smith says he never voted in the past because he didn’t know much about the candidates or their platforms. He also was discouraged by voting controversies in the 2000 presidential election and thought his vote would not matter.
This year, inspired by [...]

Three of four Mount Vernon fire department ladder trucks out of service

Mount Vernon firefighter suspended from training after argument

Hannan Adely – The Journal News - Nov. 8, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – A city firefighter in training was suspended from the county fire academy this week following a report that he was involved in a verbal dispute at the facility.
Mount Vernon Fire Commissioner Noah Lighty on Thursday denied any probationary firefighter had been removed from the [...]

Mount Vernon firefighter had legal troubles as young man

By Hannan Adely • The Journal News • November 23, 2008
MOUNT VERNON – A probationary firefighter who was suspended from the fire academy three weeks ago had several run-ins with the law as a young man, according to county court records obtained by The Journal News.
The records show Michael Holt was arrested six times for [...]