Mount Vernon News is one of the few family-owned newspapers left in Ohio or in the United States. Its corporate name is Progressive Communications Corporation.  PCC does business under the following names also, Marketing Information Distribution Services (M.I.D.S.), Shoppers’ Mart, Buckeye Printing, mountvernonnews.com and Bike Midwest. The company has been in operation since 1839.  It has been owned by the Culbertson family since the early 1900’s.  The company takes pride in serving the residents of Knox County by providing local news, sports results and is Knox County’s market place for buyers and sellers.