Behind the Sign

Citizens Academy: The Right Stuff

In the second session of “Cop Class,” we learned about what it takes to become one of Mount Vernon’s finest, and how rigorous hiring procedures help ensure that only the best of the best put on the blue uniform. Spoiler alert: it's harder than you think to become a cop.

February 29, 2020

Citizens Academy: The Chief’s Story

MVPD Chief Cammock has a good reason to feel fortunate. In addition to living in the place he grew up in and loves, he has a family he treasures and a job that has challenged, fulfilled, and rewarded him for more than three decades. This is his story.

February 19, 2020

Citizens Academy: The Ties that Bind

Staffing the number of uniformed police required to adequately address the multitude of crime prevention strategies pursued by the MVPD would exceed the budget realities facing our police department. The key to bridging that gap is community involvement, which brings us to the all important subject of volunteerism.

February 14, 2020

Citizens Academy: An Ounce of Prevention

Here’s a question for you. On any given evening in a town of roughly 36,000 souls, how many of Mount Vernon’s finest are on duty to respond to a law enforcement incident? Five? Ten, perhaps? The answer might surprise you.

February 12, 2020

Citizens Academy: Welcome to Cop Class!

Your first session of Citizens Academy will introduce you to your classmates, members of Citizens on Proactive Patrol (COPP), and Chief Chris Cammock. You'll also hear from Mount Vernon's mayor, the honorable Jill Boudreau. You'll get your photo taken for your ID badge and receive a notebook in which you'll insert your curriculum materials for the next 12 weeks. So put on your listening cap and get your pens and pencils out...it's time to get schooled on your police department...and your community.

February 4, 2020

Citizens Academy: Inside Cop Class

Meyer Sign & Advertising is pleased to sponsor an upcoming blog series that will take our readers “behind the scenes” of how law enforcement works in Mount Vernon. With the blessing and cooperation of Chief Chris Cammock and the Mount Vernon Police Department, our series will follow the 12-week program known as Citizens Academy -- now in its 26th year!

January 9, 2020

NW Autobody: A Story in Two Generations

At some level, all business stories are personal stories. This rings even truer when the business is a family business. The story of NW Autobody & Collision is the story of the Stanek Family -- a story two generations in the making.

October 2, 2019

Still Crazy After All These Years

Meyer Sign & Advertising has installed a series of signs on the site of the Northern State Hospital. Read about its history, its future...and our connection with both.

September 5, 2019

Day Eight: Legacy

In 1969 the terms "integrated circuit" or "computer chip" would have had no significance to most people. The Apollo program would change that...with lasting consequences for the world.

September 5, 2019

Day Seven: Farewell, Chris Kraft

Christopher Columbus Kraft passed away just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing -- an epic event that he played a major role in bringing about.

September 4, 2019

Day Six: Two Geeks Under 30 Who Saved the Apollo 11 Mission

33,500 feet from Apollo 11's historic lunar landing, the first program alarm went off in the broom closet-sized LEM. “It’s a twelve-oh-two,” Armstrong called out to Houston. The fate of the mission was suddenly in the hands of two guys barely out of college.

September 3, 2019

Day Five: Software, Bill Tindall, and the Little Old Ladies

Bill Tindall, a noted NASA engineer and manager, was responsible for herding an MIT department of high tech cats whose software development activities were poised to make or break the Apollo program.

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