Vinton Popcorn operated by local students, is now available locally AND online! Simply click here to order your own bag! The Vinton Popcorn Project is a collaboration between our schools and local business and community leaders with the goal of fostering entrepreneurial skills.

Vinton Unlimited has made the following announcement regarding vendors for the 2015 Boomfest, which takes place Saturday, Aug. 29. WANTED: Arts & crafts, repurposed treasures, antique vendors for Boom-Fest Saturday, August 29, 2015 10am-4pm 4th Street, Vinton   Expanded Farmers Market for 2015! 10am-1pm 4th Street, Vinton Register with payment by March 1 to receive $10 off your 1st booth space! Download a registration form on the ‘Events’ page at www.

4th Street Diner HACAP North Benton Center 202 East Fourth St Vinton, IA 52349 319-472-4761   Serving Buffet from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Sunday thru Friday.

With the announcement of Radio Shack filling for chapter 11 bankruptcy LaGrange Pharmacy has been receiving a lot of questions about what will happen to the Radio Shack section.

With a new web site and a new director, Vinton Unlimited marked its 30th year with words from Vinton native and former Iowa Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson on Thursday evening.

The Vinton Unlimited Annual Meeting will take place Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Vinton Shellsburg Central Office – 1502 C Ave, Vinton. The guest speaker will be Vinton native Sally Pederson, the former Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.

The Iowa Beef Center at Iowa State University will offer several workshops focusing on choices in feedlot facilities in February and March 2015. Russ Euken, ISU Extension and Outreach beef program specialist, said the workshops, set in various locations throughout the state, will offer an overview of facility types, advantages, and disadvantages, and review research on these types.

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the University of Nebraska are teaming up to offer a Feedlot Roundtable session at four Iowa locations on Thursday, Feb.

Brett Root will follow in some big footsteps at IMCA. Root succeeds his mother Kathy as president of the Vinton-based automotive racing sanctioning organization.

The Benton Development Group Board of Directors will meet Wednesday, January 28th, 2015, starting at 7:00pm at the Van Horne Community Center. The agenda is filled with review and planning for the next BDG meeting.