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Fareway employees donate to Breast Cancer Survivors

Dave Kelchen presents a donation to the Benton County Breast Cancer Survivors Group. On behalf of the survivors accepting are Deb Wilberg, Charlotta Fisher, Kathie Ervin, and Dawn Yenser. Fareway empl...

Jordan Biertzer Named to Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport Dean's List

Jordan Biertzer of Vinton, IA, a student in the Doctor of Chiropractic Program at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, has been named to the Summer 2017 Trimester Dean's List. To be e...

American Education Week Proclamation

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Be You Bravely: Event receives praise from teens, parents; organizers begin planning 2018 event

The first Be You Bravely, a faith-based event designed to help teenage girls face the challenges of their teenage years with confidence and grace, was a success, both in the number of students who sig...

Pack 47's first Cake Auction was big success

Pack 47 Scouts pose with cakes before the auction Saturday. Carter Smith poses with the cake he made, featuring arrows and a bulls-eye, made with KitKat candy bars and blue, red and yellow M ...

VS continues honoring veterans with student body assembly

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J88Yqhgqps4&app=desktop[/embed] The Vinton-Shellsburg High School Student Senate led the entire VS student body in a tribute to veterans Friday morning at the...

Iowa's Principal of the Year Murray honored in D.C. with others at DC event

Tilford Principal Jim Murray and his wife, Lisa, pose with the ice sculpture honoring the Principals of the Year during a banquet in D.C. Outstanding elementary and middle schoolprincipals from acro...

In Memoriam: Dell Hanson (1935-2017)

Clockwise from left: Larry Thiher, Don Selken, Leroy Deutsch, Dave Mick, Delbert Koopman, Marge Mick, Dell Hanson and Rick Happel gather at Farmer Sales and Service in April of 2011, where they met d...

Annual VGH Tree Walk begins; more than 50 trees; Facebook auction added this year

This wreath is available only by auction via Facebook, allowing people too far away to visit the VGH Tree Walk to participate. The Simpsons, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and the Iowa Hawkey...

Halloween! City filled with costumes and families continue creative custom

City crews and volunteers add the second layer of Hesco barriers to a flood wall protecting VMEU buildings on Friday. A young girl screams in jest as the "Jurassic Park" dinosaur chases her at the MOPS-sponsored Trunk-Or-Treat in the Blessed Hope Church parking lot. The clown from the 'IT' movie, now playing at ...