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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 ...

VS FFA Fruit Sales to Wrap this Friday

The VS FFA Fruit sales are currently going on, and we are wrapping them up this Friday 11/3. If you would like to place an order, you can email it to the following address (melissa.heeren@vscsd.org...

Reading, writing and learning together: 6th graders help 1st graders discuss techniques

6th graders listen as first graders read their essays about what would happen if their teacher turned into a witch on Friday. Elementary students heard about zombies on Friday, and imagined how a ...

Registration Open for College Scholarship Program

Scholarship Gives 30 Iowa High School Seniors Chance at $2,000,Educates Them on College Borrowing and Personal Finance. Registration is open for a scholarship that offers Iowa high school seniors a...

VINTON GARDEN CLUB

September 27, 2017 The Vinton Garden Club member of National Garden Clubs, Inc; District II and Central Region met at Panera Bread in Cedar Rapids at 11:15 am for lunch. There were five members in ...

Shellsburg American Legion Fish Fry set for Oct. 27

The Shellsburg American Legion Post 166 will be having their annual Fall Fish Fry on Friday, Oct 27 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The meal includes: All the fish you can eat, baked potato, salad bar, juice an...

Lee and Marlene Overton to Celebrate 60th Anniversary

Lee and Marlene Overton will celebrate 60 years of marriage on November 2nd. They were married at the Dysart Methodist Church in 1957. The couple have four children, Mark (Kathy), Diane (Jeff) Hanf...

Pink Heals Vinton: Many sign truck dedicated to those who have faced disease

KyLee Cripe helps her younger brother, Bryson, find his way around during the first day of Kindergarten on Friday. Brian Tribley watches as cancer survivor Doug Yenser signs his name under that of his wife, Dawn, on the Pink Heals truck. Brian Tribley of Pink Heals greets Dawn Yenser outside of her Vinton hom...

VSHS Band-Choir butter braid sales under way

By Michala Martin, VSHS Choral Dept. Vinton-Shellsburg High School Choir and Band students have begun their annual Butter Braids sales! These wonderful pastry treats are the perfect thing for your ...