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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 ...

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...