'Crazy' sportsmanship: Vinton 10-year-old earns unique regional AYSO award

VINTON TODAY
February 20, 2017 12:00 am

The Vinton fifth-grade soccer player honored for outstanding sportsmanship among players in a nine-state region responded to the news of her honor by telling her parents, "Why me? I don't do anything special when I play.

McKenna receives Kisher Scholarship from ISU

VINTON TODAY
February 20, 2017 12:00 am

Ashley McKenna, a junior in materials engineering from Vinton, recently received the $5,000 MTI Bert Kisher Memorial Scholarship to assist in her undergraduate educational experience at Iowa State University.

VS alum Andreesen hoping to end ISU band career at NCAA tourney

VINTON TODAY
February 17, 2017 12:00 am

Claire Andreesen (front, left) celebrates ISU's win over Iowa in 2015, one of her favorite pep band memories. Among those cheering most loudly for an Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball victory each game is an alto sax player, a college senior from Vinton who hopes to end her band career at the NCAA tournament.

VSHS Debate Team performs well; Steele, Thompson advance to Octofinal Round

VINTON TODAY
February 15, 2017 12:00 am

Jared Thompson, left and David Steele advanced to the Octofinal Round at the State Debate event. The Vinton-Shellsburg 2017 Debate Team performed exceptionally well at the Iowa High School Speech Association's State Debate Tournament held on the DMACC Campus in Ankeny on January 6th and 7th.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Announces Dean's List

VINTON TODAY
February 14, 2017 12:00 am

Rachel Gordon of Shellsburg has been named to the Deans' List at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the fall semester of the 2016-17 academic year.

Inspiration for those rendered speechless on Valentine's Day

VINTON TODAY
February 13, 2017 12:00 am

Well, it's about that time of the year again - that time when men who can normally talk incessantly about just about anything - no matter how insignificant - without pausing to find the right words to say, suddenly find themselves speechless.

Vinton Prays: Local women start prayer group, lending libraries

VINTON TODAY
February 11, 2017 12:00 am

April Hummel sorts through prayer cards as she sets up the first of several Vinton Prays boxes outside her in-law's house on 2nd Avenue Saturday morning.

Burroughs to be Awarded for 10 Years of Service

VINTON TODAY
February 10, 2017 12:00 am

The State of Iowa Judicial Branch is pleased to announce the following recipients of the Sixth Judicial District's annual awards, to be formally presented at a reception on February 20, 2017, at 1:30 p.

Area students named to Cornell Dean's List

VINTON TODAY
February 9, 2017 12:00 am

Cornell College named over 200 students to its Dean's List for the Fall 2016 semester. Dean's List students include: Morgan Barnard of Keystone earned Honors Cale Jamesson of Keystone earned High Honors Caitlin Kruckenberg of Garrison earned Honors Honors signifies a semester grade point average of 3.

Hopper-Losenicky graduates from Fielding Graduate University

VINTON TODAY
February 8, 2017 12:00 am

Fielding Graduate University is pleased to announce the graduation of Kristin Hopper-Losenicky, a Vinton native. Kristin completed her doctorate in Psychology with a concentration in Media Psychology.