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Tiny Reader not waiting to enjoy her Library Books

When you're a little girl just along for the ride, sometimes "Waiting is not Easy!"  Nova Feltis visited the Vinton Public Library with mom this week and just couldn't wait to get home to read her li...

Daily Email for Next Week

Next week will be a little different (due to circumstances which I cannot control, but will no doubt tell you about later). There will be no outbound email each day at 11:45 a.m. like many are us...

Vinton Fall Cleanup days Saturday-Sunday October 1-2

Vinton residents will be able to dispose of the old items sitting around the house during Vinton's Fall Cleanup Days. From 7:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Octobers 1-2, Vinton residents are welcome ...

Vinton Legion Retires Tattered and Worn Out Flags

Flags are draped over a wire frame in preparation for disposal Thank you to the George G. Luckey Post of the American Legion in Vinton for providing a needed service to the community. A service that many will not need often, but when you do, the Legion members ca...

Iowa State Fair Timber Sports Results

The best wood choppers, sawyers and crosscutters squared off in the Timber Sports competition, judged Tuesday, August 16, at the 2022 Iowa State Fair.Complete results followAxe1) David Cox, Oskaloosa2...

Rural Americana Olde Tyme Beard Growing Contest: Best Groomed & Unique in Vinton

Men from across the state entered their prized whiskers in the Beard Growing contest held Tuesday, August 16, at the 2022 Iowa State Fair.Complete results below:Longest Beard1) Marc Van Donselaar, Pel...

2022 Iowa State Fair Skillathon Contest Results include Benton County Students

This year the Iowa State Fair hosted 213 youth from 63 counties to participate in the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Skillathons for dairy, meat goat, sheep and swine. Each skillathon t...

Vinton Lions help to replace tattered flags

Craig Streeter, Legion Commander and Roger Uthoff accepting the flags from Scott Barron, Lions Club President and Alan Woodhouse, Lions Treasurer. This last Memorial Day, while taking down the many flags at the area cemeteries, the Legion members found 20-40 flags that were faded, frayed or torn and that needed to be disposed of. The Vinton Lion...

Vinton-Shellsburg Agriculture Students Combat World Hunger

Juliana Luis, Jeana White, Jade Pohlman, Spencer Williams, Alana Fleming, Megan Schlitter, Carlie Clark, Amber Deklotz, Kylee Kirchner, Gracie Fish, Izzie Birker, and Brody Waters point at Andrew Pingenot as they all pose for a group photo. In March, students of the Vinton-Shellsburg Agriculture I classes were challenged to select a country around the world and a problem that was creating hunger problems within that country; and create s...

Iowa's connection to the Underground Railroad shared at the CP Depot Museum

Center Point Historical Society News – Log Cabin FestivalJenny Barnett, of the African American Museum of Iowa, gave a talk on The Underground Railroad to about 50 guests at the Center Point Histori...