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Party in Pink Receives HOT Grant for 10th Annual 5K

Robin Martin receives a Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) grant on behalf of the Annual Party in Pink Walk/Run 5K Virginia Gay Hospital received a $2,000 HOT Grant toward the 10th Annual Party in Pink Walk/Run 5K Race. This fundraising event for Gifts of Hope is held in conjunction with the Vinton’s annual...

American Library Association Award Ceremony online Saturday

The American Library Association will recognize Vinton's Public Library Director, Renee Greenlee, at the "I Love my Librarian" award ceremony. The program will take place this Saturday, January 22 beg...

HOT Grants Distributed to area Organizations: Benton County Historical Society

Melody Snow of Vinton Unlimited presents Sharon Happel with a check for the Benton County Historical Society In 2017, the voters of Vinton passed a ballot measure to establish a 7% hotel/motel tax within the City limits. The tax went into effect on July 1, 2018. Per the Code of Iowa, funds collected must be ...

Wiretap Leads to Vinton Man’s Guilty Plea to Conspiring to Distribute Heroin

             A man who conspired to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rap...

Weather related notices from the city of Vinton

With the impending winter weather, please move parked vehicles off the streets so City crews can get the roads cleared as quickly and safely as possible. Also, sidewalks are to be cleared within ...

Nathan's Smiles Trail Makes the #4 slot of 9 of the Best places to visit in Iowa

Nathan's Smiles Trail gets another I can picture it now, the guy that Nathan's Smiles Trail is named after grinning and being a little embarrassed that his trail is bringing all the attention to Vinton, but being pretty proud of his li...

Vinton-Shellsburg Schools Rank in Top 50 Best Iowa Schools

Vinton-Shellsburg’s two elementary schools were named to the top 50 elementary schools in Iowa by U.S. News and World Report. Shellsburg’s five grades, Pre-Kindergarten through 4th grade, ranked 5...

Urbana man set to plead guilty in death of woman in Center Point

Back in January of 2020, 30-year-old Bret Daniel Klima, of Urbana, was charged with vehicular homicide. In December of 2019 he left the scene of a fatal accident and was charged with other crimes foll...

Hanson's Hollow hit by fire on Saturday

A fire Saturday night destroyed a barn located at Hanson's Hollow just on the southern edge of LaPorte. Photo Hanson's Hollow Pumpkins, gourds, squash, and all your fall decorating needs are possible because of farmers like those at Hanson's Hollow of LaPorte City and other farmers in the area. The La Porte City Fire and R...

FUN AND LOVE AT THE LIBRARY FROM CENTER POINT FRIENDS

The Center Point community continues to show the love, donating to the Friends of the Library giving trees. Kind contributions to the Socktober tree and the November and December winter warmers tree a...