News

Benton County Fair Queen Candidate: Annabelle Newton

Annabelle NewtonMy name is Annabelle Newton, and I am the daughter of Chad and Kim Newton, and have one sister Sophia (12). I am a sophomore at the Vinton-Shellsburg High School where I am involved in...

Benton County Fair Queen Candidate: Emily Ingalls

Emily IngallsEmily Ingalls is the daughter of Loren and Patricia Ingalls. She has two older brothers, Aaron and Tristan and her older sister Machaela. She lives outside of Van Horne and attends Benton...

Benton County Fair Queen Candidate: Harlyn Heitshusen

Harlyn HeitshusenMy name is Harlyn Heithusen. Daughter of Willis and Cindy Heitshuen. I live outside of Urbana, Iowa, on a horse and cattle ranch with my parents and my two siblings, Hadley and Kendal...

Benton County Fair Queen Candidate: Kailey Bahmann

Kailey BahmannHey Benton County, my name is Kailey Bahmann. My parents are Scott and Amy Bahmann along with my younger brother Alex Bahmann. I currently live in Vinton and just currently graduated fro...

North Eden Willing Workers

North Eden Willing Workers clear the Miniature Golf Course in preparation for another summer of play On Saturday, the North Eden Willing Worker performed a community service project as part of their service. The group cleared weeds and brush at the skate center cleaning the miniature golf course area...

Vinton Lions Club welcomes Adam Rodenberg

Adam Rodenberg ,  Watershed Project Coordinator, presented progress with the Iowa Watershed Approach a Federal Flood Mitigation program and Flood Resiliency project. The pilot project started in ...

Great Success at the 2021 V-S FFA Banquet

Pictured: The retiring Officers with the newly elected officersThe 2021-2022 Officer Team takes their first group picture together after the FFA Banquet. (left to right): Paul Herger, Grace Schminke, ...

Vinton Community Foundation Distributes $29,273.00 to Local Organizations

The Vinton Community Foundation is announcing the distribution of $29,273.00 in grants to the following organizations serving the City of Vinton.Local Option Sales Tax Fund & Vinton Community Foun...

SHELLSBURG STUDENT WINS 1ST PLACE IN MONEY SMART WEEK POSTER CONTEST

Jessica Helms presents poster contest winner Oliviah Doty (and mom Kathrin Rego) with her winnings Oliviah Doty, a fifth-grader attending Shellsburg Elementary School in Shellsburg, IA has won 1st Place in Community Bankers of Iowa’s (CBI) Money Smart Week Poster Contest. As the Grand Prize winne...

Quilts of Valor makes presentation to Master Sergeant Whelan

Master Sergeant Robert Quilts of Valor has one mission, "to cover Service Members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor." The organization is responsible for presenting 271,408 quilts to se...