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Lillie and Carli hit the ground running in New Jersey

Lillie Lamont (left) and Carli Lang wave to the camera during their send off on April 13 Well...I have good news and bad news... The good news is that I got to spend about 30 minutes today video conferencing with Vinton-Shellsburg High School seniors Lillie Lamont and Carli Lang about th...

Tree planted in memory of Caroline Frazier at Tilford Elementary

The plaque that will be placed near the tree. John Frazier stood in the rain, alongside a Princeton Golden Maple tree that was about to stand in honor of two mothers on Earth Day. The first, Mother Earth, because it was the 50th anniversary of Ea...

Wendling Quarry makes the earth move under our feet

On Wednesday morning around 11:30 a.m. Wending Quarry opened the Vinton Quarry located on 24th Ave. Dr. just north of the airport. Residents said that their house shook and some ran outside think...

Lisa Murray receives 2020 Building Bridges Outstanding Educator Award

 Congratulations to Lisa Murray for being named a Building Bridges Outstanding Educator Award through the Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA)! Lisa is one of four educators from across the G...

Local communications company/VSCSD partner to solve internet access for students

EcoVision aka U.S. Cellular to assist VSCSD students with internet access Thanks to EcoVision, Inc., the authorized U.S. Cellular dealer in Vinton, and the Vinton Shellsburg School District, 40 Vinton-Shellsburg families who didn’t have internet access from home will soon...

The State of Vinton, April 2020

The office of Sara Stuefen reflects many of the businesses in downtown Vinton at this time. COVID-19 and Vinton In an event that our generation has never seen before, a virus called COVID-19 was discovered to have reached our shores. As a result, nearly 30 days ago Governor Kim Reynold...

Warning: Criminals Found PosIng as CDC Representatives to Steal Money and Info

CDC is warning the general public of a new type of phone and phishing scam by criminals posing as CDC representatives, often requesting donations.  According to CDC, most of these fraudulent activit...

9-1-1 What's your emergency?

It's National Telecommunicators Week!I'm sure most of us have called 9-1-1 before. Usually, it's at the worst time of your life. Things are desperately wrong, or someone has been hurt or there's a fir...

Lamont, Lang headed for NJ to fight COVID-19

We live in a time where we need heroes more than we've needed them in a long, long time. Not the kind who wear helmets or sneakers, or the kind who carry hammers or shields; no, we need the kind who c...

Easter Bunny practiced Social Distancing with a wave to children in Garrison

The Garrison Fire Auxiliary (Garrison Emergency Services) hosted a different sort of Easter Egg Hunt this year, during social distancing. The Auxillary cut, colored and decorated paper Easter Eggs and...