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4 Union High School Vocalists honored at Iowa All-State Auditions

  Congratulations go out to the Union High School Vocal Music department on their outstanding showing at All-State auditions on Saturday October 20th in Hampton. 1 UHS vocalist was chosen to...

2018 Vinton Christmas Ornaments Available

The 2018 Vinton Christmas Ornaments are now available! Melissa Schwan said that this year’s ornament features the Benton County Fair. Ornaments are available at Arnold Motor Supply, Cam...

SHE MATTERS- Barriers for Iowa Women

SHE MATTERS- Barriers for Iowa women including a Daycare Crisis -75% of the elderly poor are women and 82% of them were not poor before they became widows -Iowa women earn 77% of what men earn wh...

Vinton Popcorn Company seeks community input

Vinton Popcorn Company is making changes.   At Vinton Popcorn, we would like to discover what flavors of popcorn everyone would like to see from us by answering to the poll b...

Cards of Love: Area riders plan motorcycle gathering in honor of Yvonne Zimpfer

For years, the Ron-Da-Voo has been a place for motorcycle riders to gather for fun, friendship and occasionally, benefit rides such as the Special Olympics Ride Rick and Yvonne Zimpfer, who are m...

Fareway Ambushed

Fareway Ambushed Today Vinton Unlimited and a group of its members visited Fareway to "Ambush" the local business. Ambushing area businesses is a recent activity started by Vinton Unlimited to just sa...

Harris and Baldwin arrested in Cedar Rapids

April Baldwin On August 9th, the Vinton Police Department asked for the public's help to locate Kody Harris and April Baldwin. The two had been involved in a vehicle pursuit. Harris was wanted by federal...

VSHS NHS welcomes new members during annual Induction

The Vinton-Shellsburg National Honor Society chapter welcomed several new members during Monday's induction ceremony. Officers conducted the official NHS ceremony, highlighting the traits of ...

VSHS Band ends season with 3rd place trophy director calls it 'best performance

The Vinton-Shellsburg Marching Band Regiment wrapped up its 2018 season with its best performance of the year, says director Nick Waymire. The band came home from the Waukee Invitational with the...

Kiwanis Install New Officers

2018 Kiwanis Officers Installed The Kiwanis Club of Vinton, met on Tuesday at LaReyna where they had their weekly meeting. At this meeting they installed their new president Tom Husnik. Husnik was preceded by Past Presiden...