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VS: 2hr Late Start 3-6

VSCSD: Due to the weather, there will be 2hr Late Start, Tuesday March 6 w/ No AM PK... Be safe on your way to school! Reminder: School IS IN SESSION March 16 due to our snow day in Feb.

4th annual Swellest Little Spring Tea on the Lincoln Highway

   On Saturday, April 28, bottomless pots of brewed tea, tea sandwiches, cakes, cookies, and other delicacies, along with live music and entertainment, will fill the Family Life Center at 1523 Sunset Drive, Belle Plaine.

Rural Vinton woman dies in farm accident

Suzanne Hollenbeck, 71, died in a farm accident in rural Vinton Monday morning March 5. Benton County Sheriff's Office personnel and the North Benton Ambulance service were dispatched around 8: 30 a.

VS: 2hr Late Start 3-6

VSCSD: Due to the weather, there will be 2hr Late Start, Tuesday March 6 w/ No AM PK... Be safe on your way to school! Reminder: School IS IN SESSION March 16 due to our snow day in Feb.
Article Thumbnail. At the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum students hear a message of service and sacrifice of Iowa veterans

VSHS American Humanities Class visits Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum

[et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Students from Vinton-Shellsburg high school's American Humanities class recently visited the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo, accompanied by local veterans of the armed services.

Animal house: Galkowskis, Humane Society reach settlement

The settlement reached this week regarding the animals seized from the Vinton home of Marshall and Barbara Galkowski is "a very good outcome for the animals, the City of Vinton, and the taxpayers," says Benton County Attorney David Thompson.