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Be nice to bike trails and they"™ll be nice to you: Avoid riding in muddy conditions

By Ashley Hesson, VORC No doubt about it, this has been a weird winter. But then again, we did have record floods in September last fall. And then 50 degrees in February? Surely not! Except that da...

Rural Keystone fire claims two lives; one escapes through window

Firefighters remain at a rural Keystone residence today, trying to determine the cause of a fire that claimed the lives of two adult men and forced a woman in the house to escape the smoke and flames ...

VS students raise $1,500 for Gualtier documentary

VSHS Student Senate members presented producer Brent Wilkins a check for $1,500 to help complete the documentary on the life of John Gualtier. The Vinton-Shellsburg High School Student Senate led ...

Virginia Gay Nursing and Rehab Receives 11 Customer Care Awards

[et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Jessica Henkle, RN-BC, and director of Virginia ...

First, the tornado, then a fire: Vinton man faces another housing challenge

A Vinton construction company owner who lost his home in the tornado last July faces another challenge now that the househe rents has caught fire. The Vinton Fire Department was sent to 316 East Ni...

Community invited to join effort to help foster care graduates

By Erin Monaghan As part of our Community Partnership for Protecting Children initiative, Benton-Iowa Decat will be helping area youth in foster care celebrate their graduation from high school and...

2017 Boomtown Vinton faces change; large shell display may not take place

By Tami Stark, Boomtown Committee After a meeting between administration at St. Mary's Catholic Church and Iowa Pyrotechnic President, Chuck Yedlik and Past President/Lifetime Grand Master Cha...

Flood protection: FEMA to fund study on protecting fire station, other 'critical' services

City crews and volunteers add the second layer of Hesco barriers to a flood wall protecting VMEU buildings on Friday. FEMA is studying the possibility of moving the Vinton fire station and other local services, away from the flood plain. The Vinton City Council learned at tonight's meeting that the Federal Emerge...

Vinton council approves Social Host ordinance

Maybe, says Above the Coalition President Greg Walston, the Social Host ordinance passed Thursday by the Vinton City Council will help the community prevent some of the things that happened in the pas...

Slaymaker Recognized for 30 Years of Service

The State of Iowa Judicial Branch is pleased to announce the following recipients of the Sixth Judicial District's annual awards, to be formally presented at a reception on February 20, 2017, at ...