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Long Family takes several wins at the State Fair in Beef Cattle: Shorthorn
Top Honors Awarded in State Fair Shorthorn Cattle ShowFox Shorthorns of Kanawha exhibited the Grand Champion Bull and Champion Iowa Bull in the Shorthorn Cattle show judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair...
Mt. Auburn's Water Utilities gets a new face
Vinton-Shellsburg art students arrived in Mt. Auburn. Armed with a plan, paint brushes and paint the students came to paint a mural on the water utilities building. Lindsay Otto was approached b... Local Winning Whiskers (Longest & Most Historic) from Vinton & Center Point
Winning Whiskers at the Iowa State FairMen from across the Midwest entered their prized whiskers in the Beard Growing contest held Tuesday, August 13, at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.The contest was part ...
Hereford Farms Earn Honors in Iowa State Fair Show
Tyler Davisson of Calamus took home the Grand Champion Horned Female and Champion Iowa Horned Female awards in the Hereford Show judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.Emmett Lovrien of Clarksville receiv...
Mt. Auburn updates on Stop Sign placement and Shelter Removal
"The city of Mt. Auburn will open all sealed bids postmarked no later than September 25, for the ownership of the collapsed Shelter Building including removal and disposal of all structure material ex... Vinton Shellsburg Homecoming Week
It's that time of the year! It's time for Vinton-Shellsburg's Homecoming week. This year the Vinton Vikings will face West Marshall of State Center for their Homecoming game.On Monday, the process had... FFA Vegetable Exhibitors Win State Fair Honors
70 exhibitors showed nearly 700 vegetables in the FFA Horticulture competition judged Thursday, August 8, at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.Dakota Lopata of the Vinton-Shellsburg FFA won the High Point Exhi...
FFA Ag Mechanics Competition Revs-Up Its Engine at the Iowa State Fair
Eighty restored tractors along with metalworking and woodworking entries won top awards in the Agricultural Mechanics Technology competition judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.Complete results follow:...
Iowa Celebrates AmeriCorps 30th Anniversary
To celebrate the wrap up of AmeriCorps' year-long 30-year anniversary celebration, AmeriCorps and Volunteer Iowa celebrated with a one-day event on Friday, September 13, 2024. One hundred and fifty Am... Changes in the Law, require updates to Vinton Ordinances
Several laws in Iowa have changed so the City of Vinton now has to update its own ordinances/laws. The State of Iowa's laws went into effect as of July 1, 2024. Here are the ordinances that will be ch...