Can I mow the lawn, Dad? Please!?!?!?! Can I mow the lawn NOW?!?!?!?! No, I was not dreaming. Youngest Kid – like most of her older siblings in previous years – was indeed pleading for permission to cut the grass.

Hello everyone! I would like to take this opportunity to publically thank all of you in the community who supported my trip to Cuba, especially Blessed Hope Church.

Today's bombings at the Boston Marathon took place during Boston's official "Patriot's Day" celebration, and just four days before the 18th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set of a large fertilizer bomb in a truck outside the Alfred P.

I dreamed last night that I read a breaking news story from the year 2023: "A federal grand jury has indicted dozens of members of Congress for using illegal performance-enhancing substances during what has been called the 'Season of Spectacular Success' – the ‘Miracle Years’ between 2013 and 2019, when Congress balanced the budget, eliminated the need for foreign oil, reduced carbon emissions, permanently solved the Mexican border issue, drastically reduced the national crime rate and even eliminated all murders from the Greater Washington, D.

PARENTS!  GRANDPARENTS!   COMMUNITY FINE ARTS SUPPORTERS! RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REDUCTIONS IN OUR FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT STAFF IN THE VS SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD.

What a night! A TOTAL surprise! Many thanks to the Vinton Women's Club for our 2013 Woman of the Year honor selection. How blessed I am to be in the company of, and feel the love from family friends.

The 11th of March marked our 3rd birthday here at Vinton Today.  It was also a record breaking day for the most visits in one day! As we pass our third birthday, I for one am simply pleased with the response of our wonderful community! Having only worked with the "traditional" newspapers, I wasn't real sure how this was going to work.

  You never know when a phone call is going to change your life. I walked into the Vinton Family Restaurant as a grandfather, and left as a chicken farmer.

  In a bacon and egg breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig makes a personal sacrifice.   Now, I'm not saying Joseph was a chicken, but his initial decision about ending his relationship with Mary was a safe one, for him.

By Kim Davis       These past few weeks I have definitely been feeling some Viking Pride with Vinton qualifying for State basketball and Grand View wrestling winning the NAIA Wrestling National Champion title.