To The Editor: 'Blanket of Blame' covers more than just teachers

VINTON TODAY
January 25, 2013 12:11 pm

By Daryn J. Hamilton   To the Editor: I would like an opportunity to respond to the Opinion: VS top 25 ranking is nothing to be happy about Mr.

To the Editor: VS top 25 ranking is nothing to be happy about

JEFF TILSON
January 23, 2013 6:16 pm

Vinton-Shellsburg Schools ranked #25 in the State To the Editor: Just reading the headline on this letter, one would think that we've achieved a distinction worthy of public attention.

Letter to the Editor: Better security technology is the answer

JOHN STIEGELMEYER
January 20, 2013 5:01 pm

Recently on one of Neil Cavuto's shows a security executive explained how the "man trap" works. It would not matter whether a staffer were in the school or not.

Pastor's Blog - JOY INTO OUR LONGEST NIGHT

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
January 11, 2013 11:55 am

  Friday, Decemter 21, was the first day of winter, the longest night of the year.  On that day, the sun rose at 7:38 am and set at 4:48 pm.

The unseen sign of growing old

VINTON TODAY
January 8, 2013 4:51 pm

  Signs of aging, for me, are nothing new. Most of them however, I have been able to see clearly. Like the day the radar gun said my 12-year-old could throw a baseball way faster than I could.

How remembering 2012 should (but probably won't) inspire changes

VINTON TODAY
January 2, 2013 11:59 am

The President was named the Time Magazine "Man of the Year" after defeating a stiff, boring, flip-flopping rich dude from Massachusetts.  The president -- whose party had lost big in the mid-term elections two years earlier -- ran his campaign by bragging about making America more secure by eliminating one of America's biggest enemies.

Pastor's Blog - THE LONGEST NIGHT

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
December 20, 2012 1:41 am

  Friday, Decemter 21, is the first day of winter, the longest night of the year.  On that day, the sun will rise at 7:38 am and set at 4:48 pm.

First rule of winter driving safety: DON'T!

VINTON TODAY
December 19, 2012 1:20 pm

  (Editor's Note: The following op-ed piece is brought to you again this year by the car insurance industry, law enforcement, ambulance services and towing companies from any place where winter weather has produced driving hazards -- especially humans.

The wonderful world wide web

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 13, 2012 6:20 am

As I glance across the top of my screen, I see that I have 10 screens open. I am waiting for a picture to download, and I started thinking about what I'd really like for Christmas.

Watershed address: Why to understand where water goes after the rain

LARRY STONE
December 10, 2012 8:20 pm

    It’s a sultry July night in Muscatine County – and the fish are biting! But John can’t decide whether to keep or throw back the scrappy channel cat he just caught under a snag in the Cedar River.