Pastor's Blog: The beauty of worshipping together during Holy Week

REV. JIM BLAIR, BLESSED HOPE CHURCH
April 10, 2012 11:13 am

              I would like to compliment each and every person who got up early to attend one or more of the ecumenical Holy Week services here in our city of Vinton.

Pastor's Blog - Easter Sunday and the Resurrection of the Dead

ZACH ZAJICEK
April 5, 2012 7:15 pm

  Have you ever heard the phrase, “Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales”?  There’s even a song titled with this phrase.  I’m not sure how popular the song is (the song I viewed on YouTube only had 132 hits), but I’m quite sure that thoughts of death and the dead are not popular.

A grandfather's moment to celebrate nature and progress

VINTON TODAY
April 4, 2012 9:43 am

  Ari (short for Arianna) got halfway across the bridge and sat down. It was a moment this grandpa has been dreaming of for years. Nobody noticed in the spring of 2003, shortly after I arrived in Vinton, that I had begun clearing the brush and weeds from the woods and pasture of the area we still call "Grandpa's farm, although he's been gone for almost 10 years.

We just had to ask... ourselves

VINTON TODAY
March 30, 2012 4:54 pm

    Vinton Today Editor Dean Close has been asking some silly questions of area people. So we thought it only fair that he have to answer them for himself.

A 'changed forever' NYC now is home to Tim Tebow

VINTON TODAY
March 30, 2012 4:36 pm

 “Are you ready for some Tim Tebow? You better be, because he’s coming to your town and he wants to party down.” Those are some of the lamest words written about the quarterback in a weekend full of lame words.

Give me liberty: Remembering America's first famous speech

VINTON TODAY
March 19, 2012 12:27 pm

  I spent the weekend the best way possible, hanging out with the granddaughters while their parents were at a Dare to Share event in St. Louis.

RAGBRAI: Sit back and enjoy the ride-through

VINTON TODAY
March 8, 2012 10:48 pm

  "RAGBRAI is not like it was years ago," said an organizer who came to Washington, Iowa, a dozen years ago. I was working for the newspaper there when RAGBRAI riders spent a night in that county seat, 87 miles south of Vinton, a few miles west of Highway 218.

Pastor's Blog - RECKLESS GRACE: FORGIVENESS AND RESTORATION

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
March 8, 2012 2:33 pm

  Luke 15:11-32 Kate Braestrup in her book, Beginner's Grace, tells a story about her own "prodigal son," Peter (pp.

I'm from the country, and I like it!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 6, 2012 4:10 pm

So many time as I head out of the huge city of Vinton to my humble abode in the country, I ponder how privileged we are to live where we do. I marvel at the lack of whining you hear among neighbors who live on this road.

Letter to the Editor - Copper theft hits local REC; group asks for new law

VINTON TODAY
March 6, 2012 3:08 pm

  Dear Editor, Across the country and here in Iowa theft of precious metals (including copper, aluminum and bronze) is on the rise from abandoned buildings, empty houses and most dangerously, from power lines along rural roads, electric cooperative power substations and storage facilities.