Pastor's Blog - 'He could have given up!'

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
April 20, 2012 8:21 am

  I Corinthians 13:7   Love Endures All Things Jesus, who was one with God, infinite and all powerful, could have called it quits when he found out he was to be confined to the finite space of a womb and the weakness and frailty of a human body.

10 years...

VINTON TODAY
April 19, 2012 9:03 am

Venus was looking over my shoulder. I wonder what Grandpa would have thought of that. I am sitting, right now, on the concrete slab that when I was born was used to support the metal framework of a corn crib.

A sad reminder of what opponents have in common

VINTON TODAY
April 17, 2012 12:13 pm

  This afternoon, when the Vinton-Shellsburg boys track team travels to the Solon track meet (although the event is being held in Tiffin due to construction on the Solon track), it will be encountering a city, and a school district, in mourning.

Letter to the Editor-New taxes coming

JOHN STIEGELMEYER
April 11, 2012 12:43 pm

  New taxes coming with the Affordable Health Care Act: (1) Individual and employment mandates to purchase health insurance. (2) Medicare Payroll tax hike from 2.

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.