Brishell and Christina: Each deserve a moment of silence

VINTON TODAY
January 10, 2011 1:05 pm

       Christina Green had just joined her school’s Student Council.      Brishell Jones was preparing to go to culinary school.

Giffords shooting makes Americans face again the questions raised by evil acts

VINTON TODAY
January 8, 2011 9:14 pm

    Speaking to a nation bitterly divided and nearing the end of a bloody, soul-searing Civil War, Abraham Lincoln first took a stand.

Working in your PJ's

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 7, 2011 12:37 pm

Vinton Today gave us a chance to try something many dream of, but never get the chance to do....work from home.   Before you try it, you have this idea that you will sit at your computer in your jammies, with a hot cup of coffee, while you work.

Advice and definitions for city-dwelling farm writers

VINTON TODAY
January 7, 2011 10:34 am

       In order to enlighten us city folk journalists about the realities of farm life so we can write better stories about farming, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and the Iowa Newspaper Association sponsor occasional educational events for city-born farm writers.

Regifting etiquette: Making the most of Christmas 2011

VINTON TODAY
January 7, 2011 10:05 am

       After learning what you received for Christmas from friends, family, neighbors, customers, associates, and your ex-sister-in-law’s first husband’s second cousin, whom you may or may not have briefly dated in college, you now know exactly how many of those gifts you plan to give to someone else next Christmas.

'Moonbeam' history

VINTON TODAY
January 4, 2011 5:21 pm

       A 30-year-old nickname that made its way back to the headlines of early 2011 has had many in the American media digging up old newspaper articles to find out why, and how, California’s new – and former – top excecutive ended up being labeled as “Governor Moonbeam.

Keep Facebook about faces, PLEASE!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 3, 2011 11:37 am

Tonight I turned on the computer after a few hours completely off line, checked into Facebook, had those warm fuzzies as I commented about how we had just had our whole family out for our Christmas get together, and how fun it was to see everyone around, and how I was feeling so blessed that everyone is happy and healthy.

Provoking your New Year's agitations with force and persuasion

VINTON TODAY
January 3, 2011 11:21 am

       Every year at this time, we hear people talking again about "resolutions."      Lose weight.

Old Long Gone Song: An ode to resolutions soon forgotten

VINTON TODAY
January 3, 2011 11:21 am

       It only takes, according to people who like to count this stuff, about 17 days for the average American to say, "Oh, never mind" to his or her New Year's Resolutions.

The sights and sounds of a prison in progress

VINTON TODAY
January 3, 2011 11:21 am

       In a few months, perhaps, the unwilling occupants of the new Benton County Law Enforcement Center will hear the sound most-often associated with prisons: The echo of a door clanging shut.