New news is still news, even though if some in the old news world don't know it

VINTON TODAY
June 15, 2010 11:10 am

  For some people, the idea of a newspaper that exists only on-line is a surprisingly new, perhaps even radical, idea. But for others, the response seems to have been, “Well, it’s about time you showed up.

Ask before you Act

VINTON TODAY
June 7, 2010 10:39 am

Dear Editor, The gull of some people. I will never understand why it is some people don't have respect for others. I had a tree topped off this past Fri.

Thanks from Jr. Journalist Katie Langstraat

KATIE LANGSTRAAT, JR. JOURNALIST
June 7, 2010 7:50 am

Thank you everyone for the support towards my time as a Junior Journalist. My goal is to write more stories and take more pictures during the summer including my own babysitting blog type story still on the Vinton Today Website though.

Time for new leadership in Iowa

VINTON TODAY
June 3, 2010 12:19 pm

It is time for fresh, new leadership in Iowa - and Rod Roberts is the right man for the job.  For nearly a decade, I have worked in the Iowa House of Representatives, and have seen firsthand that Rod is a true statesman.

Is our education important?

VINTON TODAY
June 2, 2010 10:32 am

As a blind or visually impaired Iowan, I am bothered by the actions taken in the past decades to reduce the quality of education being offered to the blind and visually impaired children of this state.

Is the education of Iowa's visually impaired no longer important?

STEPHANIE HUNOLT, IBSSS ALUMNI ASSOC.
June 2, 2010 10:05 am

As a blind or visually impaired Iowan, I am bothered by the actions taken in the past decades to reduce the quality of education being offered to the blind and visually impaired children of this state.

More graduation advice for 2010 seniors — and the rest of us

VINTON TODAY
May 30, 2010 12:34 pm

  The best graduation speech any one could deliver is to read Dr. Seuss's "Oh the Places You'll Go." Everything else, including this column, is second-best.

Two guys, several places and the answer to one question

VINTON TODAY
May 28, 2010 10:28 am

Two guys once spent a couple of years together, in a big brick building between the courthouse, police station, and post office of a county seat in Iowa.

As I tiptoe through the....what's that??!!!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
May 20, 2010 10:50 am

A few days ago we got the press release from the local PD asking everyone to make sure the yards are kept clean and tidy. I laughed. I remembered.

The Norman Rockwell kind of pride in Vinton

VINTON TODAY
May 18, 2010 11:49 am

"We were humbled," wrote a colleague last week, by the tremendous response to Vinton Today that has already required us to increase the size of our server.