Happy New Year!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 29, 2022 10:11 am

I will be taking off on Friday and Monday over the New Year holiday. No, I won't be flying off to some exotic location or doing anything spectacular. I'll be working, but not on anything that you will see on the website.

Letter to the Editor: Your tired, your hungry, your poor

VINTON TODAY
December 27, 2022 10:27 am

Dear Editor, Is there a second Statue of Liberty on the border between the United States and Mexico?  I thought it was outside New York.  "Give us your tired, your hungry, your poor".

Letter to the Editor: If we aren't happy is it our fault? Or...

VINTON TODAY
December 18, 2022 5:23 pm

Editor:          In the opinion page of the C.R. Gazette and the D.M. Register today Nov. 27 there is nothing right with the world.

Letter to the Editor: The assault of the Institution of Marriage continues

VINTON TODAY
December 15, 2022 11:08 am

Dear Editor,The Neo-Dems continued their attack on our society, our institutions, and our families today with the signing of the ludicrously named “Respect for Marriage Act”.

Letter to the Editor: Time to Move On

VINTON TODAY
December 9, 2022 10:15 am

Dear Editor, Did you hear George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and others turn over in their graves and mutter a collective, "You've got to be kidding me" recently?  I did!  Donald Trump, this country's former president with the biggest ego ever, wants the Constitution changed for him.

Letter to the Editor: Benefits to Vinton Living

VINTON TODAY
December 1, 2022 10:53 pm

Dear Editor, Vinton is the place to be; to live. I speak from my position of an 85. year old male living in a local nursing home. My wife arrived in Vinton three years ago, me two.

Vinton, the City of Christmas Lights

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 1, 2022 10:36 pm

Part of the fun of Christmas is the build-up to the big day, December 25th. The Christmas wish lists, the smuggling gifts into the house to be wrapped and hidden or snuck under the tree.

How mosquitoes came to Hawaii, Science Edition

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
November 28, 2022 11:38 am

Sometimes I read something that leaves me scratching my head. Like this one in the Iowa Capital Dispatch entitled, "How mosquitoes came to Hawaii."Now, the Iowa Capital Dispatch is a left-leaning publication, that I usually take a gander at in the mornings.

Letter to the Editor: Something to Consider

VINTON TODAY
November 22, 2022 4:01 pm

Dear Editor,  It doesn't matter if you vote red or blue, this is a humanity issue & it affects every one of you.   For every hospital, doctor, nurse, health care professional, health care worker, & mortician as well, you are being called out.

Reading my mind: 1st Amendment

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
November 15, 2022 1:25 pm

A few weeks ago I had a note disagreeing with something I said. Then the writer ask me not to cite what was said, so I won't but there was one line that made my mouth drop open for a couple of reasons.