Cracker Barrel is for Triple Trumpers

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 19, 2025 7:04 pm

As a news gal, I try to keep my ear to the ground on everything happening around us. Not only locally, but at the state and federal level and the insanity on the "interweb" in the culture around us.

Letter to the Editor: PBS and NPR

VINTON TODAY
August 18, 2025 8:30 pm

To The Editor,It is not surprising that the Editor does not know what is on PBS and NPR. You would have to be willing to want to learn something to turn on the channel.

Wait, wait..Don't tell me...

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 17, 2025 5:07 pm

It's another week and another cut in funding for, something that should be self reliant. The Corporation of Public Broadcasting announced that it would be shutting down after their allowance got cut off.

Letter to the Editor: She's Baaaack!

VINTON TODAY
August 17, 2025 4:17 pm

To The Editor,Gaslighting according to WebMD “happens when one person convinces their target that they're remembering things wrong or misinterpreting events.

Money, money, money

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 11, 2025 1:37 pm

The last four years, pre-Trump, were awful. I mean awful in every way that you can think. I will say that they were the worst on the bank account. But then I think morally it may have been worse.

Before there was American Eagle, there was Lee

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 6, 2025 10:59 am

It seems that my eyeballs are on the permanent eye roll setting. The latest was the attempt to make the American Eagle brand into some sort of branch of the Nazis.

Letter to the Editor: Salute to our City Workers

VINTON TODAY
August 1, 2025 11:41 am

Dear Editor,Recently I've had the opportunity to get involved with some of our city departments. --A few weeks ago I had a question about mosquito spraying and when I called Chris at city hall he not only gave me the phone number of the person I needed to talk to but he called me back the next day to follow up.

Hot Takes: Democrats Campaign, Diddy Did it, Photoshop, BACON, Investigations

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 15, 2025 9:42 pm

In weeding through the news every week, there are tidbits that I scan and have nowhere to put the crazy bits of information. Usually, there are some (what I think) funny or sarcastic responses that roll around in my head.

Letter to the Editor: Thank you to the Fair Board

VINTON TODAY
July 9, 2025 11:46 am

Dear Editor, Kudos to the Benton County Fair Board on a successful 2025 fair. Being on a volunteer fair board can not be an easy job. Everyone has opinions on what needs to be be done, without knowing all the facts.

The Swampiest Swamp is a Swampin'

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 8, 2025 1:59 pm

There have been so many articles written about the unfairness dished out on women from behind this computer. Starting with allowing boys to participate in girls' sports, sometimes injuring them with concussions, broken eye sockets, busted mouths etc.