It's Labor Day - Get off the Computer!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
September 2, 2019 7:35 am

Yep, as usual, I've been plugging stories onto the website for the email today and it hit me, that most of the world is enjoying a day off today. Some with family, some with friends.

A Lousy, Rotten, Good Day

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 30, 2019 9:41 am

I hope I'm the only one that has one of these once in a while. Last week it was one of those days. Nothing particular triggered it, but it was a day of reflection and that was not a good thing to do, but once you're there, you're there.

Shut the front door...or don't

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 27, 2019 7:44 pm

I knew as soon as I shut the door and closed my hand around my keys that I did it again. I grabbed my camera, my list, yes my handwritten list which I USUALLY leave on the table and then I locked the door, shut it and headed to the car.

Ya did it now, you broke the internet, well, the website anyway....

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 27, 2019 9:46 am

We haven't had this problem for a long time, so it was difficult to decide what was going on. All I could tell my tech guy was, "I can't get on to the website! HELP!" I told him what I could see on my end, he did what he could on his end and we were back.

Journal Entry: Vinton Sesquicentennial

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 26, 2019 9:45 am

Well now, you can't say that Vinton doesn't know how to throw a party!The exhaustion I feel tonight, er, this morning lays at the feet of one Ms. Melissa Schwan.

Out of Bounds

JEFF HOLMES
August 26, 2019 9:09 am

Being the political animal that I am, I am naturally following all of the activity as the Democrats position themselves for the Iowa Caucuses early next year.

Sheryl, the shoes are in your she-shed, maybe

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 19, 2019 10:34 am

I admit it, I HATE shopping. Hate it, hate it, hate it! I don't know why, it was just never my thing...maybe because for the mom of 6 you can't afford for it to be your thing unless it's at the grocery store.

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 14, 2019 6:35 am

There are things that I absolutely love about this job, that wouldn't be the part where I have to figure out technology, but the part where I get to meet some of the most awesome people in our corner of the world.

Letter to the Editor: A Person of Color

VINTON TODAY
August 2, 2019 9:37 am

Editor: The so-called “squad” (Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley)  say they are people of “color”.  Well, I’m a person of color as well; particularly when I was out in the July sun all day cultivating corn – yep I was tan.

No, no don't do it Charity!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 16, 2019 7:51 am

To those of you that know me well, know that I tend to think in musical terms, not so much quarter note, and treble clefs, but in actual songs. They say that when a song gets stuck in your head you have an earworm.