Opinion
Letter to the Editor: PSA of the day - “Be kind people.”
Dear Editor,I called the county engineers office this morning. As soon as the lady on the other end of the phone answered and I started to speak I could tell she was bracing herself. I told her my na...
I can't believe it's been a year already
I love Facebook memories.Well, sorta-ish.Today a memory popped up from Aunt Kathy's funeral which was a year ago today.I had posted this:'What's on my mind? My heart that is just bursting with pride ...
Some things don't change from generation to generation, fortunately
We finally celebrated Christmas, yes we did. In March.
Hey, I keep saying we need to adopt another holiday that's not so hectic like groundhog day or something.
The majority of my kids I ...
The Joy of Email
I've always been the one that wanted to sit at the feet of older people and just listen to their stories. Actually, I can remember doing that very thing at a couple's house, when I was a little child...
Breaker, breaker, this is Pink Sweater wishing you a fond farewell
I suppose to kids today, a CB radio is as foreign to them as a rotary dial telephone, well almost as foreign as a landline.My first introduction to a CB was back in the '70's.My uncle Harley owned a ... The Hills are alive, with the sound of Hoof beats
As I prepared to leave for tonight's City Council meeting I heard a bunch of rustling in my evergreen trees lining the front of my lawn just a few feet from my front door.
Now living out here alo... Iowa Donor Network Celebrates 25 years of Organ Donation: From a Donor Family
Almost 15 years ago. our family lost one of the best guys that I knew in the world, my father in law.
At the time we were still recovering from a couple of other losses in the same branch of the ...
Letter to the Editor: Speak Up for the Little Ones
Dear Editor,
For too long I have been silent on the topic of abortion. I consider and pray that our nation would value unborn lives, but I have felt a strong need to speak up and encourage others to...
Letter to the Editor: Benton County should follow Vinton with Broadband
Congrats!!!
To the City of Vinton and to the efforts by your publication in support of the affirmative vote on the broadband project. The determined effort over the past f...
If you build it, they will come: Broadband Project Vote Tonight
The VMEU Board will decide the fate of Vinton's Broadband project. at their meeting tonight, February 12th, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at City Hall. The Vinton Municipal Electric Utility will decide if ...