If you build it, they will come: Broadband Project Vote Tonight

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 12, 2019 6:59 am

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 the construction of a fiber network will proceed by accepting the bids from contractors to set the project in motion.

Tips for Laying a Military Member to Rest with Class

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 7, 2019 7:33 am

When the time comes to lay a veteran to rest, if you're like we were, you want the very best.One of the things we discovered is how to make a military funeral, be all that it can be.

Letter to the Editor: Free Stuff is not Free

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 29, 2019 10:49 am

Dear Editor – one more rant: Kamala Harris and all the others wanna-bees for Dem nomination want and talk of Medicare for all.  I am on Medicare and have been since I turned 65.

Zero Degrees

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 28, 2019 12:54 pm

I don't often get upset when people think I'm stupid. That's okay. As a matter of fact, I've gotten too good at acting like I don't know things. (there are so many directions I could go with just those two sentences.

Letter to the Editor: Roe vs. Wade

VINTON TODAY
January 24, 2019 9:40 pm

Dear Editor,"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"46 years ago, our country passed a law that legalized the killing of babies.

Off Roading down the Road

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 18, 2019 8:59 pm

I love living in the country, I really do. Except with it's icy. Or when the snow is so deep that it's drifted higher than the minivan, which happened one year.

When Life Isn't Normal

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 5, 2019 3:44 pm

I like life to be boring. Dull. Mundane. Occasionally a bit of excitement is alright if it's a good kind of excitement. I like there to be a routine.

Letter to the Editor Cc: Leader Pelosi-Sen. Grassley,-Sen. Ernst, Pres. Trump

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 26, 2018 7:24 pm

Dear Senator Schumer:        Cc: Leader Pelosi, Senator Grassley, Senator Earnst, President Trump You describe Pres Trump’s insistence on border security as a “temper tantrum”.

Letter to the Editor: To Representative Gutierrez of Illinois

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 23, 2018 5:19 pm

Editor: Written to REP Gutierrez of Illinois You can read to whole deal @  Representative Gutierrez: I have read your 6 minute dressing down of Sec Kirstjen Nielsen – that was most unfair.

It's NOT News, but...Technology

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 12, 2018 5:26 pm

...I have had it with technology. You know the drill, technology is great when it works, but when it doesn't, well in my case, I simply can't work.