Christmas at the White House: A Comedic Commentary

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 3, 2024 10:48 pm

Ah, Christmas at the White House. A time for cheer, unity, and apparently... surreal design choices that beg for commentary.Let’s start with the star of the show: the “tree-mendous” Christmas tree.

Letter to the Editor: Do the work! Part 2

VINTON TODAY
December 3, 2024 10:52 am

Dear Editor,I have some very large expectations of the second Trump administration and its accomplishment of the primary goals of the Republican Party – everyone in the administration needs to “Do the work!” .

Letter to the Editor: Election and the Aftermath

VINTON TODAY
November 26, 2024 2:59 pm

To The Editor: Before the election, I among others, tried to bring to light the roadmap that the Heritage Foundation wrote for a new Republican administration called Project 2025.

Letter to the Editor: Deport non-citizen felons

VINTON TODAY
November 26, 2024 11:31 am

Dear Editor: Why are certain mayors protecting non-citizen criminals?    Denver and Chicago --  Including the Governor of Illinois they are about to violate federal law and may be prosecuted in Federal Court.

Letter to the Editor: Ideas for Old Creamery Nature Trail

VINTON TODAY
November 19, 2024 3:41 pm

Dear Editor, For the residents of Vinton and surrounding area who are interested in exercise, nature and trail activity, do you really want to see the entrance to the Old Creamery Nature Trail at West 8th St.

Letter to the Editor: On the Threshold of WWIII

VINTON TODAY
November 19, 2024 12:42 pm

Dear Editor,At the beginning of this week Sweden, Finland and Norway told their people to prepare for war.  Sweden has not been to war in over 200 years.

Letter to the Editor: Do the Work

VINTON TODAY
November 11, 2024 11:59 am

Dear Editor,In December, 1957 – about a week or so before Christmas, my dad went to the hospital for minor surgery.  He never came home.  Honestly, I don’t have a lot of memories of that day, but I have many of my mom.

Letter to the Editor: The Guns Went Silent

VINTON TODAY
November 10, 2024 7:55 pm

“The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month” . . . the “Guns Went Silent” . . .Throughout my life the first half of this phrase is what folks have always associated with Armistice Day.

Letter to the Editor: Is the glass half full or half empty?

VINTON TODAY
November 8, 2024 10:03 am

Dear Editor:  Is the glass half full or half empty?What political ad was this?????Full text of the ad:“It’s morning again in America.

Election workers rank right up there next to the voters

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
November 7, 2024 8:40 pm

Having worked with the auditor's office a few times to facilitate elections, I know this job is a long hard day of mostly sitting. It sounds simple and for the most part, it is.