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Wallace Winkie Foundation Receives Humanities Iowa Grant for Project with Pella Historical Society and Museums
The Wallace Winkie Foundation (WWF) has received a grant award of $500 from Humanities Iowa, a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in support of a project calledTombsto...
Street smarts: 3rd, 13th projects causing headaches for Vinton leaders
Many cracks on 13th Street have been blamed on a subgrade put in place without soil samples taken beforehand.
At recent Vinton City Council meetings, leaders have been discussing problems with one... Joel Olson, Olson Spot Farm and M & N Show Pigs Sweep Spotted Swine Show at Iowa State Fair
Pink Genetics of Douds took home the Grand Champion Gilt honors at the Spotted Swine Show judged Thursday, August 18, at the 2017 Iowa State Fair.
Niehaus and Feldman Genetics of Greene exhibited t...
Honors Awarded in English Society Horse Show at Iowa State Fair
The English Society Horse Shows took place August 15 through 17 in the Richard O. Jacobson Exhibition Center at the 2017 Iowa State Fair.
Complete results below:
Five-Gaited Open
1) Keith Equ...
Center Point Historical Society to hold Cemetery Walk
On September 24 the Center Point Historical Society will hold their 7th annual Center Point Cemetery Walk at 4 p.m.
Admission is $5. Please arrange for your own golf cart if needed.
In case of r...
FFA Exhibitors Compete for Supreme Breeding Beef Honors at the Iowa State Fair
Payton Vogel of Hartley- Melvin- Sanborn exhibited the Supreme Female Champion in the FFA Breeding Beef show held Thursday at the 2017 Iowa State Fair.
Hannah Mitchell of Lenox won the Reserve Supr...
Super Heroes: Roberts family feeling the love of many as Kamryn fights cancer
Kameron Roberts and his parents,Tyler and Tara Roberts and Kara Toms, have learned just how many people are there for him since Kameron, age 7, was diagnosed with cancer on July 19.
Fund-raisers, d... Former Benton Development Group Director Sentenced for Felony Theft in the First Degree; Restitution totalling $60,910.85 ordered to be repaid
On Thursday, August 31, 2017 Ranae Leanne Becker, age 47, of Vinton, Iowa, appeared in the Iowa District Court in and for Benton County for pronouncement of judgment and sentence. Previously, on July ...
Raegan's Tornado Relief : 12-year-old also helps hurricane victims, others
Raegan Junge reads a note she wrote for hurrican victims receiving the donated items she is shipping to a Red Cross shelter in Texas, as her friend and neighbor Payton Armstrong helps fill the box.
... Lillibridge and Meyer place in Miniature Hereford Farms Contest at Iowa State Fair Show
Rjtnt Farm of Lawler exhibited the Grand Champion Bull and the Champion Iowa Bull in the Miniature Herford Cattle Show judged August 18 at the 2017 Iowa State Fair.
Smith Mini Herefords of Fairfiel...