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Earth Day: Residents learn at Rodgers Park, improve VORC bike trail
Children (and adults) sat captivated as they watched raptor exports hold and discuss an owl and a hawk. Other children (and adults) worked to make the bike trails near Riverside Park better places for... Vikings, Vikettes to represent VS at Drake Relays
Conner Bendull is one of 3 Vikings who will compete in two relay events at the Drake Relays.
Seven Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings and four VS Vikettes will be among hundreds of Iowa high school athlete... V-S FFA Members Compete at Northeast FFA District Convention
On March 11th, 2017, 15 Vinton-Shellsburg FFA members went to Monticello high school in Monticello, Iowa to compete at our Northeast District Convention. The day is filled with many differen... We are better together
We quietly passed the 7th anniversary of Vinton Today, and once again we would appreciate any support you might be willing to give.
Giving you the news free of charge is what we do. We receive suppor... Stressed Brains Can't Learn: "Paper Tigers" documentary on trauma-informed education to screen at Vinton-Shellsburg High School
Several area organizations have teamed together to host a screening of Paper Tigers, a film that captures the pain, danger, beauty and hopes of struggling teens "” and the teachers armed with new...
AmeriCorps Campus Director: We love our town, our facility
The latest AmeriCorps induction took place in March in the IBSSS gym.
(Editor's Note: This is one of a series of stories about the Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School campus, and the AmeriCorps N... It's been 7 years, (and 23,373,407 pageviews) can you believe it?
Last month, we quietly rolled past our 7th anniversary as Vinton Today.
It's been a pretty amazing ride, and is it awful to say even I wasn't so sure how this was going to work?
But after a mere...
Judy Lorraine Andrews
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Judy Lorraine Andrews, 71, passed away peacefully on April 12, 2017 at Sunnycrest Nursing Center in Dysart.
Memorial Services will be held at 2 PM, Friday, April 21, 2017 at Phillips Funer... Brush With Kindness: Open House shows much interest in housing repair program
Participants took turns painting a house on a white board, sharing information and asking questions about the Habitat for Humanity's Brush With Kindness open house last week.
"We have a lot of ... Aerial platform truck arrives at VFD
Members of the Vinton Fire Department have been busier than usual over the past few months as they worked to update their vehicle fleet.
First, the VFD received an offer from the federal government...