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Dollars for Nontraditional Scholars
The Wallace Winkie Foundation has expanded the area eligible for its scholarships and is now accepting applications from nontraditional students in Benton, Iowa, Tama, and Poweshiek Counties. Applicat...
Thinking about school, already
These children raised $100 for school supplies for classmates in need with a bake sale/lemonade stand on Wednsesday.
It's not yet August, but some area families have begun shopping for "Back to Sc... Benton County Community Foundation awards $112,775 in grants to local organizations
The Benton County Community Foundation held its annual grant awards ceremony on July 25, announcing the distribution of $112,775 in grants to benefit 31 projects of nonprofits and government agencies ...
Lutheran Home August Ice Cream: Annual Social on Aug. 6; drive-thru every Wednesday
Two favorites involving ice cream will return to the Vinton Lutheran Home in August.
On Sunday, Aug. 6, the annual Ice Cream Social will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. There will e homemade pie, ice c...
Remembering Glen Dale Geiger: Cruise honors long-time participant, months after his death
The shirts that promote the 2017 Vinton Cruise were also a memorial to someone who had attended each event for its first 32 years, and had often entered vehicles for car lovers to see.
Glen Dale Ge... CP HISTORICAL HAD SWEET TALKING ABOUT TRAINS; PLANS FOND REMEMBERING OF FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
By Sharon Hannen
Forty people on July 16 mentally journeyed back to when the Depot Museum was the Center Point Interurban depot and the Cedar Valley Nature Trail was the Waterloo, Cedar F...
2017 Benton County Fair Results
2017 Herdsmanship & Township Winners
Livestock Show results
Statics Results of the 2017 Benton County Fair
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Vinton-Shellsburg Back to School Information, Registration opens July 21
ERegistration for the 2017-18 school year will open on July 21. Please hold questions until August 2 when building secretaries have returned.
On site school registration will be August 8 from 12-7 pm...
Vinton-Shellsburg High School Computer Roll Out Schedule
The Vinton-Shellsburg High School roll-out of computers will be different this year. All registered students entering grades 9-12 at VSHS will continue to get a computer for the 2017-18 school...
Benton County Treasurer's Semi Annual Report
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