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180 Volunteers from Area Churches Prepare and Package over 30,000 meals
By Allyson Brawner
On Saturday February 11th, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Walker hosted a meal packaging event. Over 30,000 meals were packaged over three hours by approximately 180 volunteers.... Tragedy and triumph: Two reminders of the challenges facing firefighters
Jade Pohlmann kisses her spotted Dachshund, Cookie, who was resuscitated after a fire last Monday.
Two different fires, with totally different outcomes, that occurred just one week ago, should ser... Mount Mercy University congratulates February 2017 grads
The student listed below graduated from Mount Mercy University in February 2017. A commencement ceremony will be held Sunday, May 21, 2017, at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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VS educators Islas, Duffy to join Marine recruits for final week of Boot Camp
VSHS teachers Kelly Steffen, left, and Heather Kalous, are pictured with DIs when they attended the Marines educators event in 2011. Two more VS teachers are going next week.
When the current clas... Former North Benton Ambulance office manager Bonlander charged with first degree theft
The Iowa Department of Public Safety has charged a former North Benton Ambulance Service office manager for stealing from the Vinton-based ambulance service.
At around midnight on February 15, 2017, ...
Pettengill Welcomes East-Central Iowa REC Members
This week Rep. Dawn Pettengill (R-Mount Auburn) met with members of East-Central Iowa REC. The group was visiting the Capitol to talk with legislators about energy legislation.
Pictured here are B... University of Dubuque Announces December 2016 Graduates
The University of Dubuque held a December Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 15, in Heritage Center's John and Alice Butler Hall on campus. Degrees were conferred upon 127 undergraduate and 48 gr...
Be nice to bike trails and they"™ll be nice to you: Avoid riding in muddy conditions
By Ashley Hesson, VORC
No doubt about it, this has been a weird winter. But then again, we did have record floods in September last fall. And then 50 degrees in February? Surely not! Except that da...
Rural Keystone fire claims two lives; one escapes through window
Firefighters remain at a rural Keystone residence today, trying to determine the cause of a fire that claimed the lives of two adult men and forced a woman in the house to escape the smoke and flames ... VS students raise $1,500 for Gualtier documentary
VSHS Student Senate members presented producer Brent Wilkins a check for $1,500 to help complete the documentary on the life of John Gualtier.
The Vinton-Shellsburg High School Student Senate led ...