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Rookie robotics success: Union's F.U.N team earns trip to World Championships
Editor's Note: This is the first of two stories about the Union F.U.N. First Robotics Competition challenge team, which it its rookie season, earned the chance to compete in the World Championship eve... Candidates Needed for Benton County Fair Queen
By Angie Becker
The Benton County Fair is looking for young women who are interested in serving as a representative of the fair by becoming the Benton County Fair Queen. As a representative for the...
Cybersecurity using Mobile Apps
ByKimberly Frush
Click to viewSANS_OUCH_Newsletter_March 2017... Area residents encouraged to join IBSSS Expo
The public is encouraged to attend the Community Idea & Input Expo for Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School facilities and property on Wednesday, April 5 from 6pm to 9pm at the Vinton Shellsburg H... Mayor Watson Recognizes Impact of National Service
Mayor Watson handing his National Service Proclamation to members of AmeriCorps NCCC
By Angela Sarrels
On April 4, Mayor John Watson joins more than 2,000 county officials and mayors across the cou... VFW Essay Contest: Shellsburg student Makaya Gardemann earns 5th at State
Makayla Gardemann won 1st at local and District levels with her essay and was 5th in all of Iowa among 3rd graders.
VFW member Dale Henry congrats 4th grade VS winner Addy Chvala, who also was 2n... Vikings 3rd at Early Bird track meet
Will Edwards was part of the Viking varsity shuttle hurdle team that finished 3rd on Friday.
The Vinton-Shellsburg boys track team finished third in the Viking Early Bird Track meet on Friday afte... Belle Plaine's Herring Hotel: Historical treasure and an 'endangered eyesore'
This story could easily begin two ways.
1. At one of Belle Plaine's busiest intersections sits a historic building where many famous Americans, even Mark Twain and Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and R... Thank you to all who participated in the Third Annual Benton County Health & Wellness Fair
KCRG-TV9 First Alert Storm Team meteorologist, Chris Havely, demonstrates one of the 50 free weather radios donated by the Vinton Fareway at Saturday's Benton Co. Community Health and Wellness F... Spring concert season begins at Tilford
The Tilford Elementary spring concerts have begun. The second graders performed on Tuesday night in the school auditorium, using a variety of instruments -- even a horn from an antique automobile that...