The Vinton fifth-grade soccer player honored for outstanding sportsmanship among players in a nine-state region responded to the news of her honor by telling her parents, "Why me? I don't do anything special when I play.
Ashley McKenna, a junior in materials engineering from Vinton, recently received the $5,000 MTI Bert Kisher Memorial Scholarship to assist in her undergraduate educational experience at Iowa State University.
Claire Andreesen (front, left) celebrates ISU's win over Iowa in 2015, one of her favorite pep band memories.
Among those cheering most loudly for an Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball victory each game is an alto sax player, a college senior from Vinton who hopes to end her band career at the NCAA tournament.
Jared Thompson, left and David Steele advanced to the Octofinal Round at the State Debate event.
The Vinton-Shellsburg 2017 Debate Team performed exceptionally well at the Iowa High School Speech Association's State Debate Tournament held on the DMACC Campus in Ankeny on January 6th and 7th.
Rachel Gordon of Shellsburg has been named to the Deans' List at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the fall semester of the 2016-17 academic year.
Well, it's about that time of the year again - that time when men who can normally talk incessantly about just about anything - no matter how insignificant - without pausing to find the right words to say, suddenly find themselves speechless.
April Hummel sorts through prayer cards as she sets up the first of several Vinton Prays boxes outside her in-law's house on 2nd Avenue Saturday morning.
The State of Iowa Judicial Branch is pleased to announce the following recipients of the Sixth Judicial District's annual awards, to be formally presented at a reception on February 20, 2017, at 1:30 p.