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Virginia Gay Hospital Home Health Agency Receives 2022 Customer Experience Award

Virginia Gay Hospital Home Health Agency is proud to announce that they are the recipient of Pinnacle Quality Insight’s 2022 Customer Experience AwardTM. Qualifying for the award in three categories...

Top 10 Homecoming King and Queen Candidates Announced

Click to watch the nominationsIt's Homecoming week for Vinton-Shellsburg! Here are the nominations for King and Queen!Queen Candidates: Kate Timmerman, Aspen Ahrenholz, Baylee Wheeler, Abby Davis, Ash...

Grab a great football book to read after the game!

Homecoming week doesn't go unnoticed at the Vinton Public Library! Stop in this week and grab a great book about football to enjoy after the games this week. You'll find just a few of the selections o...

The Class of 1960 Reunites

Class of 1960 Vinton's graduating class of 1960 held their 60th Class Reunion on  Saturday, September 17th at Pizza Ranch in downtown Vinton. The reunion brought 27 classmates together again. Because of t...

Benton County adds Century and Heritage Farms

351 Century and Heritage Farm Families Honored at Iowa State Fair. The program celebrates farms in the same family for 100 and 150 years, respectively.Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, Iow...

New Library Hours as of September 19

The Vinton Public Library will hold an open house to welcome new Library Director Kelly Henkle on September 29, from 4-6:00 p.m. at the Vinton Public Library from 4-6 p.m. Light refreshments will be s...

VINTON-SHELLSBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL RECEIVES NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL AWARD

School Board President Tom Burke presents Middle School Principal Shelly Petersen with a bouquet in congratulations. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today recognized the Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School as one of 5 schools in Iowa receiving a National Blue Ribbon Schools award for 2022. The recognition is ...

Vinton Popcorn Company offers Halloween Themed Popcorn Bags

The Vinton Popcorn Company will be selling a special Halloween themed bag of popcorn for the upcoming holiday. Each Halloween-themed bag will contain caramel popcorn, M&Ms, candy corn, and a spider r...

Help needed this Saturday at Wesley United Methodist Church Food Pantry

Wesley United Methodist Church Food Pantry will be this Sat. Sept 17th from 10-11. Please bring bags and boxes to carry your food home. Our address is 516 2nd Ave. We are the Church next to the Lib...

Old School Produce brings in the harvest

AmeriCorps and the Vinton-Shellsburg High School Freshman AG class, have lent their hands in the harvesting of the produce from Old School Produce. It is estimated that to date, the gardens have prod...