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VFW & VFW Auxiliary 8884 Attend Tilford Elementary Essay Awards Day April 11

Our VFW Auxiliary hosts our Elementary essay contest each year at Tilford and Shellsburg Elementary Schools.  Last week we went to Shellsburg to present the students with their essay awards. ...

2022 V-S PROM DANCE ITINERARY April 30

2022 V-S PROM DANCE ITINERARY When: Saturday, April 30, 2022 Time: 8:00pm - 11:30pm (doors open 7:45pm) Where: Vinton Skate & Activity Center Who: V -S Seniors & Juniors & Invited Gues...

Eastern Iowa Honor Flight announces flight to Washington DC. Flight #42

Eastern Iowa Honor Flight announces flight to Washington DC. Flight #42 to include 89 veterans.On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, the Eastern Iowa Honor Flight will launch Flight #42. The mission of this ...

The Easter Bunny visits Shellsburg

Shellsburg children welcomed the Easter Bunny this past weekend The Easter Bunny has a lot of stops to make over the Easter season. The first appearance was at the Shellsburg City Park on Saturday. A little more than 100 children were on hand to collect the thousa...

Vinton-Shellsburg Community School District Newsletter

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Shellsburg Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Conspiracy

             Three individuals who were caught conspiring to distribute heroin during a wiretap investigation pled guilty recently in federa...

Easter Bunny Requests Windsor Manor's help with Easter Egg Preparation

The Easter Bunny looked all around Vinton to find some of the best people in town to help prepare for the annual Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt. When asked, the Easter Bunny said that the search was narrowed...

Florence Go Getters 4-H Send supplies to Ukraine

This last month the Florence Go-Getters 4-H club put together boxes of supplies to send overseas to help Ukraine. We had 2 leaders and 16 members were present to help box and tape the boxes to send.In...

Go Serve Global will display a Sukup Safe-T Home in Vinton, April 23-29

An lowa based mission organization called, "Go Serve Global" based out of Eagle Grove, Iowa has been brought to the attention of the Mission team of Blessed Hope Community Church. The organization sh...

Former LaPorte City Resident charged with Murder in the killing of infant son

A former La Porte City resident, Lucas Noble Dingman, 36, has been found guilty of second-degree murder. The jurors in San Bernadino County Court convicted him in the killing of his 11-month-old infan...