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Gift of Grain Provides Powerful Way for Farmers to Give Back to Community
Farmers put in countless hours planting and caring for crops, however they may not realize that what they plant could reap benefits for the community after harvest time. While most people think of mak...
2020 Homecoming Week activities for Vinton-Shellsburg High School
Click to view photos of the 2020 Homecoming Week activities for the Vinton-Shellsburg High School. The remaining activities for this week are listed below.The students at VSHS are very excited fo... Car vs. Deer Accident results in injured driver
On Friday night, a driver traveling eastbound in the 2500 block of 61stSt. Lane, Vinton, swerved to miss a deer that ran into the roadway. The driver crashed into the northeast ditch at the... Extension holds Progressive Ag Safety Day
Click to view photosSaturday found nearly 50 children in attendance at the annual Progressive Ag Safety Day held at the fairgrounds.Events kicked off at 9:00 a.m. with the children at various activity... Vinton motorcyclist injured in an accident Friday evening
Larry Eckhart of Vinton was injured in a motorcycle versus truck accident on Friday night. The accident occurred around 5:00 p.m. near Walker.A truck driven by a juvenile backed into the motorcycle's ...
Q and U will forever spend their days Quarantined together
The annual Q and U Wedding was held Friday at Tilford Elementary. The celebration of the joining of Q & U is always met with excitement from the first graders. This year the two were married in a ... Model A's roll into Vinton on Thursday
It's not every day that you see a Model A, let alone 14 of them. Some cars traveled from as far away as Muscatine and Cedar Falls and as near as Cedar Rapids and Shellsburg. The cars were part of the ... DERECHO CLEAN UP ASSISTANCE STILL AVAILABLE
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OCTOBER 5, 2020Help is still available for individuals and communities impacted
by the Derecho in counties that were federally declared for the
individual assist... Benton County Residents find assistance at Informational meeting
Tiesday afternoon found area residents finding area organizations willing to lend a hand and provide resources that might help following storm damage. Following the derecho clean up from the dam... 4th COVID Case in Vinton-Shellsburg Community School District
Information released from Vinton-Shellsburg's Superintendent Kyle Koeppen notified the community of a fourth case of COVID. So far all cases contracted by students have not come from contact with othe...