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Volunteer drivers needed for Belle Plaine Senior Dining
TheHACAP Belle Plaine Senior Dining Programis looking for consistent regular volunteers to help us deliver meals to seniors in Benton County! Our Home Delivery Drivers help our Senior Dining Program t...
Cold continues; local garbage service delayed
The bitterly cold conditions continue, causing many vehicles to not start.
Among those vehicles: Garbage trucks that serve Vinton.
Herb's Garbage Hauling has announced this morning that pick-up ...
VU Announces Week 5 winner and Grand Prize Winner
Shannon Maynard
Congratulations to Shannon Maynard, our week 5 winner in the "˜holiday lights' promotion! Shannon has won Vinton Value Dollars!
Roxanne Ervin
Also, congratulations... Benton County Community Foundation Grant Application Now Available
Grant applications can now be submitted to the Benton County Community Foundation for its 2018 grant cycle. The deadline to submit applications is 11:59 p.m. March 15, 2018. Grants are awarded to proj...
Memorialized in bronze: Sheriff Fry bust unveiled at courthouse
Nearly 80 years after he died in the line of duty, a bust in honor of Sheriff Leland Fry has been unveiled and will remain on display inside the Benton County Courthouse until being place outside on a... VSHS alum Eels tells Lions about molecular biolphysics & medical research
Rebecca Eels shared a bit about her complex work with cells at the Lions meeting.
By Kurt Karr, Vinton Lions Club
Rebecca Eells was the speaker at the Vinton Lion's club meeting last Wedne... VS FFA members Tour New Vinbana Dairy Facilities
By: Franki Evans, Co-Reporter
On November 7th a group of FFA members went to the new Vinbana Dairy facilities to learn about milk production and the processes the cows go through. First we watched ... VS FFA members attend 90th National FFA Convention
Top Row L to R: Eric Henkle, Jakob Long, Ethan Horak, 2nd to top row L to R: Colton Evans, Isaac Wiley, Grant Ries. 3rd Row from top L to R: Bree Tharp, George Haefner. 4th Row L to R: Weston Biersch... Counterfeit $100 bill presented at Vinton convenience store
Sometime before sunrise on Dec. 26, a man walked into Ehlinger's Vinton Express and tried to pay for some purchases with a counterfeit $100 bill.
However, the clerk on duty, Becci Sloan, noticed th... 
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