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Meet the Candidate: Bud Maynard

Editor's Note: As the City Election approaches, we invited all candidates for Mayor and City Council to share information about them and their views with our readers, in their own words. This is the ...

Meet the Candidate: Rich Hainstock

Editor's Note: As the City Election approaches, we invited all candidates for Mayor and City Council to share information about them and their views with our readers, in their own words. This is the ...

Meet the Candidate: Dixie Meyer

Editor's Note: First Ward council candidate Dixie Meyer was unable to attend the candidate forum due to a work commitment, so we invited her to share information about herself and her thougths on city...

Meet the Candidate: Dakota Rundlett

Editor's Note: We invited the two men who announced write-in campaigns for the 3rd Ward Vinton City Council seat to share information about themselves and their thoughts on city issue...

VGH Imaging Department observes National Radiologic Technology Week

In 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen invented the x-ray. He continued experiments by placing several different objects between a tube and a screen. At one point, he held a lead pipe up to the ray and saw ...

Hotel/Motel Tax Q&A

Dear Vinton Residents, The City of Vinton has placed a 7% Hotel/Motel Tax question on the upcoming election ballot that will be decided on November 7, 2017. The proposed 7% Hotel/Motel Tax is a ...

"Fall Back" by Checking Home Carbon Monoxide Detectors

As Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend (November 5, 2017), Melissa Smith, RN, BSN,Director of Virginia Gay Home Health/Benton County Public Health shares this message from the Iowa Department of Pu...

Proposed Hotel/Motel tax Explained

Dear Vinton Residents, The City of Vinton has placed a 7% Hotel/Motel Tax question on the upcoming election ballot that will be decided on November 7, 2017. The proposed 7% Hotel/Motel Tax is a ...

Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students honored with Fred Foreman scholarship

A group of sixty student leaders in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were honored for receiving the Fred Foreman Scholarship for Growth in Leadership Participation. The Foreman Scholarship...

Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Awards Annual Scholarships 

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University has awarded more than 2,250 scholarships to students for the 2017-18 academic year. The college and its departments award more ...