To the Editor: Thanks for how you loved my brother, John Scriven

MARY AAMOLD
January 31, 2013 5:18 pm

Dear Children and Dear Friends, No words can express the deep gratitude I feel toward each and every one of you. Your outpouring of love and support for my brother John has filled my heart with such joy and love I can barely write these words.

“Out on a Limb”

DUANE RANDALL, VINTON PARKS & RECREATION
January 31, 2013 12:58 pm

With the Parks and Recreation Department   That old saying goes “If you don’t like the weather in Iowa, just wait fifteen minutes and it will change”.

Remembering John: The future history of a first Important T-Shirt

VINTON TODAY
January 31, 2013 11:35 am

Any adult who has ever had a T-shirt to commemorate a special event, team, or season, knows what it’s like, years later, to find that T-shirt in a box of old clothes – perhaps stained or worn out a bit, possibly a size or two smaller than the clothes currently in use.

To the Editor: Why outcome-based education is not working

JEFF TILSON
January 25, 2013 11:24 pm

To the editor: I've received what I can only characterize as an overwhelming amount of support and feedback since the initial publication of my Letter to the Editor late Wednesday.

To The Editor: 'Blanket of Blame' covers more than just teachers

VINTON TODAY
January 25, 2013 12:11 pm

By Daryn J. Hamilton   To the Editor: I would like an opportunity to respond to the Opinion: VS top 25 ranking is nothing to be happy about Mr.

To the Editor: VS top 25 ranking is nothing to be happy about

JEFF TILSON
January 23, 2013 6:16 pm

Vinton-Shellsburg Schools ranked #25 in the State To the Editor: Just reading the headline on this letter, one would think that we've achieved a distinction worthy of public attention.

Letter to the Editor: Better security technology is the answer

JOHN STIEGELMEYER
January 20, 2013 5:01 pm

Recently on one of Neil Cavuto's shows a security executive explained how the "man trap" works. It would not matter whether a staffer were in the school or not.

Pastor's Blog - JOY INTO OUR LONGEST NIGHT

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
January 11, 2013 11:55 am

  Friday, Decemter 21, was the first day of winter, the longest night of the year.  On that day, the sun rose at 7:38 am and set at 4:48 pm.

The unseen sign of growing old

VINTON TODAY
January 8, 2013 4:51 pm

  Signs of aging, for me, are nothing new. Most of them however, I have been able to see clearly. Like the day the radar gun said my 12-year-old could throw a baseball way faster than I could.

How remembering 2012 should (but probably won't) inspire changes

VINTON TODAY
January 2, 2013 11:59 am

The President was named the Time Magazine "Man of the Year" after defeating a stiff, boring, flip-flopping rich dude from Massachusetts.  The president -- whose party had lost big in the mid-term elections two years earlier -- ran his campaign by bragging about making America more secure by eliminating one of America's biggest enemies.