Opinion
Remembering Paige Hicks with honor
Paige Hicks of the St.Louis area spent only an hour or two of her 21 years in Benton County.
While here, she saw our area from the same perspective from which she saw approximately half of... Oh Deer, I thought they came here all by themselves!
A few years ago I was talking to a friend of mine about how I absolutely hated deer. Love to eat them, but not the part about them that includes them running on the roads.
Then she told m...
Childen's book explains why men NEVER ask for directions
“Why are we going this way?”
“Where are we going?”
“Why can’t we just go the way we always go?”
I heard these questions last ...
A reluctant record
We've measure our success at Vinton Today, in part, by the number of page views we record in a day.
Our average weekly page views have been gradually increasing, to more than&nbs...
Feedback on The Iowa Braille Sight Saving School
The Murder (Failure? Death? Demise? Decline? Deterioration? Destruction?) of Iowa Braille: From Acclaim to Ruin in Less than Five Decades
How did this once great institution for the blind bec...
Reader Thanks Community
Dear Editor,
What a great Place to Live! I want to say a big "Thank You" to all the organizers and volunteers of Party in the Park. It was a great weekend. It's so nice to live in...
Raspberries after the rain
One of the surprises I have discovered living in the rural areas of northern Benton County are the wild raspberries that grow each June.
I do not have the same green thumb my grandfather...
The lessons from 'The House That Built Me'
You won't find many people more critical of virtually all of modern American entertainment than me.
I consider most of our movies, TV shows and music to be lame, unoriginal and simply dull...
How a baby girl helps teach the hidden lessons of grandparenthood
There are few things in life, I have learned, as great as grandparenthood.
Hardly a day goes by without offering me another opportunity to experience the inspiring j...
New news is still news, even though if some in the old news world don't know it
For some people, the idea of a newspaper that exists only on-line is a surprisingly new, perhaps even radical, idea.
But for others, the response seems to have been, “Well, it...