While researching to find out what EXACTLY was exempt under the tax holiday I was both amused and irritated. You can buy a tuxedo and not pay tax on it, you may where it once or twice  around town here, but you CAN'T buy sports shoes for your kids if they have cleats or spikes, something that will get worn until they wear out.

To the Vinton-Shellsburg School Community,  Welcome to the 2010-2011 school year! Many staff members have been working this summer to be prepared for our students in August.

Dear Editor, We are being told that the Bush Tax Cuts should be allowed to "drop dead", with the disclaimer that the Middle Class would be exempt.

I write this tonight from a tiny hotel room in Junction City, Kansas. Angie, Sage and I have been planning the trip for a year and a half, and hit the road this morning (Saturday) to take the long way to Denver, by way of our former home state of Kansas.

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 the states in the U.

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.

  “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 weekend from my kids.

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 15,000 per week.

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 become what it is today, a mere shadow of its former self? In the 1960s, The Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School was nationally recognized as the best institution of its kind, a true shining city on the hill in the area of work with blind children.

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.