Ya did it now, you broke the internet, well, the website anyway....

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 27, 2019 9:46 am

We haven't had this problem for a long time, so it was difficult to decide what was going on. All I could tell my tech guy was, "I can't get on to the website! HELP!" I told him what I could see on my end, he did what he could on his end and we were back.

Journal Entry: Vinton Sesquicentennial

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 26, 2019 9:45 am

Well now, you can't say that Vinton doesn't know how to throw a party!The exhaustion I feel tonight, er, this morning lays at the feet of one Ms. Melissa Schwan.

Out of Bounds

JEFF HOLMES
August 26, 2019 9:09 am

Being the political animal that I am, I am naturally following all of the activity as the Democrats position themselves for the Iowa Caucuses early next year.

Sheryl, the shoes are in your she-shed, maybe

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 19, 2019 10:34 am

I admit it, I HATE shopping. Hate it, hate it, hate it! I don't know why, it was just never my thing...maybe because for the mom of 6 you can't afford for it to be your thing unless it's at the grocery store.

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
August 14, 2019 6:35 am

There are things that I absolutely love about this job, that wouldn't be the part where I have to figure out technology, but the part where I get to meet some of the most awesome people in our corner of the world.

Letter to the Editor: A Person of Color

VINTON TODAY
August 2, 2019 9:37 am

Editor: The so-called “squad” (Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley)  say they are people of “color”.  Well, I’m a person of color as well; particularly when I was out in the July sun all day cultivating corn – yep I was tan.

No, no don't do it Charity!

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 16, 2019 7:51 am

To those of you that know me well, know that I tend to think in musical terms, not so much quarter note, and treble clefs, but in actual songs. They say that when a song gets stuck in your head you have an earworm.

Big Bang Therapy

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 12, 2019 1:44 pm

How do you spell therapy? You COULD pay someone big bucks for them to say, "uh huh, yes, I understand why you feel that way...what I hear you saying is.

When life hands you a lemon orchard

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 3, 2019 9:48 am

Sometimes life doesn't go quite as you expected, sometimes you win the lottery and you can't imagine it being any better. But there are times it doesn't.

The Problem with Multitasking

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 2, 2019 9:11 am

As a mom, you learn quickly that you can't simply do one thing at a time. You learn that you have two hands for the sole purpose of juggling. When I first became a mom, I had it together.