Zero Degrees

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 28, 2019 12:54 pm

I don't often get upset when people think I'm stupid. That's okay. As a matter of fact, I've gotten too good at acting like I don't know things. (there are so many directions I could go with just those two sentences.

Letter to the Editor: Roe vs. Wade

VINTON TODAY
January 24, 2019 9:40 pm

Dear Editor,"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"46 years ago, our country passed a law that legalized the killing of babies.

Off Roading down the Road

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 18, 2019 8:59 pm

I love living in the country, I really do. Except with it's icy. Or when the snow is so deep that it's drifted higher than the minivan, which happened one year.

When Life Isn't Normal

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
January 5, 2019 3:44 pm

I like life to be boring. Dull. Mundane. Occasionally a bit of excitement is alright if it's a good kind of excitement. I like there to be a routine.

Letter to the Editor Cc: Leader Pelosi-Sen. Grassley,-Sen. Ernst, Pres. Trump

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 26, 2018 7:24 pm

Dear Senator Schumer:        Cc: Leader Pelosi, Senator Grassley, Senator Earnst, President Trump You describe Pres Trump’s insistence on border security as a “temper tantrum”.

Letter to the Editor: To Representative Gutierrez of Illinois

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 23, 2018 5:19 pm

Editor: Written to REP Gutierrez of Illinois You can read to whole deal @  Representative Gutierrez: I have read your 6 minute dressing down of Sec Kirstjen Nielsen – that was most unfair.

It's NOT News, but...Technology

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 12, 2018 5:26 pm

...I have had it with technology. You know the drill, technology is great when it works, but when it doesn't, well in my case, I simply can't work.

It's not news but...

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 12, 2018 5:17 pm

A week or so ago, I ran into one of my favorite people at a funeral named Frank Kruse. Now, I hear that Frank was a school teacher, but I didn't know him then.

In Memory: Journalism's quiet, effecient Bob Lutz

VINTON TODAY
December 8, 2018 9:07 pm

In our news stories we try to be what the journalism professors call proportional – that means we try to give a story as much length, depth and importance as it deserves.

CITY OF LIGHTS: VINTON’S MOTTO FIRST APPEARED DURING 1983 HOLIDAY SEASON

VINTON TODAY
December 8, 2018 9:06 pm

While it has appeared on “Welcome to Vinton” signs on display throughout the year, the theme, “City of Lights” was originally a holiday season promotion for our town.