Monday May 21 | Vinton Today
Learning to live without electricity; former farm wife recalls adjustments
Most people who remember living without electricity in their homes grew up in rural areas that did not get electricity until the creation of electrical cooperatives in the 1930s.
Diaries Open Window to Farmer's Own Life
More than 65 years after he wrote letters home while serving with the Army in Korea, LaVerne Crowley is reading them.
Coggon Farmer Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud
An Iowa hog farmer has pleaded guilty to defrauding a bank out of at least $6.9 million.
Coggon Farmer Admits to 7 Million Dollar Fraud
A Linn County hog farmer admitted to scheming his bank out of nearly $7 million over a 2 year period in federal court in Cedar Rapids on Monday.
Couple to wed in same cornfield where he proposed
Kali Rose Pillard of rural Ryan didn't really feel like going out for dinner. So what if mom suggested, more than once, that she shower.