Mount Ayr quality of life ranks high among residents
How are some towns able to thrive even as their population shrinks in size? This is the question driving a grant-funded research project led by Kimberly Zarecor, Ph.D. Professor of Architecture, and Jennifer Drinkwater, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Iowa State University. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the two professors are…
Read MoreEDNA MARIE PARKER
Edna Marie Parker was born at home June 8, 1930 to Zenas Robert and Eunice Elva (White) Kilgore on the family farm five miles North of Diagonal on County Road P33/Pole Road and died peacefully at Ringgold County Hospital on Sunday morning, January 29, 2023. Edna was the fourth of five kids and walked to…
Read MorePARKER GIL COPPER
Parker Gil Copper, age three months, the son of Chance Gil and Shasta Jo (Masters) Copper, was born October 16, 2022, in Des Moines, IA. He went to be with Jesus in Heaven on Sunday, January 29, 2023, at Unity Point Hospital in Des Moines, IA. Parker was the joy of his parents’ and his…
Read MoreRaiderettes finish 15-6 on season
Nodaway Valley 50, Mount Ayr 44 The Mount Ayr Raiderette basketball team took to the road January 31 to face the Nodaway Valley Wolverines in their second meeting of the season. The first meeting between to two saw Nodaway Valley with the 63-47 victory, but this game in Greenfield came down to another final seconds…
Read MoreRaiders take share of POI title
Mount Ayr 64, Nodaway Valley 59 The Mount Ayr Raiders had a mission on Tuesday, January 31 when they traveled to Greenfield to face the Nodaway Valley Wolverines. A victory over the Wolverines would keep the Pride of Iowa title alive for the Raiders. In their first meeting this season, Nodaway Valley defeated Mount Ayr…
Read MoreSnapshot of History
BY MIKE AVITT Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and say, “why did that happen?”. It happens to me every night. By 1917, every incorporated town in Ringgold County had built a brick high school except Knowlton, Ellston, and Beaconsfield. In 1917 only Mount Ayr had electricity, but Diagonal soon…
Read MoreBiden is a clown
To the editor: Joe in an unchallenged press statement said, “Remember what the economy was like when I got here? Jobs were hemorrhaging, inflation was rising, we weren’t manufacturing a damn thing here, we were in a real economic difficulty.” He has got away with this so many times, I’m even starting to believe! The…
Read MoreTaking on M&M’s
To the editor: Tucker Carlson, host of Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight and noted culture warrior has taken aim at M&M candies. You might ask, can a candy have a gender personality? Well, Tucker thinks they can. “After the Brown M&M swapped her stilettos for lower block heels and the Green M&M traded in go-go…
Read MoreEnjoys business stories
To the editor: We enjoy reading about the Mount Ayr business men and women. I would like to add to the article about Mary Kathryn Gepner. In the school year of 1999 – 2000, when she taught at Abraham Lincoln School in Council Bluffs, Mary Kathryn was awarded Teacher of the Year. Jim and Donna…
Read MoreLooking Back with Lora Stull
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 14, 1923.) Two dramatic debates will be features of Better Citizenship meetings under the auspices of the Iowa Anti-Saloon League, will be observed by all churches of this vicinity Sunday February 18. A corps of Anti-Saloon League speakers will invade the city presenting plans of…
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