Looking Back with Lora Stull
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 13, 1922.) A petition asking the annulment of a marriage which was performed at New Market, Taylor County, last week was filed in the district court of Ringgold County and the case was heard Saturday by Judge Homer Fuller, who granted the petition. The court…
Read MoreRCCB Heritage Days at Liberty Lake Saturday
Ringgold County Conservation will host Heritage Days on Saturday, September 10. “Join us for multiple activities that will take you back in time and immerse yourself in the culture of pioneer and early settler life,” said RCCB director Kate Zimmerman. Activities that are fun for all ages will be taking place from 3:00 – 5:00…
Read MoreRCCB sets shower house at Liberty Lake
Ringgold County Conservation has announced the placement of the Liberty Lake HuffCutt Shower House. This is part of the Liberty Lake Development Project – Phase 3 (Campground, Shower House and Primitive Cabins). This project has been a large-scale capital improvement project for the Ringgold County Conservation department to tackle, with the cost of the shower…
Read MoreNuisances, pool, garbage on city agenda
The Mount Ayr city council covered a wide range of topics at their regular meeting Tuesday, September 6. The meeting was postponed from its regular first Monday date due to the Labor Day holiday. Nuisances Following a 40-minute closed session with city attorney Erin Hardisty to open the meeting, the council voted to enforce the…
Read MoreAxne delivers check to Family Resource Center
Third District Congresswoman Cindy Axne was in Mount Ayr Thursday, September 1 to present a check for $725,336 to the Family Resource Center to fund the majority of its nearly $1 million renovation project. The grant was awarded through Rep. Axne’s Community Development Projects program with funding coming from the recent omnibus spending bill by…
Read MoreBILLY B. MERCER
Memorial Services for Billy B. Mercer, 92, of Creston, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at Pearson Family Funeral Service & Cremation Center in Creston. Reverend Wade Meyer will officiate. The service will be livestreamed at www.pearsonfuneralhomes.com under Billy’s obituary tab. The family will greet friends from 9 a.m. to 10…
Read MoreRaiderettes go 2-0 in first outing
Mount Ayr 2, CD 0 The Mount Ayr Raiderette volleyball squad traveled to Bedford last Thursday to begin the Fall sports season in a triangular against Central Decatur and Bedford. The first match of the night saw Bedford defeat Central Decatur, 2-0, before the Raiderettes took the court to warm-up and face the Cardinals. The…
Read MoreThe ‘Rock’ trophy back home
Mount Ayr 54, NV 0 It was a night to remember for the Raider football team as they opened the season with The Battle for the Rock once more. Last year, the Raiders fell short of keeping The Rock trophy home, losing to Nodaway Valley 20-16, but a year later the Raiders made sure the…
Read MoreSnapshot of History
BY MIKE AVITT I was asked to put on a picture slideshow at the Mount Ayr High School class of 1962 reunion to be held during Ayr Days. I don’t know how to do that so I made prints of some pictures I had from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. And this week’s photo…
Read MoreDrain the ‘Swamp’
To the editor: Any new president can hire the agency heads, which in turn hire the staff, approximately 4,000 political appointees, who rule over 432 agencies and 2.9 million employees. This group is known as the “Swamp”, the deep state, or the administrative state! In 2018 President Trump attempted to gain some control over the…
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