Looking Back with Lora Stull
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 6, 1922.) School opened Monday morning-The high school is filled to capacity, the enrollment to date being 246 as follows: freshman class, 79; sophomores, 74; juniors, 48; seniors, 45- the largest high school enrollment in the history of the school, with about the usual enrollment…
Read MoreLiberty Lake campground stalled for now
by Chanse Hall On Monday, August 22, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors met with the Ringgold County Conservation Board to discuss the American Relief Plan Act (ARPA) funding that has been denied by the Board of Supervisors just a few months after having been approved by the ARPA funding committee. ARPA funds were delivered…
Read MoreDiagonal Lions Labor Day this weekend
The annual Diagonal Lions Club Labor Day celebration will feature three days filled with activities Saturday, September 3 through Monday, September 5. Saturday, September 3 Sign-up for the Junior Class UTV Poker Run begins at 12 p.m. at the south end of Broadway. The race begins at 1 p.m. The route will be announced closer…
Read MoreTingley celebration draws large crowd
by Landi McFarland The town of Tingley hosted their Third Annual Homemade Ice Cream Contest on Sunday, August 28 in the Tingley Memorial Park. The event more than quadrupled the number of people that live in the small community. The Hoover Angus Ice Cream Contest had 28 entries, and first place in each class won…
Read MoreGLORIA ST. CLAIR
Gloria St. Clair, a Mother and Grandmother, passed away by natural causes on August 17, 2022 in Overland Park, KS surrounded by her family. Gloria was born in Beaconsfield, IA to Emmett and Jessie Fouser on January 17, 1932. She grew up on the family farm and graduated from Beaconsfield High School and then attended…
Read MoreJIMMIE EDWARD MEADOWS
Jimmie Edward Meadows passed away on August 10, 2022 in Indianola, IA. A visitation with family present was held from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, August 19, 2022 at Peterson Funeral Home in Indianola. Burial will take place at I.O.O.F Cemetery in Indianola. Jim was born on September 19, 1936 in Kellerton, IA…
Read MoreRaiders look to bring trophy back to Mt. Ayr
The Raiders have held on to ‘The Rock’ since its inception, that is until last year, when the Nodaway Valley Wolverines snatched the trophy honoring longtime coaches for Mount Ayr and Greenfield/Nodaway Valley Dave Still and Bob Daut. The Wolverines stunned the Raiders last season with a 20-16 loss. The Raiders hold a 13-2 All-Time…
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 MoreMurder, not choice
To the editor: I struggle with the way some folks reason things. I read an article where a human being beat up an animal and received a 25-year jail sentence for doing so, yet some would say it’s okay to let one human being reach inside another human being to tear a third human being…
Read MoreLooking Back with Lora Stull
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, August 30, 1922.) In an early day Jesse Hiatt, a Quaker from Indiana, secured from the government a tract of land near what is now Peru, in Madison County. In improving the raw prairie tract he set out an orchard, the varieties of apples desired being…
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