Mount Ayr will be looking for a new head varsity football coach following action at Monday’s meeting of the school district’s board of directors. The board accepted the resignation of co-head coach Derek Lambert during the personnel portion of the meeting. The resignation comes on the heels of the recent announcement of the retirement of…

On Friday, March 6 at approximately 8:44 p.m., Ringgold County Dispatch received a 911 call about a man with a gun at Mount Ayr High School. About the same time, Sheriff Rob Haley had received a text reporting suspicions that a man was drinking beer in the MACHS auditorium during the performance of the school…

At its March 2 meeting, Mount Ayr city council members were presented with the feasibility study for potential recreational facilities in the city. In its opening pages, the 70-page report from David Stone and Stone Planning summarizes three outcomes that guide the study’s research and recommendations: 1. Develop a facility whose construction, operations, and maintenance…

[The following article by Black Hawk County Auditor Grant Veeder was originally written in 2006 for the Iowa County magazine, a monthly publication of the Iowa State Association of Counties. It was primarily intended as a quick primer on county budgets for new or inexperienced county supervisors and other officers. It was updated and run…

For those individuals who have been traveling: If you have recently been to an area with ongoing spread of COVID-19 or have been exposed to someone sick with COVID-19 in the last 14 days, you may face some limitations on your movement and activity. The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has requested Iowans returning…