Farmers in Ringgold County will be paid $56 per acre by a USDA program to soften the blow from the ongoing trade war with China. The payments will be provided to row crop and specialty crop growers and livestock producers. The program is based on a single county payment rate multiplied by a farm’s total…

The appearance of plastic locater flags, torn up streets and dug up residential lawns are familiar sights throughout the city of Mount Ayr this summer, but work on the massive water distribution system improvement project continues to progress mostly on schedule, according to city superintendent Brent Wise. Currently three different contractors are working on four…

“I have been looking for you for 30 years.” Imagine hearing those words from a father you had never known. That was the experience of Connie Brown of Mount Ayr who last year finally found her birth parents after a lifetime of searching. Connie’s saga begins in the mid-60s with a romance between two students…

In terms of lives lost, Operation Tiger was the costliest training exercise in all of World War II. Of those 749 who perished shortly after midnight on April 28, 1944, one left behind a wife and 13-month-old daughter here in Ringgold County. Army Private Ivan J. Brown of Redding died in the icy waters off…

As the calendar turns to August, thoughts of students and parents alike turn to the upcoming beginning of the 2019-2020 school year. Registration for Mount Ayr schools will be held Monday, August 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday, August 6 from 2-7 p.m. at the high school. Registration for Diagonal students is…