The city of Mount Ayr will finally have their own website. During a short meeting Monday evening, the council approved of the hiring of Chanse Hall of Mount Ayr to build a city web site. The cost of the website will be $10,000 for design and implementation. Half of that amount will be paid upfront…

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley visited Diagonal last week to tour the facilities at Excel Engineering and to meet and answer questions from the company staff. Excel founder Doug Sobotka led the tour and explained the history of his company. Grassley took the opportunity to stop at several testing stations and interact with several technicians overseeing…

Eugene McAlexander of Beaconsfield recently completed 30 years of service as a National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Observer. Eugene began his 30 year tenure as an official weather observer in May of 1989. Eugene provides the National Weather Service with temperature and precipitation information on a daily and monthly basis for the city of Beaconsfield.…

What started as a plan between a great-grandmother and her great-granddaughter has blossomed into a family project for one Mount Ayr fifth-grade girl. Tatum Friedrich, daughter of Eric and Melissa Friedrich and granddaughter of Malcolm and Ginny Eighmy, all of Mount Ayr, began raising flowers in her backyard about five years ago. Tatum and her…

American Legion Post 172 in Mount Ayr will have a 100 year anniversary September 3 at 6 p.m. An evening is planned to honor the men and women who have made there ultimate sacrifice to serve their country. The post officially had its charter signed September 3, 1919.  John Mills was the organizer and was…