Raider track members compete at All-Star Meet
This past weekend three Raider track and field standouts represented Mount Ayr in the 2019 North vs South Senior All-Star Meet hosted at Iowa City West High School. The North and South teams were selected with Highway 30 as the dividing line. Hunter Haveman, Connor Eaton and Chase Smith were invited to compete with some…
Read MoreWet weather dampens summer sports season
The Mount Ayr baseball and softball teams are one of the only teams left that have yet to play. Mother Nature has decided to rain on every game day the Raiders and Raiderettes have had. However, on Sunday, Raiderette coaches Bret and Brandi Ruggles prepared them for a Murray Mustang team that they would hopefully…
Read MoreSnapshots of History
by Mike Avitt This photo is in rough shape but it is still very clear. A picture very similar to this appears in the February 26, 1931 Diagonal Reporter newspaper. The players are in the same position in the newspaper photo so I have their names. The front row is: Ben Camden, John Varner, and…
Read MoreLooking Back June 6
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 18, 1919.) Counterfeiting scheme unearthed. The name of Chester Mallory is mentioned as one of the thirteen men charged with complicity in what federal secret service men say may prove one of the most daring counterfeiting schemes of recent years. The operatives who have…
Read MoreNew water ordinance moves forward
The Mount Ayr city council had a relatively light agenda Monday evening, the main order of business being approving the first reading of Ordinance No. 39, which amends certain provisions of the water service system. Some of the changes to the code would include: • Anyone found violating the code shall, upon conviction, be subject…
Read More10 county residents among those on honor flight
Among the 240 veterans on the May 21 Honor Flight to Washington D.C. were 10 Ringgold County residents. Hy-Vee Corporation sponsors the event which made it possible for Bill Stull, Jim Brand, Leonard Swank, Lee Brand, Dick Snethen, Gene Dillenberg, Kenny Schaefer, Gail Maps and Patrick Rouse to attend.
Read More[The following article originally appeared in the ‘Homegrown Iowa” online newsletter from Iowa Select Farms.] by Maureen Hanson When the days get longer in the spring and shorter in the fall, the crew at Southern Waste Handling Corporation (SWH), knows it will be all hands on deck for “pumping season.” SWH contracts with Iowa Select…
Read MoreNew county engineer hired
The Ringgold County Board of Supervisors have hired Jared Johnson as the new county engineer. Johnson will start June 10 after working for Blattner Energy, a satellite wind farm company in Orient. Johnson is familiar with the area, having worked for Calhoun Burns where he inspected many of the bridges and culverts in Ringgold County…
Read MoreMaking sense of the urban/rural divide
[This is the second in a series of articles examining the challenges facing rural Iowa communities. The series is a product of research conducted by the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news service located in Iowa City.] By Randy Pauson and Zoe Seiler The rural-urban divide in state economic…
Read MoreRICHARD THEODORE HAWLEY
Richard Theodore (Ted) Hawley was born the youngest of four siblings on November 28, 1935 in Denison, Iowa to Robert Theodore and Alice (Brockelsby) Hawley and died on May 22, 2019 at the family farm north of Vail. At the time of his death he had attained the age of 83 years, six months and…
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