Disability rights group receives grant
By Olivia West MOUNT AYR, Iowa — Disability Rights Iowa has announced they received their second $25,000 Capacity Building Grant from the Principal Foundation in just two years. DRI is part of a national group of agencies created to address repeated abuse and neglect of people with disabilities. As a non-profit agency, they are funded…
Read MoreLocal Lions to get new Iowa Kidsight camera
By Jeff Snyder MOUNT AYR, Iowa — A vision screening can identify issues when a child cannot recognize or describe a problem. Iowa KidSight, a vision-screening program of the Lions Clubs of Iowa and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Stead Family Children’s Hospital, offers free vision screenings for children 6 months old through…
Read MoreSummer readers wowed by nature and science
By Jeff Snyder MOUNT AYR, Iowa — Youth participating in the Mount Ayr Library’s Summer Reading program were treated to a pair of presentations in science and nature that wowed the participants last Wednesday. The first presentation was from the Science Center of Iowa at the Ringgold Outdoor Alliance building in Mount Ayr. The title…
Read MoreCity to review storm water solutions
By Jeff Snyder MOUNT AYR, Iowa — Two issues were the primary focus during the Mount Ayr City Council meeting Monday night at City Hall. First was the waste water systems improvements for which bids have been received and notated. The second area of focus was the issuance of a Capital Fund Grant from HUD…
Read MoreRaiders fall to top ranked Blue Devils, 8-3
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MOUNT AYR, Iowa — The first meeting with the top ranked Martensdale-St. Mary’s Blue Devils this season went to the visiting team in an 8-3 loss last week for the Raiders. The Blue Devils outscored Mount Ayr 7-0 from the second to the fifth innings to build a lead that was too…
Read MoreRaiders rebound from first loss
By RYAN STONEBRAKER CORYDON, Iowa — The first loss of a season stings, but it is what you do with it that tells how a team is built. After falling to top-ranked Class 1A Martensdale-St. Marys earlier in the week, the Raider baseball team got back on the winning ways with a big 10-5 road…
Read MoreUpset City!
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MOUNT AYR, Iowa — It was a strange but good week for the Mount Ayr softball team as they had two games played against state ranked teams, and two games wiped out due to weather. Mount Ayr was to play Murray on Monday, June 8 and play SW Valley on June 11…
Read MoreObituary – Gary Clifford Grose
Gary Clifford Grose was born September 17, 1942, to Bert Clifford Grose and Mary Tennessee Glick Grose on their farm north of Tingley, IA. Gary passed away at home June 5, 2026. Gary fondly talked about being born north of Tingley, IA, moving to what is now known as the Hoover Angus Farm around the age of 6, and later driving the tractor with the…
Read MoreObituary – Alan Kurt Force
Alan Kurt Force was born in Mount Ayr, Iowa on March 3, 1957, to Clifford and Cleta Force. He passed on at age 69 on June 8, 2026, in Mount Ayr. Alan was preceded in death by his parents, Clifford and Cleta; his sister Sharon Hembry Kennedy and her husband’s Larry Hembry and Roy Kennedy;…
Read MoreLOOKING BACK in the Early Files by Lora Stull
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 9, 1926.) At the special election held on the day of the primary election, Monday, the proposition of issuing bonds in the sum of $150,000 for the purpose of building and equiping a court house for Ringgold C ounty carried by a majority of 592…
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