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JH track at Central Decatur results

Mount Ayr junior high girls and boys track teams competed in the Central Decatur Invitational at Leon April 25. girls team results 1) Mount Ayr 123 2) Wayne, Corydon 117 3) I-35, Truro 87 4) Lamoni 70 5) East Union 56 6) Cent Decatur 43 7) Murray 24 individual results 100m dash 3. EmmaLeigh Creveling…

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Rebel Relays track results announced

Mount Ayr junior high girls and boys track teams competed in the junior high Rebel Relays in Mount Ayr April 22. girls team results 1) Mount Ayr 129 2) Bedford 99 3) Lenox 98 4) Wayne 62 5) Nodaway Valley 59 6) Clarke 44 7) Southwest Valley 27 8) Central Decatur 20 9) East Union…

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Graham records ace at Corning meet

Drew Graham, a sophomore on the Mount Ayr golf team, hit a hole-in-one during a meet at Happy Hollow Country Club in Corning on April 29. Graham finished first among all golfers, carding a course-par 33. He also recorded only nine putts over the nine-hole round. Ironically, Graham’s score did not count toward the Mount…

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Three event victories for Raiderettes at home co-ed

The Mount Ayr girl’s track and field team hosted a co-ed home meet on May 8 with a 13-team scoring meet. The Raiderettes placed fourth with a team score of 72 points. Interstate-35 won the meet with a score of 136 points while Wayne was second with 106 points and Central Decatur third with a…

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Raider golfers repeat as POI champions

The Pride of Iowa Conference boy’s golf title is going to reside in Mount Ayr. Again. This comes after the Raiders won their sixth meet this season at the 2025 POI conference meet last week in Lenox. The Raiders won the POI crown by 20 strokes over runner-up Wayne, who was second with a team…

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Reynolds wins 3 events in first POI meet

The family lineage is well known, and now it is time for another Reynolds to shine. Mount Ayr freshman Emma Reynolds captured a pair of individual event titles at last week’s Pride of Iowa Conference meet at Nodaway Valley. Reynolds win helped the Raiderettes to a third-place team finish with 128 points. Reynolds ran three…

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Raiders runners-up at home meet

The Mount Ayr Raider boy’s track team placed second at their home co-ed last Thursday, May 8. The 12-team scoring meet went to the Lenox Tigers, who won the meet with a team score of 117 points. Mount Ayr was second with 98 points, and Wayne was third with 93 points. The Raiders won four…

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Raiders win POI Conference meet

The Mount Ayr boy’s track and field team had to hold off the pesky Lenox Tigers at the 2025 Pride of Iowa Conference track meet last week at Nodaway Valley. The Raiders won five events and scored 137.5 team points. Lenox was second with a team score of 136, behind five event wins of their…

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Snapshots of History

This week’s picture shows station manager Art Clayton servicing what appears to be a 1928 Chevrolet at the Diagonal Skelly in 1932. Art is wearing a white uniform and I can see three gravity-flow gasoline pumps on a beautifully landscaped driveway. The movie theater can be seen to the left. A large sign advertises Tagolene…

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LOOKING BACK in the Early Files

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, May 13, 1925.) The Maloy baseball team organized and bought each a new suit and played their first game Sunday at Bedford. The lineup is as follows: battery, Swede Bailey and Jason Worthington; first base, Limus Bailey; second base, Cecil Clarey’ short stop, “Peanut” Cowell; third…

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