Belinda Diane Jeralds
Belinda Diane Schuster was born August 19, 1960, to Keleta Pearl Barber and William Dean Schuster. Belinda was born the second of four children. In 1973, Keleta and Bill Dunkeson became friends, and later married, in 1978. Bill was the man who showed Belinda and her siblings what a father is. Belinda and Dunk had…
Read MoreCharles E. Bryan
Charles E. Bryan passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at Calvin Community. Charles Edwin Bryan was born in Redding, Iowa on February 21, 1932, to Roy and Ruth Bryan. He was the third of six boys. He was known as Ed to his family and friends as he grew…
Read MoreShaha off to state meet as District Champion
Mount Ayr’s Brock Shaha will end his season at Wells Fargo Arena this week at the 2025 traditional state tournament. This comes after Shaha won the 120-pound weight class at the Class 1A District meet at Riverside High School in Oakland. Shaha improved to 49-2 with two wins at the weight class to advance to…
Read MoreBig first half helps Raiders advance
The Mount Ayr boy’s basketball team advanced along the tournament trail Monday night, beating rival Lenox 64-50 at home in the quarterfinal round of the Class 1A district 7 tournament. The Raiders improved to 19-3 and sit on the cusp of a 20-win season for just the fifth time since at least 2007 and first…
Read MoreSnapshots of History
By Mike Avitt In my research, I often come across historical information and artifacts from areas outside Ringgold County. I have made contact with several historians in neighboring counties and I share items of interest with those neighboring museums or societies. Sometimes, I am the recipient. That is the case with this week’s photo. It…
Read MoreTrump appeases Putin
To the editor: In 1905, Philosopher George Santayana said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Appeasement in the 1930’s, a brief history lesson in 1938, after seizing the Rhineland in 1936 and gobbling up Austria in 1938, Adolph Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia give him the Sudetenland, a western border region inhabited…
Read MoreDOGE won’t save money
To the editor: Donald Trump and the administer of the Department of Government Efficiency have touted the money which will remain in the U. S. Treasury after the elimination of at least one Department and several thousand employees in many other departments are removed from the federal payroll, each action taking place without consideration of…
Read MoreLooking Back
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 25, 1925.) After being appealed to by car owners for food, clothing, and fuel to last them during the winter, the board of supervisors of Fayette county drafted and published the following resolution, “If such persons are too poor to buy food or clothing, but…
Read MorePrivate schools, ESAs impacting area school districts
[Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a four-part series examining student enrollments in area school districts. Last week’s article presented enrollment trends. This week focuses on the impact of private schools on public school enrollments, especially since the advent of Education Savings Accounts, also known as private school vouchers.] Iowa instituted its Education…
Read MoreSOMEONE BELIEVES IN YOU
Diagonal students receive unexpected gift This summer promises to be an exciting time for a small group of Diagonal students. For 10 days in July, DHS freshmen Jaylynn Doolittle and Weston Drake and eighth-graders Avery Grace and Shae O’Kelley, along with their chaperons Lacy Doolittle and Crystal Drake, will embark on an educational tour of…
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