Knight signs with DMACC
Ringgold Foundation 2025 grant application available
The Ringgold Foundation is announcing the start of their 2025 grant cycle, and will begin accepting grant applications Tuesday, April 15. This yearly application process runs April 15 – May 15, 2025. Funded grants will be awarded at the Ringgold County Fair in July. Last year, grants were awarded to several non-profit organizations including: Ringgold…
Read MoreThanks for library support
To the editor: If any community member has not been to the Mount Ayr Public Library in a while, you need to stop in. Thanks to the Ringgold Foundation, which is a Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines affiliate, our library has many new updates. Thanks to a 2024 Ringgold Foundation grant, we have two…
Read MoreTo much Trump golfing
To the editor: After declaring a “national emergency” that allowed him to raise tariffs across the board by at least 10% on his so-called “Liberation Day,” April 2, Trump responded by flying off to Florida to attend the Saudi backed Doral golf tournament at his Doral golf club. In the wake of a plunging US…
Read MoreLooking Back
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, April 8, 1925.) Miss Florence Ohm was the victim of a very serious accident Tuesday evening when a number of young folk gathered to shivaree Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Minnick, who were trying to evade the crowd in his car. They were all in the road.…
Read More‘Breakfast with the Master’ series begins Monday
The Ringgold County Ministerial Association will again sponsor its 41st annual “Breakfast with the Master” series of Holy Week observances April 14-18 at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. This year’s series is entitled “The Nails.” Each morning different area churches will prepare and serve breakfast from 6:30 to 7 a.m., provide music and…
Read MoreNew pool readies for opening
At the last pool progress meeting, Tuesday, March 25, the contract team working on the new Mount Ayr aquatic center shared they plan to wrap the project up by May 6. Prior to the end of March, the pool deck was completed and pool walls had been sand blasted, and grout rubbed to prepare for…
Read MoreSnapshots of History
By Mike Avitt This week’s picture is a scan of an old 1932 Standard Oil road map and focuses on Ringgold County. The map indicates the locations of Standard Oil service stations with a blue, circled “S” and I count eight in Ringgold County. I got asked about one of these stations so this week…
Read MoreHome school coop expanding into second year
A group of local families banded together last fall, creating a dynamic home school experience for their kids. Taking a slightly different approach to traditional home schooling, kids in kindergarten through 6th grade have been meeting together two days a week at Living Hope Church in Leon as part of Lighthouse Christian Academy. While the…
Read MoreKidnapping used to settle family feud
[Editor’s note: In recognition of Mount Ayr’s sesquicentennial observance in September, the Record-News will run an occasional feature story recounting the early days of the city and county. Items are told in the vernacular of the day in which they were written, but some have been edited with discretion.] From the October 14, 1925 edition…
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