Redefining bullying: Help for parents, schools
Bullying has become a matter of life and death for many kids, and while most people are familiar with bullying, it is quietly transforming into an epidemic. Millions of youth are experiencing cyberbullying online, through social media, and other “silent” messaging avenues every day, and parents are often unaware. This type of bullying includes mean…
Read MoreCounty nurse suspended by state board
By Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch The Iowa Board of Nursing has issued an emergency order suspending the license of a nurse who allegedly tested positive for drugs while working at an Iowa hospital in 2023. The board has charged Audrie Hubbard of Ringgold County, a registered nurse, with practicing nursing while under the influence…
Read MoreDiagonal hires K-12 principal
At the February 19 meeting of the Diagonal Community School board of directors, district superintendent Larry McNutt presented his recommendation to hire Roger Johnson as the new K-12 principal the 2025-26 school year. Johnson replaces former principal Gary Clark who resigned mid-year. Johnson currently serves as K-12 principal at North Nodaway Middle/High School in Hopkins,…
Read MoreSun Valley Views & News Magazine
The “Views & News” magazine allows you to get your advertising message to all Sun Valley Lake property owners in Ellston, IA. We publish three issues of this attractive full-color glossy magazine each year…Spring, Summer and Fall. Spring Views & News – 2025 Summer Views & News – 2025 The deadline to send art/files for…
Read MoreBelinda 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…
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