Mary Wells Sutter, a 91-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 at Pearl’s II Eden for Elders at Princeton. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, 2016, at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Lineville, IA, with Pastor...
By Diane Lowrey R-T Editor Where were you on March 12, 1980? I know where I was. I was sitting (at midnight, no less) in the upstairs office of what was then the Pickett & Raynes law office watching the Trenton City Council vote to abolish the Board of Public...
by Wendell Lenhart R-T Publishers The Grundy County Genealogy Society, in conjunction with the Grundy County-Jewett Norris Library, is continuing its digitalization project of old newspaper microfilms. Local newspapers on microfilm at the library date from 1884 and...
by Diane Lowrey R-T Editor Trenton’s efforts to affiliate itself with an athletic conference remain up in the air, although a decision as to where the school could land could come as early as February. For the past several years, Trenton has been working to get itself...
by Duane Dailey, Professor Emeritus University of Missouri Extension Missouri is a beef-cow state. The Governor’s Beef Summit, Jan. 5, drew attention to that cow advantage. Gov. Jay Nixon opened a far-and-wide discussion with a challenge to bring more dollars back to...
by Becky Albrecht Trenton R-9 Superintendent As we begin the new year and second semester, I hope everyone with a student in Trenton R-9 will commit to a shared resolution of making school attendance a top priority for 2015. While the average daily attendance rates at...