Mary Wells Sutter

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...

The Final Word – Deja Vu All Over Again

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...

Five Points – Library Project Over Halfway Mark

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...

The Final World – Conference Efforts Make Sense

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...

Hometown Boy – Governor’s Beef Summit Talks Plan To Grow Dollars

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...

Bulldog Bark – Make Attendance A Priority

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...