The Record Newspaper

11/28/2025

Don't let the coming snowstorm spoil your plans - The Christmas Farm is open early!

11/26/2025

Happy Thanksgiving, from The Record! We're grateful for every one of you.

11/19/2025

Another big week, filled with helicopters over Diamond Lake as Poweshiek County Conservation combats honeysuckle and makes plans for lake restoration. It's a community center and Legion building filled with thanks for our veterans. It's a sky filled with color. It's a Bingo card filled with winning numbers at the inaugural Montezuma Community Development Kids Bingo. It's a toolbox at SRC Customs filled with potential. It's a lap filled with a Quilt of Valor. It's an olympic-sized story filled with possibility.

And that's just the front and back page of The Record. It's filled with even more good news and great stories from our communities in between! Happy reading!

11/17/2025

Thank you, Montezuma Community Development, for hosting another fun event at the Memorial Hall. You inspired our poll question for the week, where we asked readers to vote for their favorite MCD event. If you haven't yet voted, do it now! montezumarecord.com/post/record-poll-of-the-week

11/14/2025

On the ground with Poweshiek County Conservation for some aerial application for the park's invasive honeysuckle. Read all about it in next week's Record!

11/13/2025

As Montezuma Community Development gears up for its Kids BINGO on Sunday, we're interested to know which MCD event held at the Memorial Hall has been your favorite? Weigh in now on our Record Poll of the Week! https://www.montezumarecord.com/post/record-poll-of-the-week

11/13/2025

11/12/2025

In this issue of The Record, we cover a lot. A lot, a lot.
We readalot: Rural Revival founder Danna Larson's book release ingites a fire in every small-town dreamer!
We votealot: We break down results from the City/School Election last Tuesday.
We celebratalot: Even in the rain and cold, we enjoyed Sunset Hills Bison Ranch & Lodging's Bison Day! And we were there with Pink Truffle Bake Shop for its one-year anniversary.
We schedulealot: Check out our master winter sports scehdule for BOTH Montezuma Community School District and BGM Jr.-Sr. High School.
We laughalot: BGM Elementary approves of BGM's high school play "Freaky Tiki"
We learnalot: Poweshiek County Historical and Genealogical Society member Larry Reams paints a picture of Ewart in its heyday.
We rodeoalot: The rodeo roping world descends on Widmer's Rock 'N Roll Arena's first-ever calf-roping competition.
And, of course, we SPAMalot: Montezuma Speech and Musicals hit the holy grail of comedic performances in its opening weekend.

But it's a lot of fun, enjoy your read!

11/10/2025

We happen to think our water source is pretty important, don't you reckon? Join us at the Diamond Lake Restoration Open House on Wednesday!

Diamond Lake Restoration Open House!

Wednsday November 12, 6PM-8PM at the Foster Center on the south end of Diamond Lake.
4896 Stagecoach Road, Montezuma

The DNR Lake Restoration Team, Shive Hattery Engineer Team, and Poweshiek County Conservation Board welcome all members of the public to a 35% engineering presentation for the Diamond Lake Restoration beginning next year!

No RSVP required

11/06/2025

This week's Record poll is all about bragging rights. As we honor ALL of our veterans, we're asking which branch of the military is your personal favorite?
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force

I guess we'll see your true colors!

Vote now in our Record Poll of the Week by scanning the QR code on Page 3 of this week's Record or by going to: montezumarecord.com/post/record-poll-of-the-week

11/05/2025

Just when you think something can't get more beautiful, tomorrow happens! This is Publishers' Choice for best tree of the season, and not just because we live next to it. Know of a better one? Prove it with a picture in the comments below.

11/05/2025

If there's a theme in this week's Record, it's honor.
Defined, honor can mean profound respect, and we see that in Road Trip Coffee Co.'s donation to the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office 's K-9 unit, or in how well-run Montezuma Community Development's Fall Fest was! It's honoring history, as MHS '88 Alum Chris Raynor does. And even though we're not big spooksters, we have to give credit where credit is due in applauding the Higginbothams on their backyard Halloweentown!
Honor also means showing high esteem. How much higher can Montezuma FFA go, as they've added two more National Championships to their coffers? Poweshiek County officials were honored to host Eddie Andrews for Iowa at the courthouse. And Community School District and BGM Jr.-Sr. High School left it all on the field in their playoff games.
Lastly, honor is recognizing the intrinsic value of something - it's weight, or glory - and this is where the paper gets heavy. We prepare to honor our veterans with appreciation dinners and assemblies. We honor Rodney Morse on his promotion to Senior Master Sergeant. And we honor the memory of veterans no longer with us.
At the end of the day, it's our absolute honor to deliver this paper, to tell these stories, and share from our hearts. And we're honored for you to read it.