Month: July 2018

Those families in need in the Sherrard School District can get a little more help in the new school year. Sherrard High School and Junior High are partnering with the River Bend Foodbank to create [FULL STORY]

State charges have been dismissed against a Sherrard man shot by a Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputy in June. But 28 year old Donovan Smith is now being charged federally with two counts of unlawful transport [FULL STORY]

WRMJ News Director Jim Taylor spoke with filmmaker Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope this morning. The Depaul University accounting professor is the director of the documentary All The Queen’s Horses, which details the story of former [FULL STORY]

A lesson in the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation and the resulting Mercer County: Better Together effort. The foundation’s Kelly Thompson provided an update at a public education session held last night at the Hamlet-Presbyterian Church Hall. [FULL STORY]

Mercer County unemployment remains steady at 4.4 percent. The number is for June and is similar to the same figure recorded a year ago. Unemployment also steady compared to year over year levels in Henderson, [FULL STORY]

WRMJ News Director Jim Taylor caught up with Aledo artist/sign painter Mike Clark this afternoon. He has worked on a number of mural projects this summer–including work in Aledo, Kewanee, Galva and Streator along with [FULL STORY]

The Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation making upwards of $150,000 available for Mercer County communities aimed at enhancing public parks and recreational facilities.  The foundation’s Kelly Thompson says the grant strives for collaboration among local governments. The [FULL STORY]