Month: July 2018

Mercer County residents have an opportunity later this month to learn about the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation and the resulting Mercer County: Better Together effort.  New Boston sisters Dorothy Looser-Flake and Roberta Looser left a $6-million [FULL STORY]

            Mercer County should have a new animal control facility by the end of this year. Ground was broken this morning for the approximate $200,000 project. FurEver Friends for Mercer [FULL STORY]

Construction set to begin early next month on a new weight room and wrestling room addition at Sherrard High School. Sherrard superintendent Alan Boucher says the 6,900 square foot project is being funded through proceeds [FULL STORY]

Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputies assisting the Aledo Police Department in locating an area man wanted on a Rock Island County warrant. Lucas Jacobson of Taylor Ridge fled on foot in the Aledo area yesterday, but [FULL STORY]

It’s Bath, Illinois and the 13th Annual Redneck Fishin’ Tournament early next month.  That means you fish without a pole. Organizer Betty DeFord says the event serves several purposes—it brings attention to the Asian Carp [FULL STORY]

Here’s an exhibit you don’t see that often at county fairs.  A calf birthing center.  It’s new this year at the Rock Island County Fair and it’s the idea of area dairy farmer Jim Bohnert. [FULL STORY]