Month: September 2018

The second and final installment of 2017 payable 2018 Mercer County real estate taxes due later this week. An update from Mercer County Treasurer Bev Lower after last night’s Mercer County Board meeting. The first [FULL STORY]

A New Boston man being sent to prison in a meth case.  46 year old Trevor Shoemaker was sentenced this morning in Mercer County Circuit Court to five-and-a-half years in the Illinois Department of Corrections [FULL STORY]

A Davenport man arrested following a Crime Stoppers tip in Mercer County earlier this summer has been sentenced to three years in prison. 28 year old Jacob R N Oberlander pleaded guilty to a Class [FULL STORY]

A new law allows Illinois high school students to take as many college credit classes as they want starting next year. The legislation was sponsored in the State Senate by local State Senator Chuck Weaver. [FULL STORY]