Month: April 2020

The City of Aledo is moving forward with clean-up days later this month. The specifics from Police Chief/City Administrator Chris Sullivan.   Again, City of Aledo clean-up days take place the week of April 27th.

Former Country Bank executive Dana Frye’s report date to prison has been extended by 90 days. He was scheduled to turn himself into the Federal Bureau of Prisons on April 13th, but U.S. District Court [FULL STORY]

A Mercer County Junior High student meeting a need during the state’s “stay at home” order. Kylie McCoy of Aledo has created an enterprise called Kylie’s Krafts. The eighth grader makes surgical masks and scrub [FULL STORY]

Western Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos announcing a timeline for the direct payments under the federal economic stimulus package. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security or CARES Act provides direct cash payments to lower-and middle-income [FULL STORY]

A Monmouth man sustains minor injuries in a drunk driving accident in Mercer County. The crash occurred Wednesday along U.S. 67 near Preemption. The driver, 21 year old Rosendo E. Ramirez-Velasquez was transported to Unity [FULL STORY]