Month: August 2021

The new school year starts Tuesday for students in the Sherrard School District. This marks the last year for Superintendent Alan Boucher. He is retiring at the end of the school year and the search [FULL STORY]

Marching bands will get back on the field in the fall. And the Marching Eagles are getting ready for the season with marching band camp this week says Mercer County band director Rusty Ruggles. There [FULL STORY]

Western Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos announcing that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Health Clinic Vaccine Confidence (RHCVC) Program, which supports vaccine outreach in rural areas, has awarded a total of $49,529 in [FULL STORY]

An effort underway to rename Matherville Road in honor of two local soldiers killed in action during World War II. William Kouske and Freemon Sandquist were both Purple Heart recipients. Kouske died in the Battle [FULL STORY]

The Mercer County Sheriff’s Department and Mercer County School District have reached an agreement for a school resource officer at Mercer County High School. The two parties have had a relationship since 2019 when a [FULL STORY]

Mercer County’s latest COVID test positivity rate is over 8-percent. Mercer County Health Department administrator Carla Ewing provided the latest data Wednesday morning. 44.3 percent of the county is now fully vaccinated against COVID.

Smaller cities across Illinois can now apply for their share of $742 million in federal taxpayer COVID-19 relief funds that Congress approved earlier this year. Cities with more than 50,000 people have already received their [FULL STORY]