Year: 2021

The Mercer County School Board talks technology and broadband. Aledo grad Louis Powell wants to develop a pilot project between Mercer County High School and Devry University involving dual enrollment in technology classes. Powell is [FULL STORY]

Western Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos at Wednesday’s Presidential Inauguration. Bustos was just elected to her fifth term in November.

The Mercer County Health Department (MCHD) has announced two more COVID-19 related deaths, a man in his 70s and a man in his 80s, bringing the county’s total to thirty-one. There have been 1,177 total [FULL STORY]

Mercer County Health Department Administrator Carla Ewing hopeful that COVID-19 vaccine shipments increase in the coming weeks. Demand has been high for the vaccine locally with February clinics already filled up. Ewing provides an update [FULL STORY]

The Aledo City Council receives an update on the former Gun Report storefront. Louis Powell is renovating the property and the building has already been gutted says Mayor Chris Hagloch. The Aledo City Council approved [FULL STORY]

Interested in working in highway construction or any of the building trades? A new session of the Highway Construction Careers Training Program (HCCTP) at Black Hawk College begins Monday, March 1. The 13-week program aims [FULL STORY]

A Keithsburg man charged with a felony of sexual relations within families has been deemed fit to stand trial. The finding was entered Tuesday in Mercer County Circuit Court for 46 year old Kevin Hockenberry. [FULL STORY]