Month: December 2022

As the year ends, Mercer County Health Department Administer Carla Ewing is retiring. Her last day on the job was Thursday. Health Department employee Angie Litterst is taking over as the new administrator.

A Kankakee County judge is declaring that a key provision of Illinois’ sweeping criminal justice reform law violates the state constitution. Circuit Judge Thomas Cunnington ruled Wednesday that the portion of the state’s controversial SAFE-T [FULL STORY]

Ameren Illinois encouraging customers to take advantage of the Google Nest program. Nick Lovier is with the utility… Again the website is amerenillinoissavings.com/cybermonday.

Thanks to funding from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation, Mercer County and Sherrard schools are seeing the impact of enhanced mental health services. The foundation made a three-year, $156,000 grant to the Mercer County Mental Health [FULL STORY]