Month: December 2022

Last week’s $1.7 trillion omnibus spending plan approved by Congress includes $225,000 for Mercer County Better Together’s Business Retention and Expansion Program. That information from Western Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos. She says the funding will [FULL STORY]

A holiday weekend accident at the intersection of Bald Bluff Road and 50th Avenue injures one. The one-vehicle crash occurred on Saturday, according to a Mercer County Sheriff’s Department report. Keithsburg, Seaton and Joy fire [FULL STORY]

WRMJ caught up with independent filmmaker Christina Shaver on Friday. She provided an update on the project she shot in Aledo last June. The name of the film is “Everything Fun You Could Possibly Do [FULL STORY]

The current average for a gallon of gasoline in Mercer County is $3.31. The state average is $3.22 with the national average at $3.09, according to information from AAA. Statewide, the week ago average was [FULL STORY]

Mercer County’s unemployment rate now at 3.6 percent. The number is for November and represents a three-point increase from the same period a year ago, according to data released by the Illinois Department of Employment [FULL STORY]