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JoAnne Barnes – Services 5/3/23

April 30, 2023 Ty Taylor

JoAnne Barnes, 92 of Sherrard, Illinois, passed away peacefully on the morning of Saturday, April 29, 2023, due to natural causes at Mercer Manor of Aledo. Visitation will be 10 to 11 a.m., Wednesday, May [FULL STORY]

Tigers Beat Riverdale In Extras

April 28, 2023 Ty Taylor

Sherrard (17-4, 9-1 TRAC West) beat Riverdale 3-2 in baseball in eight innings Thursday. Maddux Harksen threw a complete game for Sherrard. He allowed two unearned runs on six hits in eight innings. Harksen tallied [FULL STORY]

Mercer County Unemployment Rate Above Statewide Average

April 28, 2023 Ty Taylor

The Mercer County unemployment rate at 5.3 percent. The number is for March and compares to a 5.5 percent reading a year ago. Unemployment is also steady from year over year numbers in Henry, Knox, [FULL STORY]

WRMJ Interview: Scholastic Bowl Hall Of Fame Honor For Joy’s Jim Campbell

April 28, 2023 Ty Taylor

WRMJ spoke with Jim Campbell this week. He has been inducted into the Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Campbell is the scholastic bowl coach and a teacher at Riverdale High [FULL STORY]

Business Spotlight – Landmark Solar

April 28, 2023 Ty Taylor

Today John Hoscheidt will talk with Kerry Keller, the general manager of Landmark Solar in Muscatine. They will talk about the increasing popularity of solar power on the farm, the Rural Energy for America program, [FULL STORY]

School Resource Officer For Apollo; Unit 404 Acquires Property

April 27, 2023 Ty Taylor

Apollo Elementary School will be getting their own school resource officer. The decision was announced at this week’s Unit 404 Board of Education meeting says Superintendent Scott Petrie. The district also has school resource officers [FULL STORY]

High School Sports Spotlight: Johnson Enjoying Three-Sport Senior Year At Sherrard

April 27, 2023 Ty Taylor

WRMJ spoke with Sherrard High School senior track and field athlete Alyus Johnson for the High School Sports Spotlight Thursday. Johnson also was a member of the Sherrard boys basketball and Orion-Sherrard boys soccer teams.

Mercer County Blanks Sherrard

April 27, 2023 Ty Taylor

Mercer County (7-9) combined for a one-hit shutout in a 6-0 win over Sherrard (16-4) Wednesday. The Golden Eagles scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning and added four more in the [FULL STORY]

Mercer County Accepts TRAC Invite Starting 2024-25

April 26, 2023 Ty Taylor

The Mercer County School District Board of Education voted to accept an invitation to join the Three Rivers Athletic Conference (TRAC) Wednesday. It was approved on a 4-3 school board vote. Tab Balmer, Jacob Lower, [FULL STORY]

Mercer County To Decide On TRAC Invitation Wednesday Night

April 26, 2023 Ty Taylor

The Mercer County School District Board of Education will decide on an invitation from the Three Rivers Athletic Conference (TRAC) Wednesday. Mercer County has competed in the Lincoln Trail Conference since the Aledo and Westmer [FULL STORY]