Western Illinois Today

The Mercer County School District has named Stacey Day its deputy superintendent. Day returns to the Mercer County School District after serving as Mercer County High School principal from 2014-2022. She previously worked as a [FULL STORY]

Voters in the New Boston-Eliza Fire Protection District will decide on a proposed ambulance tax aimed at restoring an ambulance service to the district in Tuesday’s primary election. Voters in the New Boston-Eliza Fire Protection [FULL STORY]

Mercer County voters will be electing a new sheriff during Tuesday’s primary election. The three candidates, Casey Switzer, Thomas Smith, and Clayton Brendal, are all running in the Republican primary. Switzer and Brendal are both [FULL STORY]

The Mercer County School District has scheduled a special school board meeting to hire a deputy superintendent this week. The meeting scheduled for Tuesday lists creating a deputy superintendent position and hiring a deputy superintendent/superintendent [FULL STORY]

UPDATE: This event has been canceled due to the weather. An Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate is hosting a rally in Galesburg with local candidates for U.S. Representative, state representative, and state senate on Monday. Darren [FULL STORY]

WRMJ spoke with Rockridge High School junior Rori Myers for the High School Spotlight this week. Myers was recently selected for the Treble Honor Choir at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Midwest Conference in Milwaukee.  Last [FULL STORY]

In next week’s primary election, all three candidates running for Mercer County Sheriff are on the Republican ballot. Casey Switzer and Clayton Brendal, both Mercer County sheriff’s deputies, and Thomas Smith, an Aledo Police Department [FULL STORY]

A Sherrard School District educator has been named the 2026 Illinois Education Association (IEA) Support Professional of the Year. In her 21 years of service to the Sherrard School District, Teresa Boraas worked at the [FULL STORY]

A former Mercer County High School ag teacher’s inappropriate text messaging case has been continued to later this month. 28-year-old Brandon Livingston appeared in Mercer County Circuit Court on Monday, where a pre-trial conference was [FULL STORY]