The Mercer County School District will continue to have access to a school resource officer. Unit 404 and the City of Aledo have renewed the agreement for another three years says Aledo Police Chief Chris Sullivan The school district will…
Local emergency responders paged out to search for a missing child in the rural Sherrard area. Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputies along with New Windsor Police responded to the call yesterday. Shortly after officers arrived, the child was located safe, asleep…
A Sherrard High School student among an Illinois FFA delegation visiting Washington. 28 members were on the trip last week—which included audiences with U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue and Western Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos. Ann Weber serves as the Section…
The Quad City attorney who represents a Mercer County woman in a meth case, has now had his own controlled substance case continued to later this year. 46 year old John G. Steckel of Rock Island faces Class 1 and…
They call themselves the YSSA Steel Smashers and they’re a local youth shooting sports team. The squad is having a good summer says coach Ron Maas of Eliza. The team includes locals–Ronnie Maas of Eliza and Ethan Mallette, Nick Creger…
Over 100 people served and over 10,000 pounds of food delivered—those are the results of a local Farm Bureau effort in one day. The River Bend Foodbank’s Mobile Food Pantry set up shop in Aledo on Thursday to meet a…
