The latest segment of Jim & Brian Talking High School Sports on the Radio involves discussion of an influx of Chicago schools now playing at the small school level in the IHSA postseason.
WRMJ News Director Jim Taylor spoke with Mercer County High School senior Gabbi Whitehall. She is playing the lead in the next Friday and Saturday’s (March 9 and 10) musical production Once on This Island.
The Lincoln Trail Conference announced their 2017-8 girls All-Conference basketball teams. Conference champion Annawan had four players named to the first or second team. Runner-up Princeville matched that. Mercer County had two players named to the second team. 2017-18…
A $19,000 check was presented to the River Bend Foodbank today. The money comes from the Bushels for Hunger program–coordinated by the Mercer, Rock Island, Henry, Stark and Whiteside County Farm Bureaus. Since 2010, the program has donated over $200,000…
WRMJ Sports Director Jim Taylor previewed the 2018 baseball season with Mercer County senior pitcher Cade Quick this morning.
Warren and Mercer Counties with the top two average corn yield numbers in Illinois for 2017. Warren at just over 246 bushels per acre and Mercer at 238. The numbers from state crop statistician Mark Schleusner. Mercer County’s average soybean…
