New improvements coming to student assessment tests

The State Board of Education announced last week improvements to the student assessment test. The Illinois Assessment of Readiness, formerly known as the “PARCC” test is given to students in third through eighth grades in March. It

Railroad Days shooter gets prison sentence

A plea deal was reached and a two-year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections was given to a Galesburg man for firing a handgun into the air during Railroad Days last year.