The A & W Titans bounced back from their first loss of the season with a Homecoming rout over RIdgewood. Coach Tony Gripp's team rushed for well over 400 yards and had the game over by halftime. The win was just the confidence builder that the Titans needed as they welcome undeated A-Town to Wethersfield Stadium on Friday night.

It's Homecoming week for the undefeated Kewanee Boilermakers and Coach Brad Swanson says his team is well prepared for their rivalry game against the Princeton Tigers. The Coach of the Boilermakers talked to The Overtime on LocalSportsNow.com about the match up, about last week's win against Bureau Valley and about Quarterback and Homecoming King, Will Bruno.

Ahead of a huge match up on the road against the Kewanee Boilermakers, Princeton Tigers Coach Ryan Pearson talked to The Overtime on LocalSportsNow.com about getting players back from last week's injury plagued match up against Mendota and what has been the key to the Tigers undefeated start to the 2021 season.

YWCA of The Sauk Valley by Regional Media

Sara Billiet from the Kewanee Public Library was our guest on Wake Up Tri-Counties on Thursday, September 23rd. Sara was on hand to promote the Kewanee Public Library Art Show which gets underway on September 30th and will run into early October. If you haven't submitted your artwork to display, contact the Library immediately for more information. Art will be on display on the main floor in the Library starting September 30th. Sara also talked about Facebook Storytime on the KPL Facebook page, and a pair of spooky October programs happening in October.

Henry and Stark County added 192 new cases of COVID-19 since last Wednesday. That's the latest number from the Henry and Stark County Health Department tally of confirmed positive or probable cases of COVID-19. Henry and Stark County are each in the Orange Warning for COVID-19 meaning the County has a high number of new infections and a smaller number of available ICU beds. Both of these metrics, used by the state to determine COVID-19 status, are further indications of the need to get more eligible people to get vaccinated.

CGH About Your Health by Regional Media

Colleen Ewing, Outreach Coordinator for Memorial Hospital, spoke to MacombNewsNow.com about the restarting of Memorial Hospital's Dementia Caregivers Support Group. Meetings are for Caregivers only and the meetings take place on the first Thursday of every month, in the Board Room at Memorial Hospital in Carthage at 5:30 Pm. It's a chance for Caregivers to build the kind of support network that they need given the trials of being a caregiver to someone with dementia.

Todd Dedecker from the Bishop Hill Heritage Association joined Wake Up Tri-Counties on Wednesday morning to chat about Ag Day, also known in Swedish as Jordbruksdagarna. The Ag Day Celebration runs on Saturday and Sunday, September 25th and 26th, with numerous free family activities across Bishop Hill. See how agriculture was done in the 19th century and enjoy the sights and sounds of Bishop Hill's 175th Anniversary with plenty of music and food to accompany the fun.

In the September 2021 edition of Kewanee Back When, Sean Kernan and Dave Clark travel back in time to discover the origin of a pair of school buildings in Kewanee. You may think you know who the Blish Building at Wethersfield is named for but you may just have the wrong Blish as Dave Clark explains. You may also know who Belle Alexander is but there are some mysteries still to uncover as Dave takes us on an audio journey through the life of Belle Alexander as part of Kewanee Back When on WKEI.