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QUINCY — The Adams County Board has approved the first grant allocations from the $1 million set aside for housing out of American Rescue Plan Act dollars. There were 21 applicants for the Growing Residential Opportunities County-Wide (GROW) program and 17 were awarded funds totaling $740,000. The Great River Economic Development Foundation (GREDF) vetted the…
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MRN Publisher J. Robert Gough talks about the company’s mission, growth and focus.
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QUINCY — Every time a different bidder pondered whether to offer another $5,000 for the 13,000 square foot building at 20th and Hampshire, Trina Casburn was quick to counter with another $5,000 more. It was pretty evident during the bidding that the owner of Quincy Storage and Transfer wanted the property, which she got for…
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QUINCY — For the first time in nearly 80 years, you can’t listen to Quincy High School or Quincy Notre Dame sports on your radio (if you still have one of those). Muddy River News learned last week that WTAD-AM, one of five local radio stations owned by STARadio Corporation, has dropped its high school…
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Professor Chad DeWaard of Culver-Stockton College talks about the national political landscape after a tumultuous last few weeks (Months? Years?).
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CHICAGO — Governor JB Pritzker and Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton issued a news release Tuesday night, calling for the resignation of Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell following the death of Sonya Massey. A Sanagmon County deputy, Sean Grayson, was captured on video shooting and killing Massey on July 6. Grayson was fired and faces murder…
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Ralls County results Incumbent Brad Stinson is defeated by Brian Allen in the Republican primary for sheriff. Allen won with 57 percent of the vote. Stinson, who faced lawsuits from former employees regarding retaliation and harassment charges during his term, thanked his supporters on Facebook. “I wish to thank everyone for your support and encouragement,”…
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If you want to spend at least $250,000, you can own a sturdy 13,000 square foot building smack dab in a residential neighborhood. At least a dozen people have kicked the tires on the Quincy Public School property at 20th and Hampshire (known as “The Bus Barn”) by touring and/or inquiring about the building, which…
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MRN’s J. Robert Gough talks to Rev. Orville Jones about the Back to School Help Fair at Iles Elementary on Aug. 3. He also touches on local reaction to the Sonya Massey killing and his role as a minister to comfort those who suffer tragedies. He also now has a new role at the O’Donnell-Cookson…
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QUINCY — A week after an open discussion about how much effort was being put into cleaning up Quincy, the conversation turned into how to fix the problem. At Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting, Director of Public Works Jeffrey Conte discussed staffing changes and nuisance abatement strategies to be conducted by Central Services. Conte said…
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MRN’s J. Robert Gough talks to the new Adams County Chief Public Defender, Jon Hoover, about taking over the office and its duties and responsibilities.
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QUINCY — After the city tabled a proposed sales tax for an Omaha developer to build a new restaurant hub complex at 54th and Broadway, the Quincy City Council voted to create a new $1 million tax incentive to support the effort. The resolution will create the 54th Street Business Development District and impose an…
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QUINCY — On Tuesday, the Transportation, Building and Technology Committee recommended and the Adams County Board tabbed Architechnics of Quincy to design a new heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system for the courthouse. Architechnics $625,000 bid was higher than the $597,000 bid from RTM Engineering from St. Louis but, after input from local contractors and…
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With all of the discussion about tax dollars assisting private development, here’s a bulletin: It’s been going on here for decades. Now, not all of it has been directly for a specific property, as is being proposed for the Tanninger Companies’ quest to turn the Illinois State Bank building into a boutique hotel, but millions…
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Steve Eighinger, aka “Stevie Dirt”, aka “Stevie Love”, discusses writing his 1000th Daily Dirt, racing and a variety of other topics.
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QUINCY — One person was shot and two suspects are in custody following a Saturday afternoon shooting at an east end Quincy shopping center. The shooting took place just before 2:30 p.m. at the east side of the Prairie Crossing parking lot outside of Petco and TJ Maxx. Quincy Police Chief Adam Yates told Muddy…
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MRN’s J. Robert Gough talks to Missouri State Representative Louis Riggs about disfunction at the State Capitol (well, at least in the chamber opposite of the House), progress on the Hannibal Bypass and supporting education to fit into today’s workforce needs.
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QUINCY — The Quincy School Board met Wednesday night and did some budgetary house cleaning to wrap up the fiscal year that ends June 30. The board approved an amended 2023-24 budget to finish with $98.8 million in revenues and $93.5 million in expenses. The $5.3 million fiscal year end surplus means the district now…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board’s Transportation, Building and Technology Committee sent a recommendation to the full board to approve a solar farm near Fowler in Ellington Township, northeast of Quincy. The item will be on the County Board’s July 9 agenda to propose Summit Ridge Energy to build a 3-megawatt solar farm consisting of…
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If you didn’t have a chance to watch our MRN This Week panel discussion on tax incentives for businesses, you should: Debates make for better content, I’ll admit. Aren’t we all just waiting for our octogenarian presidents go at it Thursday night? Biden drooling … Trump’s makeup running as Jake Tapper turns off the air…
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QUINCY — With 250 days to go until the Feb. 25, 2025, Illinois consolidated primary, the two Republicans who have announced their intentions to run for Quincy mayor have some money in the bank to run their campaigns. But probably not enough yet. According to documentation filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections, Mayor…
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SPRINGFIELD – Don Tracy, who presided as the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, resigned from the position Wednesday after three-and-a-half years. Tracy, a Springfield attorney, was unable to rally a party that sits in super minorities in both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly and hasn’t held a single statewide elected position since Democrat…
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The president of the Quincy Park Board and chairman of the city’s Human Rights Commission is this week’s guest on MRN This Week.
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QUINCY — When Quincy Police Chief Adam Yates asked the City Council for permission to put cameras around the city one year ago, he did it hoping it would assist in catching those suspected to be involved in crimes. And the Flock license plate readers appear to have done that. Yates gave a report to…
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QUINCY — Quincy developer Tom Marx has told city officials it will take about $2.5 million in site improvements for him to entice a retail business to locate in the vacant Sears portion of the Quincy Town Center. Marx is requesting $250,000 from the Mid-Town Business District fund to go toward those renovations. This is the same…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Developer Jim Otis from Omaha said he hopes to place four restaurants and a gas station/convenience story at the nearly eight acre lot on the northeast corner of 54th and Broadway. But first, he wants receive a $1 million sales tax rebate from the City of Quincy. At Monday night’s Finance Committee meeting…
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The executive director of Quincy’s downtown group, The District, talks about Blues in The District, which kicks off its 2024 season on Friday, June 14 in Washington Park. She also talks about other events coming up this summer as well as the organization’s future home at 5th and Hampshire.
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The new director of the Quincy Museum stops by to talk about what the mansion at 1601 Maine has to offer. From tours, to meetings and special events, let them know how they can host you or your group.
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We all love solicitors, right? Unexpected door-to-door salesmen who are schlepping their goods or trying to sell you their religion? I’m sure many of them are legitimately trying to do their work (or God’s work), but how do you know? Girl Scouts selling cookies? Athletes selling Shakespeare’s Pizzas? Boy Scouts (Er … Scouts, now I…
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QUINCY — Libraries are supposed to be quiet places. But with the Quincy City Council meeting in the Quincy Public Library because of renovations at City Hall, aldermen and members of the administration raised their voices Tuesday night as they debated how to prioritize street projects in the city’s seven wards. The discussion kicked off…
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