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QUINCY – The Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District has denied the appeal of Tim Bliefnick, the Quincy man convicted of murdering his estranged wife in Feb. 2023. The court affirmed the conviction and three life sentences he received in August 2023. He remains in the Menard Correctional Center. Bliefnick’s attorneys based their argument that…
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QUINCY — Adams County Circuit Judge Tad Brenner has accepted a plea deal between the Adams County State’s Attorney’s office and a Quincy man charged with first-degree murder. Victor A. Weems III, 20, and his attorney, Matt Wayman with the Hammer Law Firm in St. Louis, and First Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Eyler appeared before…
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QUINCY — An organization recently founded to offer rewards to help track down leads and eventually solve local cold cases has its first significant donation. Friends of Justice CEO Jack Miller said an anonymous donor has contributed $10,000 for information that leads to the prosecution of the person responsible for the 2019 slaying of Dennis…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup told the city’s Aeronautics Committee Wednesday that “multiple” airlines interested in taking over the Essential Air Service contract have reached out. In August, Troup wrote to the U.S. Department of Transportation and said Southern Airways Express, which has provided essential air service at the Quincy airport since Dec. 1,…
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I am fascinated by The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and love the Alan Moore comic and movie that followed, “V for Vendetta”. Remember, remember!The fifth of November,The Gunpowder treason and plot;I know of no reasonWhy the Gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot!Guy Fawkes and his companionsDid the scheme contrive,To blow the King and ParliamentAll up alive.Threescore…
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QUINCY – After months of debate by the public and waffling by some aldermen, the Quincy City Council came together Monday night to dump the issue of improvements to the intersection of 48th and State back into the lap of the Adams County Board. After all, Mayor Mike Troup said it was their road. “I’ve…
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QUINCY — Alderman Kelly Mays (R-3rd Ward) requested a breakdown of cost differences between a roundabout, stop lights and added turn lanes at 48th and State. Those are included in a packet that was provided to the Quincy City Council for discussion at Monday night’s meeting and is in the linked document.
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QUINCY – At the close of business on Friday, nearly 13,000 of Adams County’s votes for Tuesday’s general election had already been cast. That’s a little more than 29 percent according to Adams County Clerk Ryan Niekamp. Those totals consisted of 11,062 early votes and 1,918 votes by mail. In 2020, more than 17,500 people…
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MRN’s J. Robert Gough talks to Quincy School District officials about the school’s ranking in the latest Illinois School Report Card, which came out last week, and what can be done to improve the numbers.
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QUINCY — The majority of the 26 speakers at Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting didn’t want to talk about the “ridiculous roundabout” as one opponent called it, or the preservation of St. Boniface Church. Ten of the speakers wanted to advocate for better housing conditions for Quincy renters. Lisa Wigoda, a member of Quincy’s Safe…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council Monday night voted to grant St. Boniface Church, 641 Maine, landmark status. The 11-3 vote to support the effort included two aldermen who previously voted to deny the application: Mike Rein (R-5th Ward) and Jack Holtschlag (D-7th Ward). Holtschlag gave his reasons for the change of heart before he…
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QUINCY – As Halloween approaches, the issue of the 48th and State roundabout continues to haunt the community. It returns from the dead as does Count Dracula. It staggers like a zombie from “The Walking Dead.” Wooden stake, anyone? Daryl Dixon’s crossbow handy? The issue doesn’t appear to be any closer to finality as a…
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QUINCY — The Great River Economic Development Foundation announced Tuesday that MadisonBadgley Peters has been promoted to the position of Vice President of the organization. This is a newly-created post as GREDF and its president, Kyle Moore, prepare for the likelihood that Moore will be elected to the Illinois House of Representatives next month. Moore…
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QUINCY — A Quincy company redeveloping a downtown building into mixed-use is requesting more than $300,000 in tax increment financing from the City of Quincy as part of its nearly $6.9 million redevelopment of a century-old building. The Finance Committee unanimously voted during its Monday night meeting to send the proposal to the full City…
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QUINCY — Two GOP mayoral candidates turned in petitions at the beginning of the filing period Monday morning at Quincy City Hall. Brink was first in line with 740 signatures on his petitions. Troup was third in line behind former City Clerk Janet Hutmacher, who was turning in the petitions for City Clerk Laura Oakman.…
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QUINCY — Quincy Community Theatre Executive Director Burgundy Hill has announced that Brandon Thomsen is departing his role as the organization’s artistic director on Nov. 8. In a social media post Wednesday morning, Hill said it was a “bittersweet” moment, calling Thomsen “a remarkable colleague and dear friend.” Thomsen was with QCT for 18 years,…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board will vote in its 2025 fiscal year budget in November and it is expected to be 3 to 4 percent higher than the current year’s spending plan. Finance Committee Chairman Bret Austin told the board at Tuesday night’s meeting the committee and staff have compiled the expected revenues and…
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Dave and Theresa Bockhold of rural Payson, will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary at a dinner with their children and grandchildren. They also celebrated this past May with a trip to Germany where they visited ancestral farms and met distant cousins. Mr. Bockhold and the former Theresa Genenbacher were married on October 27, 1979 in…
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No, it’s not the newest Marvel or DC movie. But Jack Miller wanted to do something when the 2012 death of his friend, Nancy Streitmatter, went unsolved. So Miller formed a non-profit to provide reward money to anyone who has information that could lead to the solving of this cold case and other local unsolved…
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QUINCY — A decision earlier this week by Circuit Judge Christopher Pratt garnered a strong reaction from the first assistant Adams County State’s Attorney — who likely will be the county’s next state’s attorney. Darren D. Caillier, 28, was in court Wednesday on a petition to deny pretrial release on charges related to an incident…
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QUINCY — A Clayton teen facing first-degree murder charges will not go to trail in November. Wyond L. Bynum, Jr., 19, appeared in Adams County Circuit Court on Wednesday morning before Associate Circuit Court Judge Holly Henze. Bynum’s first attorney, Victor Smith of St. Louis, withdrew last month and Bynum now is being represented by…
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QUINCY — The issue of the roundabout about 48th and State still can’t find the right exit. After Adams County reached out to the City of Quincy with multiple options to transfer the property, the Quincy City Council on Monday tabled a resolution regarding a counteroffer to the County. Alderman Eric Entrup (R-1st Ward) said…
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Kim and Monica (Buswell) Fleer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception hosted by their children: Nathan and Jess Fleer of Quincy, Gabe and Amber Fleer of Willard (MO), Hannah and Jim Abbott of Columbia (MO), Zach and Maren Fleer of Ashland (MO). Kim and Monica were married in Lewistown, MO, September 1974, in…
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Today’s Morning Muddy, which is brought to you by Muddy River Engraving, is old school. The written word. Why? Because we’re in the process of working on fixing some technical difficulties in our office/studio this morning. You see, Friday night our Muddy Night Lights powered by Farm and Home Supply didn’t go live as usual.…
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MRN’s J. Robert Gough talks to the men in charge of the City of Quincy’s Planning Department to get an update on where the Riverfront project stands from their perspective.
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QUINCY — After three days of random posts on social media threatening students, officials with Quincy Public Schools and Quincy Police Department say the investigation has concluded them to believe the threats do not post a security risk. “These threats have been investigated and don’t pose a security risk to our schools,” Todd Pettit, superintendent…
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QUINCY — Quincy School Board member Richard McNay wants the school district to consider its options on how to proceed with a faulty HVAC system at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary. At Wednesday night’s School Board meeting, McNay showed slides of the leaking freon and clogged filters and coils from a system that is supposed to be self-cleaning.…
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QUINCY — Wednesday’s Quincy School Board meeting didn’t have anyone from the public comment on the events of the week where multiple schools have been in “soft lockdown” or “secure mode”, but one board member decided he wanted to clear the air on the subject. Jim Whitfield, who has been on the Quincy School Board…
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