David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy Park Board saved $158,115 against previously budgeted costs in voting to approve seven projects to be completed this summer. The board, minus Patty McGlothlin (who was ill), voted Wednesday night to spend $295,000 for milling and resurfacing work on the parking lot in the Paul Dennis Soccer Complex and $19,495 to…
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QUINCY — The Finance Committee voted on Monday night to send a proposal to the full Quincy City Council that calls for an increase in the amount of subsidy funding to the Quincy Public Library next year. Kathleen Helsabeck, executive director of the library, made a presentation during Monday’s meeting, which was attended by all…
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QUINCY — Swearing-in ceremonies were held during Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting to welcome Linus Moulton to the Quincy Police Department and to promote Brent Holtman to sergeant. Holtman also was recognized for his 25 years with the department. Moulton has 14 years of experience as a police officer and corrections officer in Kaufman…
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QUINCY — Jeffrey Conte can’t forget May 2, 2019, when he received an early-morning phone call. “We’ve got a problem,” Conte remembers hearing. Conte, the director of public works for the City of Quincy, learned a heavy rainstorm that night had led to a break in a storm sewer that runs underneath the water treatment…
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QUINCY — The city of Quincy’s drop-off recycling program is now a year old, and Quincy Mayor Mike Troup is thrilled with the results. “When I go and drop off (recyclable materials), I get people every other week who see me and say, ‘You know, I wanted to keep curbside. But I’ve got to tell…
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QUINCY — The anticipation for the opening of the Krazy Town Trampoline Park has been overwhelming at times for owner Kasey Schuster. The shell of the 30,000-square-foot building at 301 Spring is complete, and workers are inside daily putting together the colorful slides, pits, climbing walls, rock walls and trampolines. Schuster’s goal is for the park to…
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Troup's State of the City speech focuses on need for more housing, hotels, retail, skilled employees
QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup reviewed the city’s growth during the past year and noted what he saw as priorities for Quincy to continue that growth during his annual State of the City address on Friday at the Elks Club. Troup, who is in the last year of his first four-year term as mayor,…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup is expected to announce whether he will run for a second term Monday morning. While being interviewed by Muddy River News on Thursday about the State of the City speech he is scheduled to deliver to the Quincy Service Club at noon Friday, Troup was told he had one…
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QUINCY — The attorney for a husband and wife, former owners of a Quincy business now facing two theft charges, has filed a motion to dismiss a grand jury indictment in the case. He claims the indictments would not have occurred without false testimony and “misrepresentations” during the grand jury proceedings. St. Louis attorney Justin…
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QUINCY — The attorney for a Quincy man facing between one and three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, if found guilty of a Class 4 felony grooming charge, says he is unable to properly prepare his defense without more information. Giorgio Raad, 19, appeared in Adams County Circuit Court Tuesday morning with attorney…
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QUINCY — A Quincy man facing six felony charges, including attempted murder, has filed an amended motion saying he was defending himself in a December 2023 stabbing incident and wants his case dismissed. However, his attorney says he’s unlikely to adopt the motion as part of his defense. Jeremy J. Coleman, 29, appeared with Chief…
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QUINCY — The second of two men charged in connection to a September 2023 stabbing in the parking lot at Blessing Hospital waived his right to a jury trial on Tuesday morning and is set to accept a plea next week. Heaton Brothers, 20, of 1842 Maple, appeared in Adams County Circuit Court with attorney…
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QUINCY — Former President Donald Trump’s name remains on the Republican ballot for the March 19 primary for now, and votes already cast for him through early ballots and mail-in ballots are unaffected. But stay tuned. Adams County Clerk Ryan Niekamp said Thursday no changes have been made to the primary ballot in the wake…
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QUINCY — Max Dancer says the interest in the Brewhaus Townhomes development at Eighth and Jersey is emblematic of the needs of the Quincy housing market. The 34 townhomes are the result of a $7.5 million project that was greenlighted in March 2023. Happel Realtors was the host of a public open house on Thursday…
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Calhoun County judge to assist with criminal court docket in Adams County following Adrian dismissal
QUINCY — Chief Judge Frank McCartney has a tentative resolution as to how Robert Adrian will be replaced in the Eighth Judicial Circuit. He hopes to have answers soon as to how Adrian’s position will be filled in the future. Judge Charles H.W. Burch of Hardin, who has been handling the docket in Calhoun County,…
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QUINCY — Waiting until the last second turned out to be a good decision for Kharisma Sommers. The Quincy woman had taken second place and earned the jurors’ choice award during the Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition in 2014, and she earned the jurors’ choice award during the 2021 competition. When the deadline approached for the 2023…
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The new Chaddock CEO stops by to talk about the school and the transition to his leadership after the passing of Debbie Reed.
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QUINCY — Even after his removal as Eighth Circuit judge by the Illinois Courts Commission on Friday, Robert Adrian maintained his innocence in an interview late Friday afternoon with Muddy River News and called the ruling a “total political hit job.” Adrian found Drew Clinton, 18, guilty of felony criminal sexual assault following a three-day bench trial…
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QUINCY — The Illinois Courts Commission ruled Friday afternoon that the Judicial Inquiry Board proved “by clear and convincing evidence” that Eighth Circuit Judge Robert Adrian gave untruthful testimony before the Board constituting “willful misconduct” and has ordered him removed from office. The 33-page decision was posted on the Illinois Courts Commission’s website. Adrian found…
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QUINCY — An Adams County judge has ordered a mental fitness evaluation of a Clayton teen facing three counts of first-degree murder in connection to the shooting death of a Camp Point man. Wyond L. Bynum, Jr., 18, appeared with St. Louis-based attorney Victor Smith before Judge Robert Adrian in Adams County Circuit Court on…
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QUINCY — People who recently moved in Quincy or are new to living in Quincy have until March 7 to opt out of the city’s Municipal Aggregation Electricity Program. People who do not opt out before that date will have been deemed to have authorized and agreed to be enrolled in the program. All residents of…
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QUINCY — Christopher Pratt announced on his campaign Facebook page Wednesday morning he is withdrawing from the race for state’s attorney in Hancock County. “I apologize to the people of Hancock County and the Hancock County Republican Party for the timing of this decision,” Pratt wrote. “Recent developments within my current office have shifted key…
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Estate of Quincy woman makes gifts of nearly $100,000 apiece to Camp Callahan, Quincy Humane Society
QUINCY — Two Quincy organizations recently received gifts of nearly $100,000 apiece from the estate of a Quincy woman. Connie Sue Heck died at age 80 on Oct. 18, 2021, in Good Samaritan Home. Before she died, Heck gave Gloria Wilson, a neighbor of Heck’s for 13 years, power of attorney and named her the executor…
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SPRINGFIELD – Quincy Transit Lines has been awarded a grant for $2.065 million to pay for 13 buses. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Thursday that more than 500 paratransit vehicles valued at $57.1 million have been awarded to 113 transit providers through its Consolidated Vehicle Procurement Program. The vehicles will be delivered to public transportation…
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PALMYRA, Mo. — Officers with the Palmyra Police Department found nothing out of the ordinary when searching Palmyra Middle School on Wednesday after finding a threat written on a bathroom stall. Kristen Rathbone, an officer with the Palmyra Police Department and the school resource officer for the Palmyra School District, said in a written statement…
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QUINCY — Rome Frericks, executive director for the Quincy Park District, wants anybody interested in the tentative plan for the Quincy Bay habitat rehabilitation and enhancement project to come to an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Oakley-Lindsay Center, 300 Civic Center Plaza. The open house will be conducted in partnership…
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CANTON, Mo. — A building that used to be a popular bar for Culver-Stockton College students and alumni collapsed Monday afternoon and was demolished hours later. Tycher Blakely, chief of the Canton Police Department, said OC’s at the corner of Fifth and Clark collapsed “around 2:15 or 2:30 p.m.” “There were some workers in there,…
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QUINCY — A tract of land, owned by NLA Quincy LLC, along Broadway in front of Target will be converted into a shopping center, according to a document filed Tuesday in the Adams County Recorder’s Office. An 84-page operation and easement agreement between Target Corporation and Alabama-based developer NLA Quincy, LLC, for a “Broadway Plaza…
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QUINCY — Robbery charges for a Quincy man and a Quincy woman in connection to the October shooting death of a teenage girl were dropped Friday afternoon as they accepted the terms of a negotiated plea that should allow both of them to be free by July. Fallon M. Gillum, 21, and Tristian L. Johnson,…
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QUINCY — Construction will start Monday, Feb. 12 on the Sixth Street revitalization project between Maine and Vermont streets. A press release issued Friday from Steve Bange, engineering manager for the city, and Maggie Strong, project consultant, says initial construction will be the excavation of the water mains at various locations on Maine, Hampshire and…
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