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Muddy River News Publisher/General Manager Bob Gough sits down with Barb Baker Chapin and Dawn Whitcomb with the Adams County Suicide Prevention Coalition regarding their efforts with the organization. We also preview the September 11 fundraiser Behind The Mask: An English Garden Party.
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QUINCY — You won’t be taken away in handcuffs if you choose to defy Gov. JB Pritzker’s order to wear a mask indoors. A mask mandate inside buildings begins Monday across Illinois. Quincy Police Chief Rob Copley said Friday education will the focus of his staff when complaints are lodged by the public about masks…
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QUINCY — Quincy Superintendent Roy Webb heard the news Thursday morning about the vaccine mandate issued by Gov. JB Pritzker. Now Webb must figure out how to implement that mandate. The vaccine requirement goes into effect Sept. 5. It will apply to “all P-12 teachers and staff, all higher education personnel, all higher education students…
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MENDON — Jessica Humke struggled to spit the word out of her mouth. “Yes.” Humke and six other members of the Community Unit School District No. 4 School Board voted Wednesday night at Unity Elementary School to follow Gov. JB Pritzker’s announcement this month that masks are required for students, teachers and staff at pre-K…
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QUINCY — The idea made complete sense. Gov. JB Pritzker’s executive action has protected from eviction any Illinois residents who can’t pay rent because of the pandemic since March 2020. Nearly 18 months later, local landlords are ready for the eviction moratorium to expire. “A lot of politicians on the state and federal level are…
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The Illinois State Board of Education is updating its list of schools that have chosen to defy Governor JB Pritzker’s mask mandate. The Warsaw School Board voted 5-2 on Monday night to follow the mask mandate when the district returns from the Labor Day break on September 7. School officials met with ISBE representatives earlier…
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QUINCY — A Quincy construction firm is waiting for its day in court to collect more than $110,000 from Adams County in a dispute about additional work completed during the demolition process before the construction of the Adams County Jail. The suit, filed in April 2018, was scheduled to go to trial on Monday. However,…
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QUINCY — The fundraising goal of the Quincy Children’s Museum has changed … and it hasn’t. The museum board announced in May it had a fundraising goal of $150,000. That figure would be achieved by getting 50 people or families to make a minimum $1,000 contribution, as well as 50 businesses or groups to make…
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Warsaw native Steve Lucie of We Stand for Our Students, a community group concerned about parent choice regarding mask options, spoke during the Illinois State Board of Education’s meeting in Springfield on Aug. 18. He returned to Quincy for a taping of Muddy River News This Week, then attended the Warsaw School Board meeting. That’s…
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QUINCY — Jay Krottinger and Ryan Jude Tanner were so pleased with the work done last year by Fischer Builders during the remodeling of the Patio Restaurant and Lounge that they’ve teamed up to create a new company. Krottinger and Tanner, partners in Tanninger Companies, have formed Fischer & Tanniger with Meegan Fischer and Ryan…
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A doctor and member of the Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education says state regulators are threatening his medical license over his criticism of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s school mask mandate. Dr. Jeremy Henrichs works at Carle Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Champaign, which is division of Carle Hospital in Urbana. He is a sports team physician at the…
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MENDON, Ill. – The Community Unit School District No. 4 School Board didn’t muster the votes to overturn its decision to remain mask optional. On August 4, the Board voted 5-2 to defy Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s decree that masks would be required for all students, teachers and staff for Pre-K to 12 students across Illinois…
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Classes started Wednesday without incident at several schools around Adams County as students followed state mask mandates in the Payson and Quincy school districts. Students arrived at Payson Elementary School with backpacks, school supplies and smiles hiding behind their masked faces. Principal Julie Phelan met families outside and greeted students. She gently reminded a few…
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The Department of Justice has announced it has reached a $2.82 million settlement with Blessing Hospital regarding a voluntary disclosure made by the hospital. Cardiac procedures were performed at Blessing that resulted in overpayments. Hospital officials say the procedures in question were performed by a physician who used to work at “a non-Blessing medical group…
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PAYSON, Ill. — Chanse Barker grew tired of the fight. His “yes” vote was part of the 5-1 vote by the Payson School Board on Monday night to amend the Return to School plan for Community Unit School District No. 1 to make masks mandatory for all students, teachers and staff — regardless of vaccination…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Students who arrive at Quincy schools without a mask for classes on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday will be sent home and given an excused absence. Those absences become unexcused next week. Superintendent Roy Webb outlined the Quincy School District’s plans for dealing with students without masks in a Facebook post on Sunday. The…
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QUINCY — Roger Parker Jr., who claimed he grew tired of being bullied by Darrell “D.J.” Kelley Jr. and shot him to death on Sept. 26, 2019, was sentenced to 20 years on Friday morning in an Adams County courtroom. Parker, 18, pled guilty in May to one count of second-degree murder. He was 16…
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CAMP POINT, Ill. — The Central School Board voted 3-2 Thursday night to highly recommend its students wear masks for the upcoming school year, but Nikki Buehler celebrated for only a moment. “The work is not done,” she said after the meeting. “We have to get ready for the fight now.” Buehler is a parent…
Read Full Article Local school boards might want to pay attention. The Illinois State Board of Education isn’t messing around. A letter signed by Carmen Ayala, state superintendent of education, was emailed Wednesday to Timothy Christian Schools in Elmhurst, Ill., informing Superintendent Matt Davidson the school’s status as a recognized nonpublic school was removed “effective immediately.” Davidson announced…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Park District’s Board of Commissioners endorsed the City of Quincy’s pursuit of a $200,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for a transient boat dock to be built at Clat Adams Park. Just don’t be surprised if the Park Board chooses not to give the city any money. Commissioners…
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QUINCY — The Quincy School Board voted 5-2 on Wednesday morning to follow Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mask mandate for pre K-12 students, which was also the recommendation of Quincy Superintendent Roy Webb. Sayeed Ali, Shelley Arns, Rachel Petty, Carol Nichols and LaTonya Brock voted for the mandate. Richard McNay and Jim Whitfield opposed it. About…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal City Council heard an update on plans to convert the former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at 109 Virginia into housing for senior citizens during a special public meeting Tuesday night. The meeting was led by Ben Porush, dIrector of operations for 3 Diamond Development in Lincolnwood, Ill. Porush said the plan…
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QUINCY – Quincy City Treasurer Linda Moore gave a detailed report to the Quincy City Council Monday night that showed the City is on track to bring in more revenue than expected from the Food and Beverage tax. So far, the one-cent increase has brought in more than $716,000 to city coffers this year. City…
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QUINCY — Pope Francis cracked down last month on the spread of the old Latin Mass by reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI’s signature decisions. However, the Latin Mass celebrated daily at St. Rose of Lima, 1009 N. Eighth, is unaffected. Pope Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass that Pope Benedict relaxed in 2007.…
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QUINCY — Troy Culbertson was living in Quincy when he learned of 14 people dying and more than 50 being sickened from multiple outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease at the Illinois Veterans Home in 2015. Culbertson, who has worked in the long-term care business for 31 years, replaced Bruce Vaca as the administrator of the Veterans…
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