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QUINCY — The smiles on the faces of Paul and Joan Mast showed how excited they were to provide a drug dog to the Adams County Sheriff’s Department. Seeing the dog also brought back memories. Major, a silver tipped German Shepherd, was publicly introduced to a gathering of friends and family on Thursday night at…
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QUINCY — Bard Optical, a retail optical services provider with 20 locations in Illinois, will be putting its 21st location in the Prairie Trails Shopping Center. Construction work is underway at the site near 63rd and Broadway between the Bath and Body Works store and Jen’s Nails. Vice President Mick Hall hopes for the store to open…
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QUINCY — The Quincy School Board received the district’s tentative 2023-24 budget at Wednesday night’s school board meeting. The $111.3 million spending plan includes a 4 percent average salary increase for district employees and a 20 percent increase in health insurance costs. The 2022-23 amended budget ended up at $97.6 million. The rising cost of health…
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QUINCY — Now that Target has finally opened its doors, Quincy shoppers want to know what businesses will be filling three parcels of property on the northeast corner of 36th and Broadway. Muddy River News has confirmed through multiple sources that Raising Cane’s, an American fast-food restaurant chain specializing in chicken fingers, will be built on a…
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CANTON, Mo. — The newly appointed mayor of Canton has appointed a five-person citizen’s advisory ad hoc committee to help with the search for a police chief. Well, the committee is actually searching for an entire police department. Sharon Upchurch, the city’s mayor pro tem for the past two weeks, was sworn in as the…
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QUINCY — An arbitrator issued a 16-page ruling Monday that agreed with the Police Benevolent and Protective Association Labor Unit 12’s proposal for wage increases and length of contract for officers with the Quincy Police Department, bringing an end to the collective bargaining dispute that has lasted for more than two years. The police union…
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PEKIN, Ill. — Jeff Mays, director of administrative services for the city of Quincy, is one of two finalists for the position of city manager in Pekin. Members of the Pekin City Council had a special meeting on Friday to complete their final round of interviews with Mays and Pekin Police Chief John Dossey to…
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Dear MRN: On Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 9:30 p.m. while viewing the Perseid meteor shower, we observed a long chain of white lights — about 30 to 40 —moving from the northwest to the southeast. The light chain moved slowly in a “jerky” forward movement, staying in a line but moving in “jumps.” We watched…
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Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips take you to Ipava and what was once Camp Ellis, a POW camp during World War II. Dot Foods brings you Muddy River Gems.
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QUINCY — A Quincy man is in the Adams County Jail after Quincy Police Department received a report that he exposed himself at The Crossing. Police report they arrested Tyrone Davis, 42, of Quincy, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday after allegedly exposing himself in the presence of children The Crossing’s 150 S. 48th location. Davis faces…
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MRN’s J. Robert Gough talks to Quincy Notre Dame Principal Mark McDowell about the start of the school year and QND’s role in the community.
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QUINCY — A Daytona Beach, Fla., woman made her first appearance Friday morning in Adams County Circuit Court after she was charged with theft. Olivia Wiemelt, 28, appeared without an attorney Friday morning in front of Judge Debra Wellborn. A warrant was issued for her arrest on June 12. The warrant was served by the…
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MRN’s Ron Kinscherf talks to Morgan Miles, owner of Miles Design about her new business, which is a full service interior design firm with experience in a wide variety of commercial projects of various sizes and complexities. Mercantile Bank sponsors the Business Spotlight.
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QUINCY — Less than one week after impassioned victim impact statements pleaded for a tougher sentence for her part in the deaths of four people in an August 2020 traffic crash, Natasha McBride is out on parole. According to the Illinois Department of Corrections, McBride was released from Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln the same…
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QUINCY — Neal Meyer helped enforce speed limits in school zones and raised money for speed zone signs throughout the city during his time as a traffic analysis officer for the Quincy Police Department. Now he is trying to slow down drivers in Adams County. Meyer retired from QPD in 2016, and now he’s an…
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Roberto Stellino and his team have made Quincy’s Tiramisu ristorante one of the region’s premier dining establishments — now at Fourth and Hampshire on the city’s square at Washington Park. The food, the ambiance and the service are elite. After 27 years, Stellino is stepping away from the restaurant. He and his wife, Terri, are…
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QUINCY — First the Adams County Courthouse didn’t need to be closed. Then it did. Now it doesn’t. John Jurgeil of Jurgeil and Associates out of St. Charles, Mo., gave a report to the Adams County Board Tuesday night that said the building did need some remediation, it was okay to continue conducting business there.…
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HANNIBAL, MO. – Hannibal Mayor Pro Tem Mike Dobson will need another councilman to join his request for the court to rehear the impeachment case against Stephan Franke before it goes before the court. On Aug. 7, Judge John J. Jackson signed a judgment stating Dobson alone cannot replace former Mayor John Hark’s attempt to…
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QUINCY — After nearly 45 minutes of debate, the Quincy City Council voted Monday night to approve a resolution that relaxes and extended residency requirements for officers with the Quincy Police Department. The Police Benevolent and Protective Association Unit 12, which represents the officers and supervisors with the Quincy Police Department, and the City of Quincy have a…
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QUINCY — A debate about the use of the word “alderperson” punctuated the end of Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting. Greg Fletcher (R-1) asked Dunn why he is being referred to “Alderperson” Fletcher at times during recent meetings. “Can you enlighten me where this ‘alderperson’ crap is coming from?” he said. “I was elected two…
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QUINCY — A Clayton man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection to the shooting death of a Camp Point man, and his bond has been set at $3 million. Wyond L. Bynum, Jr., 18, made his first appearance in Adams County Circuit Court with Assistant Public Defender Sarah Lucey on…
Read Full Article CAMP POINT, Ill. — A 22-year-old male is dead and an 18-year-old is in custody after a body was delivered to the Adams County EMS station in Camp Point early Monday morning. Adams County Sheriff Tony Grootens said deputies are still searching for a murder weapon and investigators are trying to determine where the fatal…
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PERRY, Mo.— Mike Barron was first in a cockpit at about two weeks old, flying with his parents, both pilots. A few years later, Mike was the kid down in the tail of the plane working for 75 cents an hour. “I was cheap labor but to get paid anything to clean the gear on…
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QUINCY – One man was taken to Blessing Hospital following a shooting in the southeastern part of Quincy early Sunday morning. Quincy Police responded to a “shots fired” call around 2:15 a.m. Sunday at 2811 Cheswick Road. As officers were on their way to the scene, they were told a man had been taken to…
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