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Summer Sips, Vol. 1 LORAINE, Ill. — For 151 years, Loraine was a dry township. A Quincyan’s nightmare. My thoughts were tumbleweeds and moonshine. Now, it wasn’t exactly THAT extreme, but there wasn’t anywhere to get your booze! Loraine is a quiet, small, close-knit community in northern Adams County just off Highway 336 and home…
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Ashley Conrad and Ron Kinscherf discuss a group trying to start a new school from scratch, then Ashley talks Furries! The Abbey, Utopia, Harvey’s Furniture, Instant Replay, Quincy Warehouse Bargains and The Liquor Booth bring you The Daily Muddy.
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup said the city has spent about $150,000 on outside consultants and $500,000 for an encryption key to regain access to the city’s information services systems. In other words, $500,000 in ransomware. In a news conference Tuesday morning, Troup gave a timeline of events that have taken place since the…
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QUINCY — About 50 people attended an informational meeting Monday night to hear about a new private school being started in Quincy. A nine-member board led the presentation of the vision of The Ulmus Academy. The board is made up of parents with concerns about today’s educational system and the lack of input and control…
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QUINCY — The City of Quincy will hold a news conference Tuesday morning to outline “emergency payments” to be made for “cyber security” and “cyber cryptocurrency and ransomware” negotiation services. Mayor Mike Troup was absent from Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting, but after aldermen voted on two resolutions, Director of Administrative Services Jeff Mays said…
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QUINCY — A Chicago attorney from a national law firm issued a statement Monday morning on behalf of the city of Quincy and the Quincy Public Library, saying the cause of the May 7 cyber attack on the city’s computer systems has not yet been determined. City employees have not received or sent emails on…
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QUINCY — A change Mayor Mike Troup wants to make in Quincy’s engineering, utilities and Central Services departments means bringing back a title the city hasn’t used in nearly 25 years. Aldermen tabled at last Monday’s meeting of the City Council an appointment by Troup of Steve Bange as engineering manager. They want to vote…
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QUINCY — The U.S. Attorney General has brought a civil action against Quincy attorney Don Schuering, asking for $961,000 in unpaid taxes from 2009-18. The complaint also calls for federal tax liens to be enforced against property — a residence and an office — Schuering owns. Schuering would be forced to file income tax returns…
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Lisa Orban of Indies United talks about working with independent authors, like Ron Kinscherf, and the world of publishing today. Cason, Huff and Schlueter sponsors the Muddy River News Business Spotlight.
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QUINCY — An assistant coach on Quincy Notre Dame’s girls basketball state championship team was arrested Thursday and is lodged in the Adams County Jail on a charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The Quincy Police Department began an investigation involving a possible inappropriate relationship between a coach/trainer and a 16-year-old Quincy juvenile. The juvenile…
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QUINCY — It’s probably easier to list all of the community activities Chuck Scholz hasn’t participated in and all of the awards he hasn’t been given. Scholz, 68, is best known for his three-term stint as the mayor of Quincy from 1993-2005, but he’s been a board member, trustee, chairman or volunteer for dozens of…
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MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — A Mount Sterling man recently was indicted on federal drug charges. Agents with the West Central Illinois Drug Task Force, in conjunction with a SWAT team with the Illinois State Police and sworn personnel from the Brown County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant on Feb. 1 at the rural Mount…
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QUINCY — A building on the northeast corner of Seventh and State, where three people died in a fire in 2008 and a man was convicted for setting the fire and murdering them, was ablaze again Wednesday night. Quincy Fire Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said the call came in at 5:48 p.m. Wednesday, and it quickly…
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QUINCY — When Judge Roger Thomson asked Bradley Yohn if he would be ready for the first day of his trial on June 21, Yohn replied, “Oh, yes sir, most definitely.” Yohn is defending himself Pro Se against charges of carjacking and home invasion in Adams County filed in November 2021. He appeared in Adams…
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Mark and Chris Lawrence are countersuing charity’s board of directors, claiming accusations are false. QUINCY — Mark Lawrence made his first appearance in Adams County Circuit Court on Wednesday morning after he was arrested on two theft charges following an indictment by an Adams County grand jury on May 12. Lawrence is charged with theft…
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Dear MRN, What’s going on near the corner of 18th and Koch’s Lane? The home on that corner finally got knocked down. Documents filed in the Adams County Recorder’s office show Niemann General Contracting, Inc., of Quincy bought the 2.2-acre property at 1700 Koch’s Lane from Raven Securities, Inc., of Belleville on March 24 for…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup says city officials are still investigating how and why the emails for city employees have been unavailable after they discovered a cyber attack on May 7, but he believes light is at the end of the tunnel. “I finally do, yeah,” Troup said after Monday’s City Council meeting. “I’m…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — A New London man has been charged with nine counts of property damage following a Saturday afternoon incident in downtown Hannibal. Jaymes D. Gilbert, 23, faces the charges following an action that allegedly occurred on Saturday. At about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, officers with the Hannibal Police Department responded to the 100 block of Broadway…
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Dear MRN, There is a hole in the alley behind the building where I work on Maine Street. It seems as if the hole has been there for a long time, but no work ever gets done. What’s going on? The alley in question connects Fifth Street and Sixth Street, and it is between Maine…
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QUINCY — Call it the “Target Effect.” Demolition of the former Lincoln-Douglas U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at 601 N. 36th started last week. EJB Real Estate LLC owns the property. Owner Eric Booth hopes to turn it into a multi-tenant commercial building — more commonly known as a strip mall. The news that the…
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QUINCY — The country has faced an unbelievable amount of product shortages since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 — toilet paper, appliances, furniture, computer chips, you name it. The latest shortage gaining national attention is baby formula, but this shortage isn’t completely pandemic related. The largest U.S. manufacturer of baby formula, Abbott…
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QUINCY — Jonathan Lewin declined the appointment as the chief of the Quincy Police Department, and the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners late Friday afternoon appointed Adam Yates to the position. Commissioner Barry Cheyne said in a press release that Lewin said “both personally and professionally, it was in his best interest to decline.”…
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Details will be provided following Wednesday night’s Quincy School Board meeting. QUINCY — The Quincy Federation of Teachers has approved a new multi-year labor contract with the Quincy School District. While Muddy River News has learned that the teachers will receive pay increases in each year of the deal, no official details have been released.…
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QUINCY — The wait for an answer from Jonathan Lewin is nearly over. Lewin, who received an offer May 2 from the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners to become the chief of the Quincy Police Department, told Muddy River News Thursday night in a text that he will “have a decision (Friday).” Lewin, 54,…
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The recently retired Quincy Police Chief talks about his career in law enforcement and the issues in finding his successor. Muddy River News This Week is furnished by Harvey’s.
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