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QUINCY — Mayor Mike Troup met Thursday with members of the local hotel, motel and hospitality industry to answer questions about what had been labeled a $500,000 request for “hotel development.” The money, if approved by the Quincy City Council on Monday night, would utilize proceeds from the 1 percent food and beverage tax. Troup…
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MENDON, Ill. — Country music star Granger Smith and his alter ego Earl Dibbles Jr. will take the grandstand stage on July 30 during the Adams County Fair. The fair board announced Thursday the main grandstand entertainers for its 80th annual event. As a Nashville recording artist, Smith broke onto the national scene with “Remington,”…
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QUINCY — The finance committee for the Quincy Park Board met Wednesday night to discuss how to come up with $2.5 million and $3 million to pay for a new irrigation system at Westview Golf Course. John Frankenhoff, chairman of the finance committee, said commissioners are considering many options. He doesn’t believe a referendum is…
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QUINCY – Thomas A. Oakley, who helped grow Quincy Media, Inc., into the 13th largest media company in the country, and for nearly seven decades was a driving force for economic development in West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri, died Wednesday at his home in Quincy. He was 89. “A mighty oak has fallen, that’s for…
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QUINCY — The moment when Caroline Redenius finally held her brother’s dog tag was overwhelming. “It doesn’t seem real to me,” she said. “I can’t identify with it. Isn’t that odd?” Redenius and her sister, Beverly Warning, were in Smith Hall on the Illinois Veterans Home campus Wednesday morning for a ceremony during which they…
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QUINCY — A Quincy woman speaking to the Quincy City Council at Monday’s meeting shed light on an increasing number of canceled Cape Air flights at Quincy Regional Airport. Whitney Mintert addressed aldermen during the public forum portion of the meeting. During her allotted three minutes, Mintert said she and her husband, Michael Joyce, moved…
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QUINCY — Quincy Police Chief Rob Copley said his department is “drowning” and needs to hire 10 more officers during a Monday meeting in City Council chambers as aldermen reviewed the city’s proposed 2022-23 budget. Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said the fire department is proposing a $12.9 million spending plan, a 5.48 percent increase over the…
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QUINCY — Aldermen voted Monday night to authorize another $250,000 for the Quincy Workforce Relocation Assistance Program (Q-WRAP), but it was clear some aldermen aren’t convinced of the program’s effectiveness. The program aims to incentivize out-of-town employees to move to Quincy by offering $5,000 in property tax relief for those buying a house or $3,500…
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Rebel Pig owner Doug Dry talks about his Palmyra, Mo. restaurant and how to make good barbecue. Business Spotlight is sponsored by Cason, Huff and Schlueter Insurance.
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QUINCY — Two of the three finalists for the position of Quincy’s chief of police already are employed by the Quincy Police Department. An email sent Saturday night to local media by Barry Cheyne, one of three members of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, revealed the finalists selected after a two-month search. They are:…
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QUINCY – RiverFest Music Festival is moving from Fort Madison, Iowa, to Quincy this summer and will be held August 4-6. The Fort Madison riverfront is under construction, and RiverFest organizers made the decision to move the event down the Mississippi. Riverfest has been a staple of the Fort Madison community for 30 years. The…
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QUINCY — Quincy Optimist Club Derby officials are taking the event to a new — and important — level. Once known as the Soap Box Derby, organizers Ray Wilson and Aiden McDonnell are in the process of helping coordinate an exercise with local grade schoolers that not only introduces them to racing but accents science, technology…
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QUINCY — The Illinois Supreme Court’s recent decision to reject the re-sentencing of a local criminal sexual assault case hasn’t deterred a local grassroots organization. “Stand With Cammy” held a peaceful protest during the noon hour Thursday in downtown Quincy in support of Cameron Vaughan. The Quincy teenager spoke out against Drew Clinton, who was…
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From the Quincy Catholic Elementary School Leadership Team: The Quincy Catholic Elementary School Leadership Team appreciated the opportunity to share our proposal of a shared vision for the future of our Catholic Schools, and the feedback we received will be extremely beneficial as we continue through this journey. Two of the themes we heard during…
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QUINCY — As the managing broker and owner of Bower & Associates Realtors, Inc., Carol Shaffer’s primary job is to help people buy and sell real estate. However, when the building once known as the Forum Show Palace and Winter’s West Wing, along with two other properties at 415-419 Hampshire, was available to buy, Shaffer…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup announced that Quincy Township Supervisor Cindy Brink is retiring at the end of the month. Brink, 58, won her third term in the office in April 2021, defeating Democrat Bill Burns. Since she will be leaving with three years remaining, there will be an appointment to fill the position,…
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A Quincy woman whose 2020 traffic crash resulted in the deaths of four people, will not stand trial in April after all. The Adams County State’s Attorney’s office appealed a Friday decision by Judge Amy Lannerd to dismiss the driving under the influence charge against Natasha McBride. In court Monday afternoon, the case was removed…
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Includes direct checks to Illinoisans, expands on Pritzker proposal by $800 million SPRINGFIELD – Democrats in the Illinois Senate have announced a $1.8 billion package of mostly temporary tax relief proposals that they hope to include in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget as the legislative session enters its final week. The package, rolled out…
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Just after 10 p.m. Saturday, a Quincy Police officer pulled over a 1999 Oldsmobile traveling west on Maine near Eighth Street after the officer observed a traffic violation. The officer pulled over the car at Eighth and York and the driver was Easton Glaves, 18, of 1023 Ohio, Quincy. During the search, officers initially found…
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QUINCY — Out of difficulties grow miracles. That quote from French philosopher Jean de la Bruyere might best sum up the creation of Smiles from Myles, a local program that donates new toys to patients for local hospitals and clinics. Doctors in early fall of 2020 diagnosed Courtney and Brandon Grant’s son, Myles, with hemophagocytic…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Catholic School Education Leadership team held its meetings at the four Quincy parishes with K-8 schools to look at the future of the parochial school system. The plan, announced at meetings at each of the four Catholic Parishes with schools over the weekend, calls for a a new administrative board overseeing…
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QUINCY — A woman who was part of a team that beat and sexually assaulted a woman who ended up dying will get 40 years in prison for her part in the crime. Karen Blackledge entered a guilty plea Friday afternoon in Adams County Circuit Court to two counts, one of home invasion and one…
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Andrew Smith and Ray Weast talk about the new and improved R&R Golf and Smith’s purchase of the nearly 29 year old family business. Muddy River News Business Spotlight it sponsored by Cason, Huff and Schlueter Insurance.
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The much-delayed trial of a Quincy man involving the death of an infant girl is now set for July. Travis Wiley, 34, faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery in the Jan. 22, 2018, death of an infant girl. He is accused of shaking the infant on Jan. 20, 2018,…
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Dear MRN, I drive down 24th Street and have noticed a lot of construction activity on the west side of the street at 24th and Lind. What is happening? Is it retail? What is happening at the old Deters Dairy building on North 24th behind the Ladies of Charity? I notice construction going on, and…
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