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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council approved an agreement Tuesday night that will help kickstart activity at the site where Kmart was once one of the city’s top big box retailers. So which retailer will call the northeast corner of 36th and Broadway home? We’ll have to wait a couple of months to find out.…
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QUINCY — The trial of the former owner of the Barn nightclub, who faces one count of aggravated battery in connection to a March 2020 incident involving a former Quincy University student, has been delayed once again, this time until July. Steven Homan, who pled not guilty to the charge on May 12, 2021, appeared…
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Dear MRN: I recently saw one of the city’s garbage totes in my neighborhood with several bags of garbage that did not fit into the tote. Will the city still pick up all of those bags? Kevin McClean, director of Central Services, says he would tell employees in his department not to pick up the…
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QUINCY — Days after receiving a $1,252,041 grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to help expand local broadband access, Adams Telephone Cooperative in Golden informed customers it was declining a DCEO grant of more than $4.9 million. Each grant was to help broadband access to unserved homes and businesses in Adams…
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J. Robert Gough talks to the man who is leading the charge to re-open Quincy’s local dirt track as Quincy Raceways becomes Adams County Speedway. Muddy River News is furnished by Harvey’s.
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QUINCY — At approximately 9:30 a.m. Saturday, deputies with the Adams County Sheriff’s Department made an additional arrest in reference to an ongoing homicide investigation that occurred in the Gross Gables subdivision on Thursday. Devere S. Gholston, 27, was arrested for an outstanding Adams County arrest warrant for first degree murder (3 counts), residential burglary…
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QUINCY — The qualifications for a candidate to be Quincy’s next chief of police now are much less stringent. The job was posted earlier this month on the Illinois Police Chief Association website. However, the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners — Barry Cheyne, Steve Meckes and Kerry Anders — voted Friday during a special…
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QUINCY — A 15-year-old boy is being held in the Adams County Juvenile Detention Center, but the Adams County State’s Attorney’s office wants him tried as an adult. First Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Eyler appeared in court on behalf of the prosecution Friday afternoon as the teenage defendant made his first appearance in Juvenile Court.…
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An Illinois appellate court dismissed Governor J.B. Pritzker’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling against his mask mandate in schools, calling the request “moot” after a legislative committee suspended the requirement’s renewal. On Thursday, the Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court rejected the appeal, noting that the state’s department of public health on Feb. 14 had…
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MOUNT STERLING — Facing the man found guilty of murdering her daughter was nerve-wracking for Carolyn Woodward. “I’m not good at being the center of attention,” she said. Woodward read her victim impact statement before Thursday morning’s sentencing of John Michael Dean, who was found guilty Dec. 16 by a Brown County jury of shooting…
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UPDATED: Adams County Sheriff's Department arrests juvenile in connection with death north of Quincy
QUINCY — The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 15-year-old male juvenile in connection with the death of an elderly man. Just after 7 a.m. Thursday, a deputy with the Adams County Sheriff’s Department observed what was described as “suspicious circumstances” at a residence in the Gross Gables subdivision on the north side of…
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QUINCY — The John Wood Community College Board heard a report on progress being made on the Workforce Development Center expansion during its Wednesday night meeting. The Workforce Development Center (WDC) expansion project is assisted with a federal grant that was awarded to JWCC in June 2021. It’s a $6.1 million project with 50 percent…
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Hannibal City Hall will close at noon today. Quincy Public and Parochial Schools Quincy University classes remote, all extracurricular activities are postponed. Hannibal Public Schools and Holy Family School Hannibal Head Start Dallas City Elementary Illini West Carthage Elementary Camp Point Central Hamilton Dallas City Elementary Brown County Schools Pleasant Hill Mendon Unity Griggsville Perry…
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QUINCY — The cases for Bradley Yohn and Karen Blackledge remain on the March 7 jury docket, though DNA and fingerprint evidence yet to arrive from the state crime lab could potentially delay their jury trials. Blackledge and Yohn both made appearances in Adams County Circuit Court on Tuesday morning. When Judge Amy Lannerd asked…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board approved moving more than $920,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds at its meeting Tuesday night. The approved funding, provided by the federal government for COVID relief, was vetted by Bellwether, a consulting firm based out of Normal hired by the county to ensure all of the guidelines and…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup’s proposal for Jason Finney appointed to the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners ran into a snag during Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting. Troup said in a Friday interview that Kerry Anders’ term expired at the end of January. Anders said in a Sunday interview he wants to fulfill…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup plans to appoint former 3rd Ward alderman Jason Finney to the city’s Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, effective immediately for a three-year term, at Monday’s City Council meeting. Kerry Anders, who Finney would replace on the committee, isn’t quite ready to step aside. Troup said in a Friday…
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QUINCY — Cameron Vaughan has been in the news quite often in the past month since she decided to speak out about Judge Robert Adrian’s reversal of his decision to find Drew Clinton guilty of one count of criminal sexual assault. Vaughan, who turns 17 in March, is in her final year as a student…
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QUINCY — A crowd of approximately 60 to 70 people marched in Washington Park on Saturday afternoon to publicly protest Judge Robert Adrian’s reversal of a ruling in a criminal sexual assault case. Armed with signs and wearing T-shirts that read “#standwithcammy,” the protesters marched around Washington Park chanting, “No Faith in Adrian,” “Stand With…
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QUINCY — Drew Schnack thought Wednesday’s interview of 16-year-old Cameron Vaughan of Quincy on the syndicated “Dr. Phil” talk show was “well done.” However, the Quincy attorney representing 18-year-old Drew Clinton, who was found guilty in October of criminal sexual assault but released in January after an Adams County judge reversed his verdict, had a…
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Executive director Megan Duesterhaus talks about the types of services that QUANADA (Quincy Area Network Against Domestic Abuse) offers, what people should do if they believe they are a victim of sexual or domestic abuse and her thoughts about the recent decision by Judge Robert Adrian to reverse a ruling in a criminal sexual assault…
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is going to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to order Adams County Circuit Judge Robert Adrian to impose a new sentence to Drew Clinton. Raoul today filed a mandamus complaint and a motion for supervisory order asking the Court to direct Adrian to sentence Clinton “in accordance with state law.”…
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QUINCY — Quincy Park District officials discussed replacing the irrigation system at Westview Golf course during Wednesday night’s monthly meeting inside the organization’s Bonansinga Drive compound. David Morgan, director of golf for the district, detailed how a series of ongoing problems with the current system — coupled with its age — raise the need for…
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QUINCY — The progress made in the growth of the Quincy Children’s Museum brought Amy Peters to tears on Tuesday. As she read an announcement that the museum’s permanent location will be the former Quincy Paper Box building, 230 N. Third, Peters had to take a moment to avoid letting her emotions get the best…
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QUINCY — The national spotlight will once again shine on Quincy and the decision by a local judge to overturn a guilty verdict in a sexual assault case. Cameron Vaughan, the 16-year-old Quincy High School student who claimed she was raped by 18-year-old Drew Clinton last summer, will appear Wednesday on “Dr. Phil,” which airs…
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