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QUINCY — Alvin Palmer always has believed he’s a good person. Now, after nearly 20 years of battles with the police, courts, alcohol and drugs, Palmer says he’s simply ready to make better choices. “I’ve learned to love more,” he said after Wednesday’s graduation ceremony for the RISE program, administered by the Adams County Probation…
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The St. Francis School fire of 1899: Quincy was prosperous, growing and looking forward to Christmas
(This is the first of six stories about the St. Francis School fire in December 1899, when 12 girls burned to death in one of saddest chapters of the Quincy community’s history.) This story takes place 122 years ago, on Dec. 22, 1899. The event, which people still remember more than a century later,…
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QUINCY — Blessing Health System employees learned Tuesday they now have an additional option to maintain their employment after a federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for millions of health care workers in 10 states. About 17 million health care providers at facilities participating in the federal Medicare…
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QUINCY — A Springfield man pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon to charges of home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated criminal sexual assault and residential burglary. Bradley S. Yohn, 34, was arraigned in Adams County Circuit Court, where he waived a formal reading of his charges and made his plea before Judge Amy Lannerd.…
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QUINCY — A St. Louis man was sentenced to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to throwing a cat against a wall in 2018, recording it and sending the video to his wife. Trevor Moncrief, 35, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. He was living in Quincy when the…
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QUINCY – The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Monday the Quincy Memorial Bridge (U.S. 24) will open Tuesday. Normal traffic patterns will return to the Bayview Bridge and the Quincy Memorial Bridge, though lanes may be closed to remove traffic control devices. All lanes are scheduled to be open by the end of the week. The $7.25…
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Beginning Dec. 1, Muddy River News will present a series of stories about the St. Francis School fire in December 1899 when 12 girls burned to death in one of saddest chapters of the Quincy community’s history. This series is written by Carolyn Freas Rapp and dedicated to her mother-in-law, Lucille Middendorf Rapp, whose…
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The government watchdog group, Better Government Association, has updated its salary list for school districts across Illinois, with the latest information from 2019. For Quincy School District 172, salaries for 470 teachers and administrators are listed. Some, such as Carol Frericks, have left the district since 2019.
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Situated in the Iowa River valley 25 miles northwest of Iowa City, the seven Amana Colonies are more than just another National Historic Landmark. Occupying 26,000 acres of rolling farmland, forests, and vineyards, Amana is, perhaps, the world’s geographically-largest church. Amana (which means “remain true” and is taken from the Bible’s Song of Solomon) was…
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QUINCY — Looking for an artificial Christmas tree for the holidays? Good luck. Worldwide supply-chain bottlenecks and shipping delays are wreaking inventory havoc for big box stores, resulting in a Christmas tree shortage. “All the artificial trees are sitting in a harbor off the coast of California,” said Butch Augspurg, who along with his wife…
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QUINCY — Two old college friends have reunited in Quincy to open a restaurant specializing in lunch sandwiches, morning drinks and a welcoming atmosphere in the city’s southwest section. Even bigger plans are in the works for neighboring buildings on the northwest corner of Eighth and State. Caitlin Murray and Brian Stitt recently opened the…
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QUINCY — Jeff Scott believes enough is enough. Scott, one of the operators of the family owned Scottie’s Fun Spot at 8000 Broadway, said the business is cracking down on youth-related rowdyism and vandalism. Anyone under 18 years old must now be accompanied by a parent or guardian while on Fun Spot property. The only…
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QUINCY — The Quincy School Board had several reasons to be in a good mood when it met Tuesday night. It was the board’s last meeting before celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. It also heard a report from the finance committee that had long-time board member Carol Nichols gushing, The finance committee, which met Monday, heard…
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QUINCY – The work that went into adjusting the City of Quincy’s ward boundaries was all for naught. A proposed map that would’ve slightly tweaked the boundaries, with Wards 2, 4 and 5 being the most impacted, was defeated at Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting. 2020 Census figures revealed Quincy’s population had dropped from…
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QUINCY — A court appearance scheduled for Monday in the civil case of 2×4’s for Hope vs. Mark and Chris Lawrence was postponed. The two parties and their attorneys will meet with Judge Scott Larson in a case management conference at 10 a.m. Dec. 13. The parties and their representatives meet with the judge to…
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PITTSFIELD, Ill. — Pike County Clerk Natalie Roseberry is tired of working around information technology problems in her office, so she reached out to Adams County for a solution. The counties are working on a proposal for an intergovernmental agreement giving Adams County the authority to oversee IT infrastructure and be the administrator of services…
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MRN Publisher/GM Bob Gough talks with Adams County State’s Attorney Gary Farha. Muddy River News This Week Furnished by Harvey’s.
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MRN Publisher/GM Bob Gough talks to Monty Doyle and Catie Doyle of Doyle Equipment Manufacturing about the company’s 70 year old family business that is four generations strong. MRN Business Spotlight is sponsored by Cason, Huff and Schleuter Insurance.
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QUINCY — Chuck Scholz fondly remembers most of his time as Quincy’s mayor from 1993 to 2005. He doesn’t hesitate, however, when asked which day was his worst. Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1996. 5:02 p.m. Twenty-five years ago today. United Express Flight 5925, a Beechcraft 1900 twin turboprop plane, collided as it tried to land with…
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QUINCY – A rough draft for a potential Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation (QRDC) board of directors had certain restrictions when it was presented to the Riverfront Master Plan Steering Committee’s Governance Plan Subcommittee meeting Wednesday evening. Under the proposal put forth by Quincy Mayor Mike Troup, the board would’ve had five directors: One from the…
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Quincy Mayor Mike Troup used his monthly luncheon session Wednesday to discuss housing and raise money for the United Way of Adams County. Troup said he hopes to have a proposal before the Quincy City Council in December that would provide an incentive to rental property owners to rehabilitate areas that need improvement. “I think…
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QUINCY – Quincy went from zero to two axe throwing spots faster than you can let your hatchet fly into a piece of plywood. Following Joker’s Lounge bringing in the trendy recreational activity where people can release their frustrations with a few cocktails and flinging sharp objects, Quincy Axe Company will be making its debut…
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QUINCY — Rodney Hart and his wife Sheryl moved Second String Music from Eighth and Washington to the first floor of the Dodd Building on the northeast corner of Fifth and Maine in July 2012. Hart said the building was in “rough shape” when they bought the entire building a year later. “We took a…
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QUINCY — As Judge Tad Brenner read Tuesday afternoon the details of one count of alleged aggravated criminal sexual assault committed Nov. 9, Bradley S. Yohn interrupted to say, “You’ve got the wrong person, your honor.” And near the end of his first appearance in Adams County Circuit Court, Yohn blurted out, “Kill me now,…
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Missouri Farm Bureau, with MFA Incorporated, MFA Oil Company, and Doyle Equipment Manufacturing have announced they have filed a joint lawsuit challenging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) emergency rule vaccine mandate. The emergency temporary standard (ETS) from OSHA mandates that U.S. workers at companies with 100 or more employees must be vaccinated or…
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