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December 9, 2021 | By Steve Eighinger
QUINCY — The Quincy Park District Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a $7.17 million fiscal 2022 budget Wednesday night. The figure represents a decrease of just under $185,000 from the FY 2021 budget and reflects a deficit of about $1.32 million, the result of planned spending of revenues and fund reserves to pay for capital…
Read Full Article December 8, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Kay Simpson spent $4,700 this summer to have an above-ground pool installed in the backyard of her home near Mill Creek. The installation of the pool was so poor that she recently learned it would take an additional $3,600 in repairs to make it useful. “I want the pool taken down, taken out…
Read Full Article December 7, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Shari Ray, comptroller for the City of Quincy, wants to know what aldermen want to do with extra money collected during Fiscal Year 2022 before work on the Fiscal Year 2023 budget begins. Ray explained during a Finance Committee meeting held before Monday’s regularly scheduled City Council meeting how the city has an…
Read Full Article December 7, 2021 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
Should Congressman Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville) win re-election in 2022, he will represent Illinois’ 15th District, which will include West-Central Illinois. Davis sat down with MRN Publisher/GM J. Robert Gough to discuss redistricting, re-election and the state of politics in Illinois and Washington D.C. Muddy River News This Week is furnished by Harvey’s.
Read Full Article December 6, 2021 | By Carolyn Freas Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
(This is the final part 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.) Read Part 1: Prosperous Quincy of 1899 Read Part 2: Christmas is Coming to Quincy Read Part 3: The Cry of Fire…
Read Full Article December 6, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The City of Quincy is asking for the submission of sealed proposals for the purchase and redevelopment of the 17 parcels of property, including the site of the former Newcomb Hotel at 400 Maine. All of the properties are vacant lots. Chuck Bevelheimer, director of planning and development for the city, said most…
Read Full Article December 5, 2021 | By Carolyn Freas Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
(This is the fifth 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.) Read Part 1: Prosperous Quincy of 1899 Read Part 2: Christmas is Coming to Quincy Read Part 3: The Cry of Fire Read…
Read Full Article December 4, 2021 | By Carolyn Freas Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
(This is the fourth 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.) Read Part 1: Prosperous Quincy of 1899 Read Part 2: Christmas is Coming to Quincy Read Part 3: The Cry of Fire All…
Read Full Article December 4, 2021 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
Bob Gough talks to the Adams County Board Chairman. Muddy River News This Week is furnished by Harvey’s.
Read Full Article December 3, 2021 | By Carolyn Freas Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
Read Part 1: Prosperous Quincy of 1899 Read Part 2: Christmas is Coming to Quincy It was December 22nd and the girls in Sister Theotima’s nativity scene readied for their dress rehearsal. It was 2:30 in the afternoon. Sister Theotima motioned to her girls that it was time to go backstage to get dressed for…
Read Full Article December 3, 2021 | By Muddy River News
QUINCY — Don’t panic, Quincy. You can still get your vanilla lattes, pumpkin spice lattes and iced white chocolate mochas from Starbucks. You just can’t get them from the store at 3115 Broadway for a few days. The store was closed Friday. The website for the 3115 Broadway location shows the store is closed through…
Read Full Article December 3, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — After a three-day trial, an Adams County jury ruled Wednesday that Blick’s Construction, the contractor that demolished buildings to make way for the new county jail, was entitled to $117,021 for additional work it finished in 2017. Blick’s filed the suit in April 2018. The county accepted in January 2017 a bid by…
Read Full Article December 2, 2021 | By Carolyn Freas Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
(This is the second 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.) Read Part 1: Prosperous Quincy of 1899 The morning of Dec. 22 dawned clear and cold. With just three days to go until…
Read Full Article December 1, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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…
Read Full Article The St. Francis School fire of 1899: Quincy was prosperous, growing and looking forward to Christmas
December 1, 2021 | By Carolyn Freas Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
(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,…
Read Full Article November 30, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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…
Read Full Article November 30, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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.…
Read Full Article November 29, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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…
Read Full Article November 29, 2021 | By Muddy River News
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…
Read Full Article November 29, 2021 | By James A. Rapp
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…
Read Full Article November 29, 2021 | By Muddy River News
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.
Read Full Article November 28, 2021 | By Martha Brune Rapp, Muddy River News Contributor
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…
Read Full Article November 27, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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…
Read Full Article November 26, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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…
Read Full Article November 25, 2021 | By Muddy River News
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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