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QUINCY – In an effort to advance education, support financial stability, and promote health, United Way of Adams County, Blessing Health System, and the Adams County Health Department have released the 2021 Adams County Community Needs Assessment. The assessment, which has been released every three years since 2001, guides the United Way’s Community Building Council…
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My love affair with music dates to the late summer/early fall of 1966. That means I am currently celebrating my 55th anniversary of appreciating the finer points of what it has meant to have enjoyed the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkel and hundreds of other groups and individual artists for more than half a…
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Barbara A Webster (71) 3200 N 12th for Failure to Reduce Speed to Avoid Accident at 3rd & Broadway. PTC Spencer D Littrel (24) 123 Teakwood for Failure to Reduce Speed to Avoid Accident at 100 Broadway. PTC Darren L Stephens (25) 620 S 10th for Failure to Reduce Speed to Avoid Accident at 24th & State. PTC …
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Shawndra Taylor had just 12 hours notice when the first truck canceled. In it, contained food to help prepare the 3,000 meals served each day in her school district in Eldon — including items she needed to make dinner for students. Her supplier, Kohl Wholesale in Quincy, Ill., was too short-staffed. Taylor, the district’s food services…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson announced Wednesday the state of Missouri has approved more than $1.8 million in grant assistance to 19 agencies across the state to investigate and prosecute crimes that victimized children. “Criminals who victimize children must be investigated, prosecuted, and brought to justice, no matter when they commit these heinous crimes,”…
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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois community colleges have a multi-billion dollar impact on the state’s economy and will be “integral in making a recovery from the pandemic an equitable one,” according a new report from the Northern Illinois University Center for Governmental Studies. The Illinois Community Colleges’ Economic Impacts and Student Employment Outcomes report said the indirect…
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CANTON, Mo. — Culver-Stockton College hopes to assist local students in obtaining a college degree with its Pell Promise program, to be piloted in the fall of 2022. It will provide qualifying full-time, undergraduate Pell Grant eligible students working toward their first four-year degree a tuition-free education by providing aid equal to full tuition costs…
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QUINCY — The numbers are growing, but local health care providers won’t disclose how many employees have terminated or suspended because they have refused to either receive the COVID-19 vaccine or subject themselves to regular testing. About 30 people gathered at the corner of 12th and Broadway around noon Wednesday carrying signs. They were receiving…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Brewing Company is celebrating its second birthday from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday with its third Makers Market. Sixth Street will closed between Maine and Hampshire. Twenty-five vendors will be selling furniture, clothing, accessories, food, apothecary, ceramics, art, clothing, books, candles, vintage upcycled wares and more. The Quincy Children’s Museum will…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Free Public Library is holding a book sale starting Thursday through Oct. 6. Sale hours are 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, The library is not open on Sunday. The sale will be self-service in the woman’s club room. Payment will be taken at…
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The Pike County (Ill.) Endowment Fund with the Community Foundation Serving West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri has an opportunity to grow its fund by up to $50,000 through a dollar-for-dollar matching donation challenge. Through the “Double Down for Pike County” effort, every gift made to the Pike County Endowment Fund by Dec. 31 will be…
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QUINCY — Eleven former and current employees of Blessing Health System and Quincy Medical Group who say they were suspended without pay or terminated from their jobs because they refused to receive COVID-19 vaccinations or refused to be tested regularly are part of a lawsuit filed Monday in Adams County Circuit Court. On behalf of…
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Daily Dirt for Sept. 29, 2021 Ideally, some day we might hear Touki Toussaint singing “Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga, ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga”. In the meantime, welcome to Vol. 82 of the Daily Dirt: 1. There’s little question the first line of a song can hook you. With that in mind, here are 10 of the most iconic opening lines…
Read Full Article Carl Wyckoff (43) Homeless, for Leaving the scene of accident, Improper use of registration, Operating uninsured motor vehicle, Expired driver’s license, No valid registeration at 4th and Broadway. NTA – 135 Donitta Betts, 46, Quincy for Adams County Warrant – FTA-Theft – Cash bond – 250
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — An exhibit of 103 original works by 57 artists living within a 50-mile radius of Hannibal is open to the public and runs through Oct. 30 at the Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main. The Hannibal Art Club’s 57th annual area artist exhibit and competition is called ORiGINALE. A variety of achievement,…
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QUINCY — The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County’s ghost tours of Woodland Cemetery, 1020 S. Fifth, will be offered throughout October. The walking event, scheduled on Saturdays plus Halloween night, will take you back into Quincy’s historic past. The tours will feature experienced guides who will lead you on two separate and entertaining tours through…
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BAYLIS, Ill. — John Wood Community College held its 18th annual Ag Alumni Association Livestock Judging Invitational on Sept. 17 at the JWCC Agricultural Education Center. The event was sponsored by ADM Animal Nutrition and Moorman’s ShowTec and hosted by JWCC Agriculture Alumni Association and Livestock Evaluation Club. Two-hundred and sixty students from 20 Illinois and Missouri high schools, FFA and…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Health Department will be administering booster doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning Sept. 28 through Oct. 7 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Ambiance, 5225 Koch’s Lane. The booster doses will be administered based on the updated interim guidance about Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Public Schools Foundation supported the expansion of the QPS Child and Family Mentor Program through a grant of $18,000 awarded in September. The grant was made possible by endowments within the foundation from the Norma Tushaus Circle of Investment fund and the Walden Family Circle of Investment fund. Kent Embree, Foundation executive…
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As I travel along streets and highways, I see these squares in the middle of the road. They always are the same size. They have nothing to do with filling a crack or a hole. What are these squares? Do they have something to do with aerial photo calibration? Maybe extraterrestrials left them? Jim Frankenhoff,…
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Daily Dirt for Sept. 28, 2021 I am not, nor have I ever been, a fan of the Eagles, but personal bias will never stand in the way of sharing news. Welcome to Vo. 81 of the Daily Dirt. 1. The Recording Industry Association of America has updated its list of the top-selling albums of all-time.…
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Early Tuesday morning, Hancock County deputies a made traffic stop that led to a methamphetamine related arrest. A sheriff’s deputy on patrol conducted a traffic stop on a 2005 Jeep for a traffic violation. The driver, Lisa R. Meyers, 45, of Keokuk, IA was found to have an active warrant for her arrest in Hancock…
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CHICAGO— The Illinois Municipal League (IML) elected officers and members to its Board of Directors at its Annual Business Meeting, held September 25, as a part of the 108th IML Annual Conference at the Hilton Chicago. The IML membership unanimously elected Decatur Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe to serve a one-year term as President. Also elected…
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