St. Francis School
QUINCY — Enrollment for Quincy’s four Catholic elementary schools — Blessed Sacrament, St. Dominic, St. Francis and St. Peter — is open for the 2025-26 school year. Each school offers preschool through eighth grade classroom in a faith-based, family environment focused on providing high-quality education. The Quincy Catholic Elementary Schools (QCES) Foundation has opened its…
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QUINCY — Julie Radel has been selected to be the principal at St. Francis Solanus School for the 2022-23 school year. Lori Shepard, who retired as principal after 43 years in Catholic education, will be Radel’s mentor for the first semester of the school year. Radel was hired at St. Francis Solanus in 2017 to…
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QUINCY — Two Quincy parochial grade schools are looking for new principals for the 2022-23 school year. Lori Shepard announced her resignation as the principal of St. Francis Solanus School in a March 14 letter. She taught art and religion and was the campus minister at Quincy Notre Dame for 18 years, then served as…
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Muddy River News has completed its publication of the series of essays on the St. Francis School Fire of 1899. The fire resulted in the deaths of 12 girls buried at St. Boniface Cemetery. The tragedy marked one of the saddest chapters of the Quincy community’s history. St. Francis Solanus Parish has a “12…
Read Full Article (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…
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(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…
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(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…
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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 — Father Steven Arisman, pastor at St. Francis Solanus Church, vividly remembers the first time he realized something needed to be done about traffic on a stretch of College Street that runs from 17th to 18th Street between the church and the grade school. “There was one lady who (turned west off 18th Street),…
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