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muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
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muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
QUINCY — Gabriel VanderMaiden, whose quick actions helped save the lives of a police officer and a civilian 15 months ago, was named the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year on April 4 during the Quincy Service Club luncheon. He learned four days later his services were no longer needed by the Quincy Police Department (QPD).
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muddyriversports.com | David Adam
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) published a letter on Tuesday to state representatives explaining its decision to allow transgender participation in athletics. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 5 intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
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muddyriversports.com | David Adam
QHSQNDQuincySports SpotlightTop Stories Quincy Notre Dame coach Eric Orne waves home Caitlin Bunte after Joselyn Boyer's double during Wednesday night's softball game at Avenue of Lights Field. | David Adam Wednesday’s 6-2 victory over Quincy High School moved the Quincy Notre Dame girls softball team one step closer to a sixth consecutive 20-victory season. Notre Dame has outscored Quincy 87-18 during that 11-game stretch.
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muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
In the photos below from left are Taylor and Alex Rost, Alyssa and Taylor Moore, Amanda Mangan and David Ortega and Brenna and Trenton Childs, who all had their twins during the week of April 7 at Blessing Hospital. | Photo courtesy of Blessing Hospital QUINCY — Four families enjoyed the births of twins at Blessed Beginnings, the birth center at Blessing Hospital, during the week of April 7.
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1 week ago | 
muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
QUINCY — Questions were asked Tuesday night about staffing, playing surfaces, the amount of money possibly generated and the types of sports that could be played at a proposed indoor sports complex in Quincy. However, the biggest question about a facility that could cost at least $30 million is: Who’s going to pay for it? Several ideas were tossed out during the public presentation of a feasibility study in City Council chambers.
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1 week ago | 
muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
QUINCY — To loan or transfer? That was the question posed by Alderman Mike Rein (R-5) during Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting regarding how the city plans to borrow from the city’s $6 million reserve fund to pay for a water main replacement project on Broadway from 24th to 30th Street. An ordinance that would transfer $4 million in unbudgeted general funds to the water and sewer fund got its first reading Monday night.
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1 week ago | 
muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
BusinessIllinoisNoteworthyQuincyTop Stories Three entities have been working on a feasibility study for a sports complex in Quincy since May 2024 — ARCO National, a construction company from Richmond Heights, Mo.; Hastings and Chivetta, an architecture, planning and interior design firm out of St. Louis; and The Sports Facilities Companies, a Clearwater, Fla., company which helps plan, fund, develop or operate sports, recreation, entertainment and fitness centers.
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1 week ago | 
muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
IllinoisNoteworthyQuincyTop Stories A family sits on the steps of a home at 508 N. Seventh in Quincy in October 2023 after a red placard had been posted by city officials on the front of the home, deeming it unsafe for human inhabitation. Among the code violations found were live sewage in the basement, no working furnace, ground floor windows and doors without locks and dangeous stairs to the basement.
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1 week ago | 
muddyrivernews.com | David Adam
QUINCY — United Alloy announced 18 months ago it had acquired land in Quincy to construct a 200,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility on Ellington Road and create at least 100 new jobs for Quincy. The plan was for United Alloy to break ground by 2025. Those plans changed dramatically this week.
