Today's News

It's funny how sometimes things never seem to work out the way I've planned but almost always end up better.

Like everyone in the area I had paid strict attention to the weather reports all week. I monitored each report on television, radio and the Internet. It was going to be bone-chilling cold and I was thinking all week that I was finally going to get the weekend I began longing for several months ago.

City of Quincy officials approved, on first reading, the Southeastern Power Administration-increased wholesale power rate change to customers of the Jim Woodruff Dam Project, of which Quincy is a member, by 72 percent.

The effective date of the increase was Sept. 2009, since Quincy is one of six preferred customers for the project that is impacted by the increase.

Several months ago city commissioners directed staff to prepare an ordinance that would lower cost adjustment as the SEPA increase is passed along to the customers.

An anonymous tip led Quincy police officers to a home on South Shadow Street and the arrest of two Quincy men.  

Benny Mason, 28, has been charged with one count each of burglary of a dwelling and criminal mischief. Ed Paris, 30, has been charged with one count of burglary of a dwelling.

According to a report released by the Quincy Police Department, the tipster saw two men kick in the back door in and called police. Officers arrived at the home a few minutes after the call was made at approximately 9:30 p.m.

Lt. Jim Corder of the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office, with approval from Sheriff Morris Young, last week engaged in one of the most humane acts that has occurred in Gadsden County in many years. He was the catalyst behind getting 50 homeless people from Gadsden and Leon counties a warm place to sleep. These people, many of whom fell on hard times because they lost their jobs due to a sluggish economy, would not have had a warm place to lay their heads had the temporary (5 days only) shelter not been open.