What the Q?

Humorous, bizarre and strange stories involving Quincy, Massachusetts and which those in the know refer to as “The Q”.

Latest Posts from “What the Q?”

Quincy Post Nor’easter Recap

by Sam Clemens | Mar 14, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

Things returned to some semblance of normality after yesterday’s third Nor’easter in twelve days. For example, City Hall was yet again found to be thoroughly plowed …

Quincy City Hall site of needle trafficking?

by Eric Blair | Mar 10, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

<![CDATA[ – News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News. Quincy City Hall site of needle trafficking? While out and about on the increasingly mean streets and walkways of Quincy, intrepid Quincy Quarry News personnel happened up a pile of needles piled up behind Quincy’s City Hall today. That and a tagged utility locker. Quincy Quarry […]

Quincy Double Dipper’s pension gets dipped

by Nancy Drue | Feb 21, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. The Double Dipper’s pension gets dipped. The Federal court is garnishing now former Quincy police Lieutenant Tom Corliss’ pension to recover the money he defrauded from both the City of Quincy as well as the underlying private parties who paid Corliss […]

State spends $100,000 to build a small new bathroom in transportation building

by Carl Woodward | Feb 20, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News. State spends $100,000 to build a small new bathroom in the state transportation building headquarters. The bathroom project was put on a fast track to be built using one of the MBTA’s “on-call construction services” contracts which are normally reserved for emergency or other […]

Quincy Center Traffic Light Now More Busted – Part II of a New Continuing Series

by Site Administrator | Feb 16, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News. Quincy Center traffic light now more busted – Part II of a new continuing series. While recently out and about shortly after sunrise on the normally increasingly mean streets of Quincy, Quincy Quarry News personnel happened upon a clean-up as opposed to yet another cover-up. As Quarry […]

Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: A Local Thaw in Breaking Badly Bad News©

by Jon Swift | Feb 16, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

<![CDATA[ – News about Quincy covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: A Local Thaw in Breaking Badly Bad News© Things continue to warm up in the Q after a few weeks of mostly turned out to be cold news tips. Speaking of cold, while revenge is best served […]

Quincy actually has a wintertime pothole repair team!

by Sam Clemens | Feb 13, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Quincy actually has a wintertime pothole repair team. Whoddathunk? Seriously, Quincy Quarry must thus honor its balanced and fair coverage© reportorial policy by presenting this surprising as well as wholly unexpected state of affairs. How did the Quarry come to know of this pothole […]

Quincy Center Traffic Light Now More Busted – Part I of a new continuing series?

by Bill Spear | Feb 12, 2018 | Behind the Qurtain, Featured Articles

<![CDATA[ – News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Quincy Center traffic light now more busted. Part I of yet another Quincy Quarry continuing series of exposés? While out and about on the ever-increasingly mean streets of Quincy somewhat recently, Quincy Quarry news personal spotted that a long broken Quincy Center traffic […]