Fulton Daily News

Residents of Hannibal are encouraged to clean up their lawns this weekend. Any leaves, stray branches, brush, cuttings or anything that grows are welcome to be bagged and placed curbside. Any color garbage bags are acceptable. On May 6 crews will be out picking up the bags free of charge.

Jake Davenport will be touring this summer as a drummer with Ben Gallaher and his band of Nashville. He is a graduate of G. Ray Bodley High School. The band’s tour gets under way on May 3.

The college and board is working to reduce expenditures of its $32.36 million operating budget by approximately $1.5 million before the end of the fiscal year on August 31, 2013, to help make up for an unexpected 5 percent enrollment decrease.

At the recent Common Council meeting, it was announced that Senator Patty Ritchie was able to obtain $200,000 to put towards the Lake Neatahwanta cleanup effort. The money will be split evenly between the city of Fulton and town of Granby. Once the lake is clean, the goal is for families to use it again.

The family of Patricia Gryczka gathered in Onondaga County Court on Friday before Judge Anthony Aloi for the sentencing of Larry Frank of Phoenix. “[Frank] deserves every second of the 25 to life sentence you are about to impose on him,” the prosecutor told Judge Aloi. “Basically, he committed a brutal murder over $2,500.”

A Phoenix man was sentenced to the maximum for killing his sister-in-law. Based on his admission to second-degree murder, Larry Frank was sentenced today (April 26) to the maximum – 25 years to life behind bars. “Your conduct on that evening can only be described as brutal, callous, and inhumane,” Judge Anthony Aloi told him in court today.

It all started with a vintage Coca-Cola cooler from the 1920s. Rosalie Frataccia’s boyfriend, Jason Raymond, brought the cooler home and the couple eventually sold it to a man who drove all the way from Connecticut to Fulton to retrieve it. After this, Frataccia realized she could create a business out of the treasures she and Raymond had been collecting. And, Trash 2 Treasures was born.