Hannibal school district leaders say they want to minimize the damage that they know next year’s budget will do to the school district.
Hannibal’s Board of Education met Monday night to begin figuring out how to put together the 2011-12 budget. It’s a good bet it will impose even more painful cutbacks on the district than this year’s budget did.
Quirk’s Players has picked its spring show, and it’s a Beauty. Also today: why dairy farming is a really hard job; a commentator says “be nice to your school”; and some advice for beating stress.
The Fulton City School District is on track to extend its energy-savings deal with Siemens, to save another $3 million on energy costs over the next 18 years.
Siemens is just wrapping up a project that covered 10 years and saved $2.6 million. The company is paid from the money it saves the district and guarantees the savings.
Will Oswego County’s top tourism draw be hurt by state budget cuts? Also in the news — the epidemic of gunfire in Syracuse claims a young life, scientists think the ol’ switcheroo might save lives, and the story of Abe Lincoln’s beard.
A Fulton man was the only person nabbed as police tested 15 city stores and bars, along with their customers, to see if they would sell alcohol to or buy alcohol for someone under 21 years old.
Salty food will be a little less salty from here on out. Your tax dollars paid for a Taliban warlord to sit at a negotiating table, except for one thing: The warlord was a fake. The money, sadly, was real; and Fort Drum is safe from budget cuts. Those are among the stories from elsewhere that are worth reading today.
The public vote on next year’s school budget is more than half a year away, but the Fulton City School District is gearing up to begin building a budget that officials admit will probably be more difficult than the last one.
“It’s gonna be worse; that shouldn’t be a surprise,” said board President Robbin Griffin.
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