The budget cuts enacted earlier this year in Hannibal became real Wednesday when school opened for another year. The changes forced on the district caused complaints when people saw what those cuts meant.
The problem areas included a French class taught via distance learning and the half-day closing of the libraries in the Kenney Middle School and Fairley Elementary School.
The campaign for Congress heads into the final days of the opening round with incumbent Democrat Bill Owens sitting on the largest pile of money.
Campaign filings made public this week show Owens with nearly $1.2 million on hand. Owens has spent $1.6 million on his reelection so far.
“If I could bring my Mom back from Heaven,” Shirley Slate began, reading from her very first essay, a prayer for the return from Heaven for her mother for one more day.
“I just want to hold her one more time,” she said.
That Shirley Slate could read or write that essay was remarkable. At age 52, she’s learning to read and write and aiming to get her GED.
See video of her touching essay, inside.
The first game on Fulton’s brand new turf field was a difficult one.
Indian River scored the first 22 points of the game and literally ran away from the Red Raiders, 55-23.
See a full gallery of photos from the game inside.
Fulton’s varsity boys soccer team lost its opening game, 1-0, to East Syracuse-Minoa on Friday despite having control of the ball for much of the contest.
Saturday, the Red Raider boys were on their way to doing that all over again before pulling out a win.
See a full gallery of photos from the game, inside.
Sue Colussy retired this week from Catholic Charities’ Catholic Legal Services in Atlanta. For a quarter century, the Oswego County native’s been building a non-profit legal service for the poor.
Nearly everything that is supposed to be ready for the opening of school in Fulton will be ready, officials say.
The district is in the midst of a pair of construction projects involving every building. Most of the work is saved for the summer break, putting crews on tight schedules to have work completed by the opening of school in September.
Starting next school year, teachers will be described by one of four phrases. The right phrase could lead to tenure, promotion and more money. The wrong phrase could lead to a denial of tenure or even dismissal.
Fulton City School District personnel administrator Tom Greer gave the Board of Education a look at the new rules for performance reviews, which became law in June as part of several changes made by the state to qualify for federal funds in the competitive Race To The Top grant program.
Tommy Merritt wasn’t on the street for very long.
Hours after a judge reduced his bail on a charge of having sexual contact with a child younger than 13, Fulton Police re-arrested him overnight on a new child sex charge.
Take a visual tour of the proposed new logo for Fulton’s sports teams and high school. See it as its designers saw it. We’ll break down the new logo, element by element, a process which reveals some of the story of the Iroquois in Fulton and shows how the designers want to convey an image of strength, pride and intelligence.
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