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Huge Turnout Leads to Approval of Fulton School Budget
A big turnout of voters provided a big margin of victory for Fulton’s school budget proposal.
The budget passed, 954 to 608.
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Final Vote Today on Fulton Schools Budget
Fulton voters go back to the polls today to decide the fate of the school’s budget for the 2010-11 year.
They’ll decide a $60.7 million budget. It’s about $132,000 smaller than the budget voters defeated by just 7 votes in May. It raises the tax levy 1.79%.
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Superintendent Defends Decision to Eliminate JV Sports in Hannibal
Hannibal’s Superintendent of Schools delivered a long and detailed answer to a simple question: Will Hannibal have JV sports this fall? The short answer is “no”, but the full answer involves balancing the district’s policies and goals against its shrinking resources. Mike DiFabio invited his audience to walk a mile in his shoes and see how he made a difficult decision.
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Hannibal Native Musa Named Fairley Elementary Principal
The new Principal of Hannibal’s Fairley Elementary School knows the school well. He used to be a teacher there. He used to be a student there.
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New Art Brightens Fulton Junior High
From frequent contributor Amy Maxam at Fulton Junior High comes the photo above and a story about some new artwork gracing the junior high library. Click in for the story and another photo.
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Parent Criticizes Chaperones for Hannibal Senior Trip after Some Students are Not Evacuated During Tornado Watch
Chaperones on a Hannibal senior class trip to an Ohio amusement park say they were drawing up plans for dealing with a future emergency even as they were riding out a tornado watch in the basement of a resort hotel that didn’t appear to have much of a plan of its own.
But the parent of one student says she wants a written apology from the chaperones for leaving her son and several other students in their rooms during the tornado watch, when nearly the entire hotel had been evacuated to the hotel’s basement.
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Photo Gallery: Dance Recital Tonight in Hannibal
Kami’s Kix Dance Studio presents their 11th Annual Recital, “Just Dance” on Friday, June 11, 2010, 7pm at the Hannibal High Schools Lockwood Auditorium; sponsored by the Hannibal Key Club. INSIDE: A gallery of photos of this year’s performances.
(Dance studios — we’d love your pictures. Send them along!)
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Fulton Police: Alcohol Sting Catches Two
Two Fulton men got caught in a police sting operation aimed at cutting down on underage drinking, police allege.
Police allege an undercover teenager approached the men outside of local stores and asked them to buy alcohol for them.
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RaiderNet Daily: Top Honors
The final edition of RaiderNet Daily for the 2009-10 school year is a big edition — ten pages of news, commentary and features. You’ll see who won academic awards, meet the winning Envirothon team, see the teachers who are retiring this year, and more.
Oswego County Today thanks the young men and women, along with advisor Len Senecal, who provided all of us with more than 150 editions of RaiderNet Daily this year. It was an outstanding effort.
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Hannibal Students Help Make 911 Maps More Accurate; ‘We’re Saving Lives’, Starting Careers
If you call 911, you want to know that the ambulance will pull into your driveway and not your neighbor’s, or the dirt driveway to your back lot. For emergency responders, time lost can be lives lost.
The county needed people to place more than 60,000 pinpoints on its new aerial maps to make sure emergency responders pulled into the right driveways.
An accidental meeting led to Hannibal Central School’s GIS program, one of the few in the state, and a project that got kids involved in saving lives.