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The wooden playground is old and splintering. A new playground is in the planning stages.
“Our goal every year is to stay under budget and we did,” said Superintendent Bill Lynch.
It’s the second year in a row that the district has spent less than it budgeted and the seventh in the last eight years that it spent less than it took in in revenues.
Hannibal’s high school marching band has always led the fire department’s annual field days parade. Thursday night, the job fell to the Central New York Fire and Police Band. But the band, eliminated by budget cuts, marched anyway. They came to make a point.
Click the story to see a full gallery of photos from the silent protest.
Besides the protest march by Hannibal marching band students and parents, there was plenty of color at the Hannibal Fire Department’s annual parade, the kickoff of its field days. We’ve got more than 80 photos in a photo gallery. Click the headline to get to the gallery.
The Island Band (seen here at Fulton’s Memorial Day Salute parade earlier this year) will be among the bands making music at tonight’s annual parade through the streets of Hannibal.
The Hannibal Fire Department’s annual field days open with the big parade, then oldies from Ruby Shooz at the field days site.
Friday night’s featured band is the big local rock band Under The Gun. Saturday, the annual classic country show brings the Grammy award-winning band, The Kentucky Headhunters, to Hannibal.
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