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%.
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.
Joe Perry will conclude 33 plus years with the department later this month. “It’s been a great job. I look forward to going to work every day,†he said at Monday’s council meeting.
UPDATE: Authorities have called off their search for a Scriba man missing since Saturday. A body was discovered earlier today (June 14)Â in a wooded area near County Route 1. It has been identified as the body of Joseph Stock, the missing man.
Our camera visited the annual American Cancer Society “Relay for Life” Friday at the Oswego High School track.
Teams from throughout the county spent the night walking the track in support of those who have fought cancer.
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.
The Oswego County Drug Treatment Court program recently had its largest graduation class ever. This is a sure sign that the program is being successful in helping people overcome drug addiction, according to the organizers.
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.
The British Flag was lowered and the American Flag was raised over historic Fort Ontario as a large audience, mostly elementary students, learned about the history of the flag and the fort, too.
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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