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Fulton Daily News

Hannibal School Board Discusses Setting Up Budget Committee To Blend Board, Community

“I think the community would appreciate a closer look at the budget process,” said board member Matt Henderson. But board president Dale Young cautioned that the process could backfire on efforts to build trust in the community.  What if, he asked, people tell us what they want and the board says no?

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School Districts Face Falling Off Stimulus ‘Cliff’

At least two local school districts — Fulton and Phoenix — rank in the top 3% of all districts in the state for receiving federal stimulus funds.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that those stimulus funds aren’t permanent and the state’s top financial officer is warning districts to plan now for the money they won’t be getting in 2011.  We’ve got a handy table to show you what your district got, and how it ranks alongside other school districts.

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Community

Kenney Middle School Students Succeed

Kenney Middle School is proud to announce that during the 2008-09 school year, fourteen students in the eighth grade were enrolled in advanced classes in math and science. Twelve students were enrolled in Living Environment and fourteen students were enrolled in Algebra. One hundred percent of these students passed the Regents exams.

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Fulton Daily News

P&C Purchase Would Make College Permanent in Fulton and ‘Masters of Our Own Destiny’

The closed P&C store at River Glen Square, potential future home of Cayuga Community College.

For more than 15 years, Cayuga Community College has been working in leftover, rented spaces. Now, it wants a home of its own.

The $11.2 million plan to buy the closed P&C Foods store at River Glen Square is intended, according to college President Daniel Larson, to create a space that “looks and feels and sounds and smells like a college campus.”

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SUNY Oswego English Professor Wins Fulbright-Nehru Award to Lecture in India

SUNY Oswego English professor Edward O'SheaAn internationally recognized scholar on the life and works of the seminal Irish writer W.B. Yeats, Edward O’Shea will teach Yeats at Kolkata’s Presidency College next semester. He will also lecture on the works of T.S. Eliot and Indian literature in English, such as the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.

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