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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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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

(Elelmentary Tap)ABC- Evlynn Cappelletti, Kimberly Hilton, Brandon  Rozner, Lauren Rozner, Alivia Thompson, Angel Wilber

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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Hannibal Students Help Make 911 Maps More Accurate; ‘We’re Saving Lives’, Starting Careers

Natasha Waloven works on the GIS system as Patrick Sullivan looks  on.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.

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