The thunderous roar revved up the crowd and when the charter bus pulled in, a red carpet was laid out for all the veterans to walk down, shake hands and hear plenty of people say, “Thank you.”
It might be a while before Franklin Reeves gets to mow his South Side Hannibal yard again. The riding mower he used to cut the grass of his 2015 Benton St. property Wednesday afternoon was destroyed when it caught fire inside his garage.
After hearing thousands of contestants belt out everything from jazz to rock standards, more than 132 million people voted for "American Idol" finalists Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips — and the majority of them decided to give Phillips a chance to make his dreams of becoming a star come true. Phillips' victory was just part of a memorable "Idol" season.
Coach Mark St Clair’s hands were occupied with a starter’s pistol as he answered questions about Hannibal High School’s track and field team on Wednesday morning at Porter Stadium. Despite a record-setting season, even by HHS standards, the veteran coach was not “shooting” his mouth off about his 2012 team’s accomplishments or its state expectations.
A Berkman retirement is going to come at some point. When? Well, only he knows. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was next week, at the end of the season, or if it’s after he went back to Houston to play one more year and finish where his career began.
Together they came together as a group and helped in their community. It was service with veterans at Fishing For Freedom, it was contributions to the D.A.R.E program, and now the members of the Young Patriots Club at Hannibal High School have been recognized for what they’ve done.
Months of work and planning officially came to fruition Tuesday night when the first official sand volleyball league matches were played on the Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department’s new courts at the South Side Recreation No. 1 Park, located just west of Missouri 79.
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