Hannibal beats Quincy 5-4 in 10 innings

Tom Sawyer lived with Aunt Polly.  The Widow Douglas offered a home to Huckleberry Finn.  Fictional characters – real situations.  In the mid-1800s, there was no official safety net for orphans, like Tom Sawyer, or abused children, like Huck Finn.  Even by the early 1900s things had not changed much.  My own grandfather and his siblings were farmed out to different families when their mother died in 1905.  This was common practice, and siblings often never saw each other ever again.

The issue: Relocating National Tom Sawyer Days away from the immediate downtown area.
Our stance: We encourage people taking in the NTSD events and carnival to also visit the downtown Hannibal.

Among those who have been spending a lot of time watching The Weather Channel this week is Bryan Hammock, who is chairman of this year’s fireworks show for the Hannibal Jaycees. As Saturday night’s show has drawn closer, Hammock admits he’s turned his TV off.

The recent wave of military call-ups is claiming more than three officers with the Hannibal Police Department. Also being lost is the service provided by the HPD’s canine, Jury.

As if Hannibal’s iconic race weren’t tough enough as it is, Mother Nature decided on Saturday morning to make things just a little more tricky.

The Cavemen were so close to a win Friday night, they could almost taste it.
What they got to taste, instead, was the bitter tang of an extra-inning loss.