A handful of area schools have signed up to participate in the Tuesday, Feb. 7, earthquake drill across nine states.
Last year was a struggle out at Veterans Field for the Hannibal Pirates as heavy rains left standing water in the outfield and along the warning track.
But after some maintenance, that may not be an issue this season.
Parents and high school students are invited to a financial aid meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at the Hannibal High School library.
At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, Hannibal High School will host an informational meeting in the library about the Early Enrollment Program at Hannibal-LaGrange University.
The hundreds of teens at the 16th annual Teen Health Fair Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center in Hannibal, Mo., were busy learning good health habits while also winning prizes.
Editor’s note: This story was printed in the mid 1870s in The Hannibal Clipper. Editor Mary Lou Montgomery set aside the story for use in this section, but lost the accompanying date of its publication. Three years worth of Hannibal Clipper newspapers are accessible on the Hannibal Free Public Library’s website.
Jacob M. Lowe, a slave, accompanied Moses Bates on a surveying expedition to Northeast Missouri, the present site of Hannibal, in 1818. Upon arrival, they found only a wilderness without sign of civilization. Indians were numerous but peaceable and only upon one occasion, was there ever blood shed in Marion County between the Indians and the whites.
Cecelia Obert, Master Gardener from Hannibal, will present a gardening program on saving seeds, heirloom seeds and square-foot gardening at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, at the Monroe City R-1 Schools.
The adult choir of Park Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Palmyra will host its annual Soul Food Dinner and Black History Program from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11.
Tyler W. Allen of Hannibal was recently named to the dean’s list for the 2011 fall semester at William Jewell College in Kansas City.
More than 450 candidates received degrees from Missouri University of Science and Technology during a commencement ceremony held Dec. 19 in the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building on campus.
