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Spring Festival of Country Music May 17

05/06/2024

A night of toe-tapping country tunes and talent is on its way to Hannibal. The Spring Festival of Country Music will be 6 p.m. May 17 at the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center. The show will feature music performed by Memory Lane, which includes Martin and Betty Miller, Harlon Lain, Wendell…

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Tree of the Month for May

05/02/2024

The Tree of the Month for May is a pin oak at 601 Country Club Drive, at the home of Joe and Sharon Welch. The Tree Board established a Tree of the Month Award to celebrate Hannibal’s beautiful urban forest and its stewards. The Tree Board’s mission is to encourage…

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Night Hike to focus on momma bats and baby bats

05/02/2024

There will be a Night Hike through Sodalis Nature Preserve at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 10 called “Momma Bats and Baby Bats.” Mother bats bear young from mid-May through mid-June, said Gale Rublee, interpreter guide at Hannibal Parks & Recreation, and most bats have one, sometimes two babies. “Just like…

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Storybook Trail goes up in May

04/30/2024

The Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department is providing a Storybook Trail in Central Park specially geared to young children. The Storybook Trail will be May 1-16. The book is “Are We There Yeti?” written by Ashlyn Anstee, which is a picture book about Bigfoot driving the school bus on a…

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Arbor Day Tree-Planting rescheduled

04/26/2024

Due to inclement weather in the forecast, the Arbor Day Tree-planting has been rescheduled to Friday, May 3. The Hannibal Tree Board and Hannibal Parks & Recreation will plant a tree at 1:30 p.m. at Norfolk & Southern Multi-Sports Complex with the help of fourth-graders from Stowell, Holy Family, St….

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