After the Town of Ball Mardi Gras Parade needed to be rescheduled due to some rainy weather last Saturday, Mayor Gail Wilking has invited the town to come out and celebrate in the streets on March 1.

At 3 p.m. on the town’s main street, a ball was thrown out of the second-story window of a mortgage broker’s office, and dozens of men roared in unison as they piled on top of it. They punched ...