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After many meetings between 33 Main Street LLC and its representatives and the Hancock Historic District Commission over proposed renovations to The Hancock Inn, there appear to be a couple of sticking points remaining. These highlight the potential...

HANCOCKEvent to celebrate Julia OlderHancock Town Library, 25 Main St. in Hancock, will host “Julia Older: A Celebration of a Writing Life” Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the Daniels Room.Older was writer, translator and swimmer who wrote without...

By ROWAN WILSON

This is the 11th year that Jane Richards-Jones and Phil Jones have set a replica of the Hancock Meetinghouse out on the ice on Norway Pond to run their annual iceout contest. People participate in the contest by purchasing tickets and guessing what...

By ROWAN WILSON

In November, the Hancock Historic District Commission (HHDC) voted not to approve new Hancock Inn owner 33 Main Street LLC’s proposals to build an 8- by 24-foot brick wall to replace a wooden wall of the same dimensions on the parking-lot side of the...

By ROWAN WILSON

On Tuesday morning, parents and bundled-up babies explored the outdoors around the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock during one of the organization’s Babies in Backpacks and Toddlers in Tow events. Led by Community Programs Director...

By PAUL BRIAND

Cash was king in the purchase of at least 50 percent of residential real estate properties in the New Hampshire towns of Hancock and Lyndeborough during 2022.And in several other Granite State communities, at least 40 percent of the real estate...

Rachel Cass of Hancock was named to Ithaca College's fall 2022 dean's list.

Artistic Director Jody Hill Simpson leads the Norway Pond Festival Singers, joined by tenors, basses, and professional soloists, for Gilbert and Sullivan’s one-act “Trial by Jury,” followed by Ralph Vaughn Williams’ cantata “In Windsor...

By ROWAN WILSON

Police arrested a Hancock man Thursday after he allegedly had a gun inside Monadnock Community Hospital.According to a statement from Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard on the department’s Facebook page, at approximately 1 p.m. on Feb. 9, the...

HANCOCKHomeStead earns accreditationHomeStead Property Watch and Management Services of Hancock has earned accreditation from the National Home Watch Association for the third year.The NHWA was formed in 2009 in order to establish and maintain the...

My wife and I would like to acknowledge that without the intervention last Wednesday of two organizations, I would not be here today. I have a debt of gratitude that is unrepayable to the Hancock Fire Department and Peterborough Ambulance Service.Due...

Trevor Faber of Hancock and Samson Hodges of Mason were named to Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s fall 2022 dean's list.WPI does not compute a grade-point average, but instead defines the dean's list by the amount of work completed at the A level in...

-- DaniellRupp, Alexander Mills and Anna Gombas of Francestown.-- James Crawford of Greenville.-- Sabrina Smith and Casey Landry of Mason.-- Matthew Wilkins, Riley Bishop, Kylie Millea, Adrian Hall, Amber Hall, Avery McClain, Isabella Walden, Finneas...

By ROWAN WILSON

The Hancock Select Board accepted two state grants that would benefit the Police Department Monday evening.The first grant was $25,000 to purchase body-worn cameras for police officers.  “I think the grant is significant,” said Chief Thomas...

The evening brought visitors to Norway Pond in Hancock Monday.

HANCOCKLibrary to display Danel-Moore paintingsHancock Town Library, 25 Main St., will display an exhibit of paintings in various mediums by Laurence Danel-Moore Feb. 18 through March 21. There will be an opening reception in the library’s Daniels...

The Hancock Woman's Club will meet in the Vestry at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, to hear from Miriam Carter, executive director of the League of NH Craftsmen. Carter enjoys a national reputation and market for her work with fiber.In her tenure with...

Seize the day, or "carpe diem" as it is said in Latin.Do you know who your legislators are? Or do you know on which  committees they serve? What are their ideas and opinions and what are their plans for voting on particular bills? A democracy allows...

What does it say about us and the everyday world in which we live that it is the acts of kindness that startle us and take us by surprise? It was the usual weather for a Saturday vigil on Route 101 in Peterborough. Clear blue skies belied low...

By ROWAN WILSON

The Hancock Community Power Committee met Tuesday morning to discuss the community power warrant article they are writing that will be voted on during Town Meeting in March. The committee has been meeting to create a plan to bring community power to...