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D-H Boys Basketball Micah Simmons goes inside to score early in the game with the Oxford Black Hawks on December 18, 2025 [Photo by Mary Ryan] Jeremiah Diaz gets inside for a layup at the December 18, 2025, boys varsity game against Oxford. [Photo by Terry Ryan] D-H...

DEP Announces Watershed Protection Land Purchase

On December 22, 2025, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced the highest value watershed land purchase ever made to protect the City’s drinking water supply has been completed. The $12.56 million acquisition of more than 48 acres near...

Slip-Sliding

Winter is here in earnest. Through December 26-27, 2025, a winter storm brought the region snow accumulations from 4 to 9 inches. An ice storm on December 28-29 significantly impaired roads and curtailed travel. Thanks goes out to our local plow and road maintenance...

A 1950s Ping Pong Bash

1950’s Theme Party Held at Fox Bowling to Celebrate Release of Marty Supreme By Kristin Barron A 1950s theme party was held at Fox Bowling Center in Hancock on Saturday, December 27 to celebrate the release of the hit movie Marty Supreme—which was partially filmed at...

Destination Hancock

Picture of the Week

Sweet White-Tail Fawn—Pat Mezzatesta snapped this photo of two does, one with her nursing white-spotted fawn, on the woods line at her home in French Woods. Animal young, including fawns and bear cubs, are an exciting and enjoyable sight to see this time of year.

Obituaries

Ruby J. Hagenmeier

Ruby J. Hagenmeier

April 6, 1941 to December 28, 2025 Ruby Jean Hurst Hagenmeier, 84, of Lakewood,...

Helen Hathaway Freedman

Helen Hathaway Freedman

June 26, 1946 to December 18, 2025 Helen Hathaway Freedman, 79, of Brevard, NC, died on...

Susan K. Nichols

Susan K. Nichols

May 1, 1947 to December 28, 2025 Susan Kay Nichols, 78, of Walton, NY, died peacefully...

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Through the Years

100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago

“No Cause for Action” A dispute as to the merits of a dog was settled in Hancock last Saturday but not so disastrously as the one at Hawley, Pa., on Nov. 26th when one of the interested parties lost...

75 Years Ago

From Thursday January 4, 1951

Vital Statistics, Village, Town, Year of 1950 According to figures obtained from Town Clerk Frederick R. Dix, there were 10 more marriages in the Town of Hancock in 1950 than in 1949. Births ran...

50 Years Ago

From the Thursday January 1, 1976 Issue

Trooper Richardson Suffers Neck Injury While Checking Mishaps Trooper Richardson of the Troop C. Substation in Deposit was kept busy last Saturday during the snowstorm investigating one, two, and...

25 Years Ago

From the Wednesday January 3, 2001 Issue

Beaver Mt. Log Homes Wins Award in Home Design Contest Beaver Mountain Log and Cedar Homes, Inc., Hancock, was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2000 Excellence in Model Home Design...

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