From the Thursday, December 2, 1971 Issue 25” Fell on “Snowgiving” Day Area residents were alerted to expect a six-inch accumulation...

From the Thursday, December 5, 1946 Issue Raymond Leet Farm to be Busy Place Tuesday Morning The farm home of Raymond H. Leet, four...

From the Wednesday, December 4, 1996 Issue Hancock Fire Department The Hancock Fire Department responded to a mutual aid call from...

December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks ignites bus boycott. In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a...

From the Thursday, November 28, 1946 Issue Hospital Drive Nears Its Goal in Closing Days The people of Hancock and vicinity have...

November 24, 1859 – “Origin of Species” is published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, a groundbreaking...

From the Thursday, November 25, 1971 Issue Village Without Water AGAIN Residents of the Village awoke Monday morning to discover...

From the Wednesday, November 27, 1996 Hancock Wrestlers Make Television Tag Team Debut Professional wrestlers John Diamond (John...

Tuttle Gets 14; Smith 12 Years Both Seriously Charged by Tuttle’s 13-Year-Old Girl In court Tuesday morning Edward Tuttle aged 33 and...

November 17, 1558 – Elizabethan Age Begins: Queen Mary I, the monarch of England and Ireland since 1553, dies and is succeeded by her...

From the Thursday, November 18, 1971 Issue Harold J. Kille, 66, Fatally Stricken While Deer Hunting The big game season opened in the...

From the Wednesday, November 20, 1996 Issue HCS Senior Class will Present “Where it All Comes True” Nov. 23 The HCS Senior Class will...

Appeal Argued In the Appellate Division third department, Friday was argued the case of James F. Schoonmaker, respondent, against the...

From the Thursday, November 21, 1946 Issue Good Number of Deer is Reported Taken in Hancock The Catskill and Southern Tier areas of...

From the Thursday, November 14, 1946 Issue Board of Trade Urges Holiday Street Lighting Hancock to Decorate for First Time Since...

From the Wednesday, November 13, 1996 Issue County Declares Emergency Following Heavy Rains Delaware County was declared a disaster...

November 10, 1969 – On November 10, 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the...

From the Thursday, November 11, 1971 Issue “Get Smart” to be Staged Tomorrow by HCS Seniors On Friday evening, November 12, the Class...

Indicted on Murder Charge Raymond Greene to go on Trial Next Monday for Shooting Chester Eldred To Be Tried at Honesdale Defendant...

From the Wednesday, October 30, 1996 Issue Renovation Schedule Given to School Board According to HCS Superintendent Richard Dillon,...

From the Thursday, November 7, 1946 Issue Hospital Fund Approaches the Half-way Mark Bolstered up by a five-hundred-dollar gift from...

November 3, 2014 – One World Trade Center officially opens in Manhattan on November 3, 2014. The new tower, along with the rest of...

Horton V. G. White Takes Own Life Former Well-known East Branch Businessman suicides Tuesday While On a trip to Downsville, His Old...

From the Thursday, November 4, 1971 Issue McGranaghen Re-Elected; Cappiello Defeats Assessor Palmer; GOP Holds Other Offices As a...

October 27, 1904 – New York City subway opens At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan...

From the Thursday, October 28, 1971 Issue Arizona Firm Buys Mallery Co. Stock Southwest Forest Industries today reported it has...

From the Wednesday, October 30, 1996 Issue Delaware County Hires Firm to Institute 911 Delaware County Supervisors have hired a...

From the Thursday, October 31, 1946 Issue 1000 Watch HCS Beat Sidney, 7-6 First Game Played Under Lights on Local Field Hancock...

Auto Rolled Over Twice Last Saturday evening Frank Bush of Cadosia drove his new Ford touring car to Long Eddy to attend a dance....

October 20, 1947 — Congress Investigates Communists in Hollywood On October 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare kicks into high gear in...

From the Wednesday, October 23, 1996 Issue Reported Gunshots on Wheeler Street According to Village Police Chief James McGraw,...

From the Thursday, October 21, 1971 Issue HCS Wildcats Defeat Long Time Rival Deposit 18-13 By Bill Gilchrist Hancock Central...

From the Thursday, October 17, 1946 Issue Canvass is Begun to Raise Funds for the Hospital The committee of eight who volunteered to...

From the Wednesday, October 16, 1996 Issue Building Razed The building that housed the Mobil Station at the corner of West Main and...

Four Men Killed in Rear End Collision Erie passenger train No. 8 running between Buffalo and New York City, was wrecked about 1...

From the Thursday, October 14, 1971 Issue BOCES Offering 13 Programs The BOCES Western Delaware “Area” Occupational Education Program...

From the Thursday, October 10, 1946 Issue Artificial Breeding Association Organized 800 Cows Must Be Enrolled; 609 to Date At a...

From the Thursday, October 7, 1971 Issue Wm C. Hartgrove, NYS Legion V.C., Feted At Dinner The dining room at the Delaware Inn was...

Benefit Entertainment Great Success Joint Program by Band and Local Thespians Pleases Large Audiences Monday Night Representative...

From the Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Issue Homecoming Queen Nominees Deborah Rotzler, Laura Tracy, Anna Mae Kyle Possemato, Carella...

From the Wednesday, October 2, 1996 Issue Welcome To Charlie’s Great American The Hancock Great American supermarket chain closed on...

From the Thursday, October 3, 1946 Issue New Boys Camp At Island Pond Ready For 1947 Island Lake House has been purchased from...

From the Thursday, September 30, 1971 Issue Mrs. H. Chamberlain Highly Honored By National Edu. Assn. Mrs. Herbert G. Chamberlain,...

From the Thursday, September 25, 1946 Issue State’s Postwar Plans Call For Several Billion The New York Postwar Public Works Planning...

From the Thursday, September 23, 1971 Issue Work Started To Improve Golf Course An announcement appeared in The Herald on August 26...

While engaged at drawing props from a timber tract, Joseph Wood, 55, Lakewood, Pa., met with an accident near that place Thursday...

From the Wednesday, September 25, 1996 Issue Drafty School Windows Have Historic Value The windows at Hancock Central School may be...

From the Wednesday, September 18, 1996 Issue Town’s Anti Dump Law Upheld By Appeal Court The Town of Hancock’s anti-dumping law has...

From the Thursday, September 16, 1971 Issue Hancock Telephone Company Adopting Computer System At A Cost Of $250,000 … Change Will...

Fatal Accident at Preston Park Etsell the 13 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Campbell of Preston Park, Pa., met with a mishap...

From the Thursday, September 12, 1946 Reservoir Bridge at Shavertown to be 90 Ft. in Water Constructed, the projected bridge across...

From the Wednsday, September 11, 1996 Issue Town To Help BD With RR Crossing Problems The Hancock Town Council had a full agenda at...

From the issue of The Hancock Herald Dated September 8, 1921 (Wagner & Forester Publishers) Having sold his entire stock of...

From the Thursday. September 9, 1971 Issue Chief Radioman Ralph R. Johnson Retires from Navy Ralph R. Johnson, a native of Cadosia...

From the Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Issue New Teachers at HCS New teachers at HCS this year are Nancy Crosby, Kathy Norton, Kathryn...

From the Thursday, September 5, 1946 Issue Hancock Faces the prospect of losing hospital Hancock is facing a situation which might...

From the Thursday, August 26, 1971 BOCES to Open One Major Building One of two major building in the new BOCES Occupational Education...

From the Thursday, August 29, 1946 Issue Ford Cars in Transport Give Us Rare Show Hancock folks are enjoying a rare and odd spectacle...

From the Thursday, August 26, 1971 Issue New School Year Begins Here September 8; Enrollment of 1,250 Pupils An enrollment of 1,250...

From the Wednesday, August 28, 1996 Issue Mallery Lumber Bans Logs From Dead Maple Trees Mallery Lumber Company in Hancock has...

From the Thursday, August 19, 1971 Issue Re-Activate Swimming Pool at School” Wishes of Many Who Attended Public Meeting at HCS...

From the Thursday, August 22, 1946 Issue 144 Delaware Co. Men Died in the Service in War 15 From Hancock The Walton Reporter prints a...

From the Wednesday, August 21, 1996 Issue Rotary Scholarships Presented Rotary scholarships were presented on August 15 to four HCS...

From the Thursday, August 12, 1971 Issue Large Crowd Anticipated At Tonight’s Meeting to Discuss Swimming Pool A large turnout is...

From the Wednesday, August 14, 1996 Issue Town Okays Lordville Bridge Bid; To Forgo FEMA Aid on Biedekapp The Hancock Town Council...

From the Thursday, August 15, 1946 Issue Frightened Horse Jumps On Car, Inuring Four Arthur Wright of Hale Eddy, driving a team of...

From the Thursday, August 8, 1946 Issue Hancock to be Transfer Point for New Cars For many years the Ford Motor Company has had as...

From the Wednesday, August 7, 1996 Issue Printing Company Closes Doors Delaware Valley Offset Company in Deposit closed its doors for...

From the Thursday, August 5, 1971 Issue Bard-Parker Promotes Two Norman F. Forand has been promoted to the position of Plant Manager....

From the Thursday, August 1, 1946 Issue Maurice Stalker, 50 Killed Mrs. Gelatt and Shot Daughter Maurice Stalker, 50, who was named...

From the Wednesday, July 31, 1996 Issue Three Local Students Safe Following Atlanta Bombing Security at the Olympic Village in...

From the Thursday, July 29, 1971 Issue Health Department Tells Village Board Del. River Bad Among the items discussed at a...

From the Wednesday, July 24, 1996 Issue Scoutmaster Lamar Burden Named Paul Harris Fellow By Rotary Club Lamar Burden, Scoutmaster of...

From the Thursday, July 22, 1971 Issue School District Voters Approve Budgets More than 250 qualified residents of Hancock Central...

From the Thursday, July 25, 1946 Issue O. & W. Wreck at Cooks Falls Friday Night Friday night, July 19, at about 9 o’clock, 23...

News From Around the World Harem Victim Tells Her Story Stolen from her home on the night before her wedding and imprisoned for five...

From the Wednesday July 17, 1996 Issue HCS Board Elects English President of Board Harvey English of Fishs Eddy was named President...

From the Thursday, July 15, 1971 Issue John Cappiello, 25, X-Ray Technician, Dies Suddenly The Hancock Baptist Church was practically...

From the Thursday July 18, 1946 Issue HCS Board Elects O’Neill President At the annual reorganization meeting of the Board of...

Thought They Were Spies Saturday afternoon two elderly looking men appeared at the home of Vere Kingsbury, Autumn Leaves, PA, about 5...

From the Wednesday, July 10, 1996 Issue Hancock Youths to Attend Summer Games Three Hancock residents will be heading to Atlanta in a...

From the Thursday, July 8, 1971 Issue Three Seek Seat On Board of Education Petitions have been filed as required by Education Law by...

From the Thursday, July 10, 1946 Issue Hancock Folks to Pay 2 Cents a Quart More M.J. Gales & Son and Arthur Thiele, milkmen...

East Branch: The writer regrets very much to report the unhappy side of life, but with the hope that publicity may be the means of...

From the Thursday, July 4, 1946 Issue Veterans! This is Your Day Homecoming Program Starts at 10 O’Clock. Whether discharged or still...

From the Wednesday, July 3, 1996 Issue Church Windows Being Repaired, Restored Gene Mallard, a stained glass restorer and painter...

From the Thursday, July 1, 1971 Issue That Sandwich, Beverage, Will Now Be Taxable Effective July 1, 1971, all food or drink sold for...

From the Thursday, June 24, 1971 Issue 98 HCS Seniors To Graduate Friday Tomorrow, Friday June 25, will mark the end of another year...

From the Wednesday, June 26, 1996 Issue Fifty Graduate From Hancock Central School The 108th Commencement of Hancock Central School...

From the Thursday, June 27, 1946 Issue J. Bruce Buckler Speaks At 58th H.C.S Commencement; Thirty-five Graduates in Class Thirty five...

From the Thursday, June 17, 1971 Issue Four HCS Teachers To Be Honored At Retirement Dinner Four Teachers, Mrs. Doris L. Davis, Mrs....

From the Thursday, June 20, 1946 Issue Collette Building Is Nearly Ready For Occupancy The Collette Company of Amsterdam, currently...

From the Wednesday, June 19, 1996 Issue HCS Names 1996 Honor Graduates Nicole Casta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Casta of Hancock,...

From the Wednesday, June 12, 1996 Issue Hancock Bike-A-Thon Riders Raise $1,200 For Children’s Hospital Fifteen students from the...

From the Thursday, June 13, 1946 Issue Youth of Today Less Durable Than In the Years Past Hancock Rotarians heard Kurt Beyer, the...

From the Thursday, June 10, 1971 Issue Commendation, Bronze Star Medals For M-Sgt. J. Edsall Master Sergeant James R. Edsall, a...

From the Thursday June 6, 1946 Issue Hancock’s New Dry Milk Plant To Be Modern In an interview with Dr. J. I. Murray, president of...

From the Thursday, June 3, 1971 Issue P. M. Branning Releases Statement Re: Mail Delivery Postmaster Emory J. Branning this week made...

From the Wednesday, June 5, 1996 Issue Historical Group Seeks Funds for Addition The Hancock Chehocton Historical Association has...

Appeal Argued In the Appellate Division third department, Friday was argued the case of James F. Schoonmaker, respondent, against the...

From the Thursday May 30, 1946 Issue Ten Highest in Graduating Class Announced by H.C.S. Miss Dorothy Ethel Hellmers, daughter of Mr....

From the Wednesday, May 29, 1996 Issue 1996 Prom Court Hancock Central School’s annual Junior Prom was held on Saturday, May 18. The...

From the Thursday, May 27, 1971 Issue Twin Falls Camp Grounds, Pa. Side, Sold to N.J. Man H.G. Runne who has operated the Twin Falls...

Sold Himself For a Mess of Potage Young man Defrauds Local Merchants, Used Worthless Checks Irving Simpson, aged about 22, is a...

Cole Found in Dazed Condition Delos Cole, the Endicott meat dealer who disappeared on the evening of August 29th after leaving his...

From the Thursday May 23, 1946 Issue Dead Soldiers to be brought home President Truman last week signed the burial bill directing the...

HCS Board Discusses Teams, Shared Services The Hancock Central School District Board of Education met on March 26 following the...

457 Persons Voted at Hospital Meeting Of the more than 1500 people who registered earlier this year to be eligible to vote at the...