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HancockJr. Mints feature The BeatlesLast spring, Music on Norway Pond’s young singers, the Jr. Mints, started a new tradition with a program of songs all by one artist, Pete Seeger.On Sunday, June 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. on Hancock Common, the Jr. Mints...

Harris Center for Conservation Education, 83 King’s Highway in Hancock, will host “A Monadnock Garden Day: Gardening in a Changing World” Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Gardening experts Page Dickey, Edwina von Gal, Helen O’Donnell and John...

On June 10, boaters will gather at Norway Pond in Hancock for Avenue A’s Blindfolded Boat Race – a canoe race, with a twist.Teams of two raise funds for Avenue A’s programs for youth to enter the race. Each canoe has a navigator who sits in the back...

Every year, on the first warm, rainy nights of spring, thousands of amphibians migrate to wetlands to breed. Many are killed when they must cross roads. In response, the Harris Center coordinates volunteer salamander crossing brigades, who move...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

The vacant field adjacent to the Hancock Depot Cabaret, which the Depot Association has used for parking in the past, has been officially designated as a municipal parking lot by the Hancock Select Board.The board hopes this designation will alleviate...

Registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor Tiffany Calcutt will present a workshop addressing body image and how people eat Thursday, June 6, at 7 p.m. at Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St.Calcutt strives to help people enjoy a...

On May 23,, the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript published a letter from Rebecca Hull endorsing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president (“The voice of reason for we the people”). Every time I hear his name, the 1980s song "Lunatic Fringe" pops into my head.RFK...

I am something of a content junkie. It borders on hoarding. It may be out-and-out hoarding, who knows?It is some sort of condition, for sure, because I am faced with clearing out the piles of subscriptions, online and print, that are stacked up around...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

The Hancock Historic District Commission approved several proposed alterations to the Hancock Inn at a public forum Tuesday night – potentially paving the way for the inn to reopen this summer.Craig Hastings, the inn’s director of hospitality, said...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Friends of the late Dick Nevell of Hancock remember him for his love of music, a love through which he made many friends in the Monadnock region and around the world.Nevell, who died May 12 at the age of 76 at Pheasant Wood Center in Peterborough, was...

On Friday, May 31, at 7 p.m., Hancock Town Library will host a 205th birthday celebration for Walt Whitman.The Spifflicated Readers will present Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. The four readers – Jane Eklund, Henry Walters, Sy Montgomery and Howard...

These days, it’s getting harder and harder to remove ourselves from technology.Our phones buzz, watches beep and – in the not-so-distant future – our glasses will light up with text messages, emails and notifications for this, that or the other thing....

Sabria Arsenault of Rindge, Brigham Boice of Peterborough, Liam Harrison of Dublin,  Riley Momenee of Francestown and Samuel Sussman of Hancock were named to the Champlain College dean's list for achieving a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher in the...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

The Hancock Select Board has decided not to accept the Hancock Inn’s offer to pave about 80 feet of Tombstone Territory, the short street between the inn and the Hancock Town Library that leads to Norway Plain Cemetery.While the board appreciated the...

As an undergraduate in New Haven, Conn., who directly experienced the campus unrest during the 1960s, I totally agree with what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said about the very similar events the United States is currently experiencing today.In saying...

I support women’s reproductive rights, so I am alarmed by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, but I think that the topic of abortion is a distraction from the current risk to all women’s rights.I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Dobbs decision...

The Staycation special section from the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript and Concord Monitor has information about summer activities in New Hampshire, including nature activities from the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock and the Park...

Jason Bergeron of Dublin, Perrine Holmberg of Hancock, Meara McClusky of Peterborough, Avery Pope of Peterborough, Elijah White of Peterborough, Reid Wilson of Francestown and James Wolpe of Dublin were named to the dean’s list at St. Lawrence...

Madeline Rugg of Hancock, Meredith Partridge of Mason, Lillian Rennie of Rindge, Ben Gebhardt of Wilton and Owen Gebhardt of Wilton were named to the dean's list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the fall semester of the 2023-2024 academic...

Kelley Akerley of Hancock was named to the Kalamazoo College winter 2024 dean's list. Dean's list recognition is earned with a grade-point average of 3.5 or better.