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I finally went to the trouble of getting a canoe onto Carpenter’s Marsh in Hancock, which is a broad expanse of Moose Brook, between Willard and Norway Pond. Getting there requires four-wheel drive and something to port the canoe, a trailer for...

On March 17, 2017, my sisters and I buried our father at Arlington National Cemetery. Our father served in the United States Air Force for 33 years. He was buried with full military honors.As we followed the procession from the chapel to the...

Colin Van Ostern goes low in his latest fliers. He labels Maggie Goodlander as “having worked for a Republican who supports abortion.” He accuses her of being a “carpetbagger,” having moved into the states just six years ago. These are well-tested...

Author and New Hampshire native Joyce Maynard will talk about her latest novel, “How the Light Gets In,” Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. at Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St.Maynard has been a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, a syndicated...

Kate Johnson of Hancock will be the featured artist with “Movement and Stillness” at the Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St., Sept. 7 to Oct. 16.An opening reception will be held in the Daniels Room Saturday, Sept. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m.An abstract artist,...

Hancock native Christine Luby will present “A Life on Set - Stories and Anecdotes from 17 Years in the Film Industry” Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St.Luby is an established film and television director who has...

Colin Van Ostern’s latest campaign literature lists four reasons why Maggie Goodlander’s candidacy is “troubling.”They are that she gave thousands of dollars to pro-life candidates, she was a senior adviser to an anti-abortion Republican senator, she...

Students at The Well School in Peterborough started back to school Wednesday, Aug. 28. The Well School, founded by Peterborough residents Jay and Toni Garland in 1967, has 125 students in pre-K through grade eight.

Odette Butler of Hancock and Peterborough Fire Chief Ed Walker have been named to the 38-member Leadership New Hampshire Class of 2025.Leadership New Hampshire is a statewide program whose mission is “building a community of informed and engaged...

It is Old Home Day season in New Hampshire and in Hancock, the centerpiece is the Fire Department chicken barbecue. Fifteen dollars gets you a half chicken, potato salad and cole slaw, a roll, slice of watermelon and a can of soda.Fire Department...

Come late summer, you’ll find me out exploring one of the area’s many wetland waterways by kayak or canoe. This must-do destination at this time of year is a broad impounded section of the Contoocook River known as Powder Mill Pond, which straddles...

Hancock Depot Association presents a performance by Abbie Gardner Sunday, Aug. 25, at 3 p.m. at the Hancock Depot, 27 Depot Road.Gardner is a singer and dobro player who performs solo or with her Americana band Red Molly. Her father, Herb Gardner,...

The Hancock Old Home Days celebration on Saturday was full of activities, including the Betty PelsRun for the Honey, a parade, an art and photography show, performances by the Synchro Sisters and the Temple Band, a Family Foam Party and chicken...

Kassian Eaton of Somerville, Mass., won the Betty Pels Run for the Honey Saturday morning as part of Hancock’s Old Home Days.The 28-year-old covered the 5K course in 16 minutes, 40 seconds. Kristen Ramey of Peterborough was tops among the women,...

President Joe Biden’s record over the past 3 1/2 years makes him one of the most-consequential leaders in our country’s history. Space allows only a brief and incomplete list of his accomplishments: creating more than 14 million jobs, preventing...

Hancock’s Old Home Days celebration will be Friday, Aug. 16 to Sunday, Aug. 18.Events kick off Friday with an ice cream social, Gravy Train food truck and music from Skip Philbrick from 5 to 7 p.m. on the Town Common. The early bird book sale at...

The annual Friends of the Hancock Town Library Book Sale begins Friday, Aug. 16.The Early Bird Book Sale is Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. It is free to Friends members, $15 for non-members. The Friends are not accepting any more books mid-September.The sale...

The Betty Pels Run for the Honey 5K road race will be Saturday, Aug. 17, with a race start of 8 a.m.As part of Hancock’s Old Home Days celebration, the race is run on tree-lined paved and gravel roads. There are two moderate hills and  rolling...

I knew a very good and capable man a generation older than me with wonderful gardens around his farm in upstate New York. In the high summer months, arriving up the driveway for a visit, we were guaranteed to find him bent over behind the tall grasses...

Sometimes parents or grandparents have children or grandchildren who decide to be vegan or vegetarian, but the rest of the household is not. This can make it trickier for the kids who want to eat a plant-based diet to get enough nutrition, because it...

Senie Hunt, a self-taught singer-songwriter and percussive guitarist, will close out the Hancock Summer Concert Series at the Hancock Common Thursday, Aug. 15, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.Hunt, who endured the hardships of Sierra Leone's diamond wars during...