Hancock News

Thinking about adding some solar panels on the roof of your garage? How about a wood pellet boiler for your home or small office building? Or could the wind shaking the trees outside your bedroom also cut your electric bill? Those are the types of questions more and more people are asking these days.

Vice President Joe Biden offered high-fives to schoolchildren, kisses to female voters and even a shout-out to a Mitt Romney supporter during an unscheduled lunchtime visit to the Peterboro Diner on Tuesday afternoon.

The common area in front of the Hancock town office will soon be getting a little greener, once the eastern end of the driveway in front of the building is closed off, dug up and seeded over.

A vocal group of parents from Francestown turned out at Tuesday's ConVal School Board meeting to express their displeasure with a recent board vote that would change the full-day kindergarten at Francestown Elementary School to a half-day program.

The 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, "Wit," is the story of a scholar of 17th-century poet and philosopher John Donne who is dying from ovarian cancer.