Hancock
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011 - 2:22 pm
Photo of rusty mailbox by Flickr user Mandy Jansen. Published under Creative Commons license.
Today, the United States Postal Service released a list of almost 3,700 post offices across the country -- many of them in small, rural towns -- that the agency... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 10, 2011 - 2:37 pm
We'll find out tomorrow whether the Delaware River Basin Commission will allow water from the Oquaga Creek, a trout stream that drains into the West Branch of the Delaware River, to be used in hydraulic fracturing projects in Delaware and Broome counties... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 - 9:29 am
WBNG Action News is reporting that a fire engulfed a Hancock trailer home this morning. Although the trailer didn't have a smoke detector installed, the article reports that "2 adults and three kids living at the home made it out safe after noticing the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:33 pm
The New York State Police are reporting that two Hancock men, 45-year-old John T. Gurnick and 31-year-old James P. Santicola, were arrested last Thursday in Hancock for allegedly posessing crack cocaine, an illegal handgun, marijuana, marijuana... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 2:05 pm
A missing person alert for Alice Hall, an 83-year-old woman from Franklin, was issued this morning but then quickly cancelled when she turned up at home safely.
Hall's family reported Hall missing after she was last seen asking for directions to Franklin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 10:12 am
In the wee hours on Sunday, State Police responded to a call about a domestic dispute in Long Eddy, NY, near Hancock. But they ended up busting a marijuana farm allegedly growing in the home of the unhappy couple, both of whom have ties to law enforcement... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 11:20 am
The town of Hancock in Delaware County has declared a state of emergency, the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin and WBNG Channel 12 report.
Hancock, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Delaware County Emergency Services report a State of Emergency in Hancock. That's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 7:59 pm
From the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, July 8th, firefighters from East Branch and Downsville Volunteer Fire Departments and Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a structure fire on White... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Anybody know more about this? We got an alert from the NY DOT:
building fire has closed Route 97 South and North bound within the Village of Hancock @ 8am 7/14/2010 for about 4 hours, with local detours set-up
Please send eyewitness accounts, photos, or... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 3:11 pm
Online at Orion Magazine: A marvelous video on Ray Turner, proprietor of the Delaware Delicacies Smoke House, and the only stone-weir eel fisherman left on the East Coast.
eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
Turner, a white-bearded sage who... Read more
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