Hancock News

While researching her book "Birdology,'' author Sy Montgomery celebrated her 52nd birthday by dancing with perhaps the most famous bird in the world, Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo.

Eric Mays, a former resident of Hancock who now lives in Wilton, was found guilty Wednesday of negligent homicide and aggravated DWI related to a 2011 car crash in Stoddard that killed his friend, Brandon Farrow of Hancock.

"It's an all-Hancock production," author Sy Montgomery, right, says of her new book, "Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo." Montgomery is seen before a Thursday reading at the Hancock Library with the book's publisher, Sarah Bauhan, left, and its illustrator Judith Oksner.

On Wed., May 1, we were the fortunate recipients of support from eight local volunteer fire departments.

Click on the cover; scroll to page 12 and click on the page to enlarge. - Trivia time: The smallest parrot is the 3 1/2" long buff faced pygmy parrot of New Guinea.

Snowball the cockatoo was dropped off at a bird rescue organization in North Carolina after he bit his former owner when she returned from college.

Natural burial, solar panels, local produce, downtown Saturday the sixth annual Greenerborough "Green Living" Expo and Festival was bursting with ways to make life a little bit greener.

Alex Pope of Peterborough examines a larger version of one of his miniature submissions: A clay sculptural piece inspired by the wavy petals of a pansy.

When Eric Masterson was just 11 years old, his friend Mick Brown pointed out three birds to him along the east coast of County Wicklow in Ireland.