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Hancock, Maryland Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hi there, Hancock! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Want to decorate a tree for Hancock’s holiday festival?
  • Hancock’s wastewater plant estimate climbs to nearly $37 million
  • Rediscovered Civil War letter preserves a Hancock-area soldier’s words

Also on today's calendar: November Prize Bingo and 2 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Pleasant with some sun, with a high of 66 and low of 46 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with a little rain, temps: high: 59, low: 39.
  • Friday: Cooler with a few showers, with a high of 48 and low of 34 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Festival of Trees deadline in two weeks (thehancocknews.com) — Hancock families, businesses and community groups have until November 20 to register a decorated tree for the fourth annual Festival of Trees. The free event runs December 4–5, from 4 to 8 p.m., at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 200 Douglas Street. Registration is available through the “Free Activities 4 Hancock” Facebook page.
   

2. Estimated price tag for wastewater plant construction is now $37 million, engineers tell Hancock officials (thehancocknews.com) — Hancock’s planned wastewater treatment plant now carries an estimated price tag of nearly $37 million, roughly double its original cost. Engineers are pursuing grants and loans to help fund construction, with substantial funding still uncertain. The current schedule calls for finishing design in December and seeking construction bids in May.
   

3. Joseph Littleton Holland's Civil War Letter Home (morganmessenger.com) — A rediscovered Civil War letter offers a personal glimpse of Joseph Littleton Holland, who lived in Washington County’s Hancock District before joining the Union cavalry. Writing from a Richmond prison camp in November 1863, he urged his family not to worry. He died the following February, three days before his daughter was born.
   

4. Fire operations move into second day on 10-acre Cacapon Mountain fire (morganmessenger.com) — A wildfire on Cacapon Mountain jumped containment lines Tuesday morning, bringing crews back to fight its spread across more than 10.7 acres. Hancock Fire Company joined the regional response in West Virginia, including inside Cacapon State Park. Officials asked the public to stay out of the response area while crews worked.
   

5. Doris Elaine Vistoria Schultz (morganmessenger.com) — Doris Elaine Vistoria Schultz, a Hancock resident who cared for elderly neighbors, died November 3 at age 88. She enjoyed cards and bingo, but especially time with her 123 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Services were held November 6, followed by burial at St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery in Hancock.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Hancock

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