Area News

By Dave Taylor Hancock County Public Library is a star after being named a Star Library by the publication Library Journal. The accolade came as a surprise to director Tina Snyder because it was published in the magazine without anyone ever telling her they’d earned the title. The rating is based on numbers gathered from…

  By Dave Taylor As of Monday, January 6, 2020, Hancock County is a wet county. Prohibition officially ended after a landslide countywide vote November and licenses applications are already being turned in. As of Wednesday afternoon, the county’s alcoholic beverage control administrator Rachael Emmick had seen applications filled out and returned by Bill’s IGA…

By Dave Taylor Walter Toler has lived a long, interesting life, but the 91-year-old almost didn’t make it out of his 20s after getting caught out on his own during the Korean War and having to call in an air strike on his own position. Toler, who grew up in Lewisport on a farm adjoining…

By Dave Taylor Hancock County is all wet. Voters overwhelmingly approved the sale of alcoholic beverages in the county by a vote of 2,183 to 1,377, with the “yes” vote winning every single precinct. A wet-dry vote for the city of Hawesville also passed easily, 224 for and 155 against, although the county going wet…

By Dave Taylor The 2019 version of Jared Keown is very similar to the 2010 version. He’s fresh out of school, he’s into playing sports, and the people around him speak with funny accents. Now Dr. Keown, with a Ph.D. in astrophysics and living in Sweden, he’s also worlds away from the Hawesville baseball and…

By Dave Taylor On October 30, Elizabeth Harris will celebrate 50 years of giving Hancock Clarion readers a glimpse into life in Boling Chapel in her weekly column. In “News from Boling Chapel” Harris notes the social happenings of the area during the past week, listing birthdates, weddings, family gatherings and who visited whom, and…

By Dave Taylor The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department is fully staffed again with the hire of a new deputy last week. Justin Basham, who grew up in Lewisport and now lives in Hawesville with his wife Mary Beth, was hired last week for the job he grew up dreaming about. See this week’s Hancock Clarion…

By Dave Taylor November’s issue of Country Living magazine features a home familiar to nearly anyone who’s driven into Lewisport in the past 118 years or so, with the stately, white home of Mike and Cindy Fallin prominently placed on a page of tempting century-old homes on the market across America. The home, located at…