Rally ramps up local effort to keep Hancock schools open

by Kate Shunney

Students, teachers, parents and several generations of Hancock graduates showed up at Hancock Middle-Senior High School last Tuesday evening to make clear their commitment to keeping Hancock schools open for future classes.

Wearing bright blue “Save Our Schools” t-shirts on the first warm afternoon of March, people of all ages held signs and signed petitions urging officials with Washington County Public Schools to veer away from consolidating or closing Hancock’s schools.

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