HANCOCK — Hancock’s annual Heikinpäivä celebration will become larger and busier following the city’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) meeting Monday evening. The snow sculpture competition held last year in February on the Quincy Green will now be conjoined with Heikinpäivä in January. The DDA approved $14,000 to fund the snow sculpting invitational event, which will expand in size compared to last year due to the city celebrating its designation as the 2026 Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture.

“We’re trying to divvy up and budget how this is all going to look and bump these celebrations up a bit,” Todd Gast of the Hancock DDA said. “The snow sculpture one is probably going to be the biggest bite out of that. But what we’re hoping to do is [have] our sponsorships like we did last year and

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