Susan E. Matz, 74, passed away Sept. 21 at Golden Pond in Hopkinton. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Phoebe (Land) and John Edwin Matz. Susan loved attending lectures, country music concerts, professional bull riding, golf and tennis....
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Richard Denham
Richard Denham, 85, four days short of his 86th birthday, passed unexpectedly on Sept. 21. He was the husband of Elizabeth (Dunn) Denham, who passed in 2005. He was born in Newton to James and Dorothy Denham. The family moved to Framingham when he was in high school....
Patricia Guterman
Patricia Guterman, 83, of Hopkinton, formerly of Boynton Beach, Florida. passed away Sept. 27. She is survived by her devoted children, Dr. Lee (Dr. Lisa Benson) Guterman, Marcy Laredo and Jaime (Joel) Carlson. She was the cherished grandmother of Eve, Beryl, Sidney,...
Elizabeth Cusack
Elizabeth Helen Cusack, 77, of Holliston, passed away unexpectedly Sept. 22. Born in Waltham, she was the daughter of the late Helen (Statkus) and Gilbert M. Scott. She was the wife of the late Richard James Cusack, her high school sweetheart who passed in 2016....
Charles Higgins
Charles William Higgins, 91, of Medfield and formerly of Holliston, passed away Sept. 21 at All American Assisted Living in Wrentham. Born in Holliston, he was the son of the late Mary (Stevens) and Charles Davis Higgins. He was the husband of the late Rita (O’Brien)...
Arlene Riedle
Arlene G. Riedle, 92, of Hopkinton, passed away Sept. 20. Born in Milford, she was the daughter of the late Alice G. (Barrows) and Ernest L. Kempton. She was the wife of 68 years to John Irwin Riedle of Hopkinton. Arlene was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and...
Photo: Happy Trails
The Trails Hopkinton, an active adult community of homes in Legacy Farms North, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct 1 in conjunction with its first broker open house. Among those attending were (from left): Hopkinton Chamber of Commerce communications chair Amanda...
News Briefs: Fire Department to add staff after FEMA grant
Fire Department to add staff after FEMA grant The Hopkinton Fire Department was award a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worth $548,000, the town announced in an Oct. 8 press release. The three-year grant, which comes from FEMA’s Staffing for...
Letter to the Editor: End the Downtown Corridor Project
To the Editor: Recently Select Board member Brian Herr asked, “Where is the harm?” when confronted by Main Street property owners with questions yet to be answered about the Downtown Corridor Project (DCP). I was taken aback by the board’s seeming inability to grasp...
Letter to the Editor: Support for stone dust trails
I’d like to second John Ritz’s letter about stone dust trails in last week’s Independent. My dog and I use Center Trail almost every day and it’s always a pleasure to leave the noise and heat of Main Street and enter its peaceful shade. In a hundred feet you’re in the...
Letter to the Editor: Another abutter asks to abandon DCP
To the Editor: What used to be a quiet country downtown has turned into an urban traffic nightmare. The Downtown Corridor Project started out years ago to be a plan to mitigate congestion in the downtown area That goal is no longer realistic. There are more cars, more...
Paying it forward after cancer-free diagnosis
Editor’s note: In the previous issue of the Hopkinton Independent there was an article on 5-year-old cancer survivor Brody McDermott. The following is an excerpt from his mother’s blog post about her experiences celebrating his cancer-free diagnosis. By Lindsay...
Sports Roundup: Hopkinton Tennis Tournament crowns champions
Hopkinton Tennis Tournament crowns champions Ben Daly was a winner in the advanced men’s singles and advance men’s doubles divisions of the 12th annual Hopkinton Tennis Tournament, which was held Sept. 13-15 at the Hopkinton High School courts. Daly defeated Austin...
Schools Notebook: 4 from HHS named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists
Four Hopkinton High School students — Timothy Fargiano, Alexander Matsoukas, Matvey Ortyashov and Grace Ye — were named semifinalists in the 65th National Merit Scholarship Program. Hopkinton resident Hamsa Shanmugam, who attends Ursuline Academy, also was named a...
College honors: Residents achieve college success
Hopkinton’s Elisabeth Christ, a junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense, hands-on research through the WPI project center in China. The project was titled Smart Technology. At WPI, all undergraduates...
Arrests/Police Log, Oct. 2 edition
ARRESTS September 19 5:22 a.m. On South Street, Officer Brendon Lyver arrested Esteban Castillo Jr., 35, of 17 Bowdoin Drive, Milford, on a warrant. POLICE LOG September 10 7:36 a.m. A Constitution Court caller reported a suspicious man asked her how...
Stanley Stenberg
Stanley C. Stenberg, affectionately known as “Sonny,” passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 8 at the age of 86. He was a native of Springfield and eldest son to Chris and Dolly Stenberg. He was a proud U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War, member of the Sons of...
Ron Nordstrom
Ronald (Ron) A. Nordstrom, 82, of West Boylston, died Sept. 10 with family at Rose Monahan Home after a long period of declining health. Ron is survived by his wife of 57 years, Barbara (Nelligan) Nordstrom, his three children, Beth Keach and her husband, Steven, of...
Joanna Vincent
Joanna (Quinn) Vincent, 97, of Simsbury, Connecticut, beloved wife of the late Elmer Vincent, died Sept. 19, 2019. She was born July 30, 1922, in Simsbury, daughter of the late Thomas Charles and Laura (Welton) Quinn and had lived in Simsbury her entire life. Joanna...
Henry Wyman
Rev. Dr. Henry Gregory Dinsmore Wyman, a World War II veteran, passed away peacefully with his wife by his side on Sept. 21 at his residence in Hopkinton. He was born in Brewer, Maine, on Nov. 7, 1924, the son of Samuel and Ethel (Linscott) Wyman. He leaves behind his...