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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 (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...
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...
Carolyn Jeanne Anderson, 71, of Hopkinton, residing in Millbury, passed away Sept. 17. She was the daughter of the late Herbert F. and Jeanne H. Cook. She was the wife of 16 years of the late Albin Anderson Jr. Carolyn was a secretary for the Hopkinton school system...
Hearing scheduled for Gibb statue The Historic District Commission will hold a public hearing regarding the Bobbi Gibb Marathon Sculpture Project on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Senior Center. Tom Carey, who owns the building at 1 Main St. in the center of town, has...
Police officers OK’d for retirement The saga of the three Hopkinton police officers who went on leave at the same time in 2017 with work-related injuries appears to be nearing an end, as the Middlesex County Retirement Board approved all three for accidental...
To the editor: I knew I had to get a dumpster to clean up my house and garage after years of living here in Hopkinton. I had no idea how I was going to get this accomplished. I needed to find a few bodies with muscles to help me get this done. My neighbor suggested...
[Recently] I rode my road bike (skinny-tire 10-speed) the entire length of the completed portions of the Upper Charles Trail, from the Hopkinton-Milford town line through Milford, then through Holliston to the Sherborn border. I didn’t think my bike would do well on...
To the editor: The purpose of this letter is not to add to the debate of whether aerial spraying in Hopkinton was justified. However, in the interest of full disclosure, I question the reasoning behind introducing a toxin to all of Hopkinton (including watershed...
Ben Powers, a 2019 Hopkinton High School graduate who is a freshman at Norwich University, takes a break after completing the Dog River Run during Day 7 of Rook Orientation Week at the Vermont school.
ARRESTS September 8 7:01 p.m. Sergeant Aaron O’Neil and Officer Benjamin Stickney conducted a motor vehicle stop on Hayden Rowe Street and subsequently arrested Julio O. Flores, 39, of 13 Orchard St., Milford, and charged him with drinking alcohol from open...
Susan Jane Rand, 73, passed away Sept. 8, at Golden Pond in Hopkinton after a long illness, surrounded by her family. Susan was a graduate of Danvers High School. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Salem State College and her master’s in...
