The Zoning Advisory Committee’s meeting Monday night focused on the town’s solar bylaw and what strategies the ZAC could use to develop a more comprehensive plan to limit commercial ground-mounted solar arrays. Town counsel previously warned that any substantial...
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 3.6 earthquake centered just off the Southeastern Massachusetts coast on Sunday morning, causing brief shaking that was felt throughout the region, reportedly as far as 100 miles away. Some people in Hopkinton reported...
Certainly criticism of Donald Trump is nothing new, but when it comes from a formerly loyal Republican it carries more weight. Hopkinton Select Board member Brian Herr was a Republican until two years ago, when he could no longer stomach the "negative and divisive"...
Anyone with an interest in the race for the presidency had to be feeling some anxiety during the week — before the election, on Election Day and then during the nationwide counting that was headed into the later part of the week as the race was too close to call....
The race for president remained a close one nationally heading into Wednesday morning, but in Hopkinton it was a landslide victory for Democrat Joe Biden. While there are some votes still to be counted — primarily late-arriving mail-in ballots and those that were...
The residents who proposed two four-lot developments off Cedar Street Extension and Lincoln Street introduced two new plans at Monday’s Planning Board meeting in hopes of getting...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced a slew of new restrictions Monday designed to control the current surge of COVID-19 cases, including a 10 p.m. curfew and a reduction in the...
The Boston Athletic Association announced Wednesday that the 2021 Boston Marathon will not be held on its traditional date of the third Monday in April and will be postponed "until at least the fall of 2021." “With fewer than six months until Patriots’ Day and with...
When town clerk Connor Degan scheduled his wedding for Oct. 3 he couldn’t have imagined what was in store. Not only is the entire world in the midst of a pandemic the likes of which has not been seen in over a century, Americans are participating in an election unlike...
During Monday night’s Zoning Advisory Committee meeting there was a public forum for zoning proposals and ideas. Not surprisingly, the conversation was focused on commercial solar zoning and how the town can better control the situation. “This was not intended to be a...
Freshman Johanna DuPont scored the game’s lone goal in the 64th minute as the Hopkinton High School girls soccer team completed a weekend sweep of Norton with a 1-0 victory on Sunday in Hopkinton. Tiffany Mikulis started the game-winning sequence when she dribbled up...
The Hopkinton Little League 9U team beat Southborough 10-0 in four innings on Sunday at EMC Park to win the Southborough Little League 9U Fall All-Star Championship with an 11-0 record. Hopkinton, which earlier this season won the Medway Tondorf Tournament, finished...
The Foundation for MetroWest announced 32 students, including Hopkinton’s Kevin Gu and Ashley Wojcik, will represent MetroWest on its Youth in Philanthropy (YIP) Junior Board. The students will serve on the student-run board, which functions like a nonprofit board and...
At Tuesday night's meeting the Select Board discussed possible changes or clarifications to its policies, most notably the public comment portion. The issue rose to the forefront in August, when Select Board chair Brendan Tedstone allowed four people to deliver...
Hopkinton High School principal Evan Bishop emailed families Wednesday to inform them that there has been another positive case of COVID-19 in the HHS community. The Hopkinton Public Schools are working closely with the Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC) and...
At Tuesday night's Conservation Commission meeting, the commission unanimously ruled that a Lumber Street couple who had two forestry cutting plans approved by the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation could not remove trees to access one of the desired...
Following the deaths of a number of people of color at the hands of police earlier this year, some Metropolitan Boston community leaders joined together and signed a pledge to “address systemic racism in our communities and violence in law enforcement.” The Select...
Town health director Shaun McAuliffe, in his COVID-19 update to the Select Board on Tuesday, warned that there has been a “significant increase in the number of cases in town over the last two weeks,” and with seven active cases Hopkinton is expected to shift to the...
The Select Board threw its support behind two new programs related to COVID-19 and one returning program that are designed to provide financial assistance to residents. “The two programs that we are introducing tonight speak to why Hopkinton is a great community,”...
The proposed Lincoln Street/Cedar Street Extension development was the primary focus of Monday’s Planning Board meeting, with the discussion centered on whether the area would be better served with two cul-de-sacs or a through road. The Planning Board received...
