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The concept of time was woven through the speeches at Friday’s graduation ceremony at Hopkinton High School. Class president Manoli Barris reflected on the various periods of high school life. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh talked about the emphasis placed on time and...
According to founder Ben Schumaker, the goal of the Memory Project is to promote intercultural understanding and kindness between children around the world. Since its establishment in 2004, the youth arts nonprofit organization in Wisconsin has involved 300,000 youth...
Hopkinton High School graduation is scheduled for Friday, June 3, at 6 p.m. at the HHS football field. Rain date is Sunday, June 5. On Saturday, June 4, the graduation car parade will be held from 10 a.m.-noon. Cars (must be registered first) will start lining up at...
A dozen Hopkinton High School students with aspirations of health care careers will be in Nashville, Tennessee, from June 22-25 to compete at the International Leadership Conference for the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA). The students earned the honor...
The Hopkinton High School Hopkinetics robotics teams took home some hardware from the VEX Robotics World Championships in Dallas last month. Team 2602H (Rylee Blair, Emily Kimball, Joseph Marcinowski, Disha Mudenur, Jahnavi Prudhivi, Dylan Striek, Alexander...
Following Tuesday's shooting at an elementary school in Texas, Hopkinton will have an increased police presence at its schools, the superintendent and police chief announced Friday. "We are devastated and sorrowed by the heartbreaking events that occurred in Uvalde,...
At Thursday’s School Committee meeting, Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh shared details about a flood earlier this week in the basement at Hopkinton Middle School that resulted in 3-4 inches of water consistently and water up to 4 feet high in the elevator shaft. The...
An email from Hopkinton Public School administrators was sent out to schools families on Wednesday, one day after 19 students and two adults died in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. "We are writing, heartbroken, for the educators, students and families of Uvalde,...
In an email to Hopkinton Public Schools families Friday, Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh urged the use of face coverings during the COVID surge in town. Cavanaugh indicated that she met with the town's Emergency Management Group earlier Friday and was informed that the...
A five-member team of Hopkinton fourth-graders qualified to compete at the Global Finals for Destination Imagination, to be held in Kansas City from May 21-24. Founded in 1999, Destination Imagination is a volunteer-led, educational nonprofit organization that teaches...
Hopkinton Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Parson will leave the district to take a job as superintendent in Plainville at the end of this school year. Plainville School Committee members chose Parson at a meeting Thursday after interviewing the three...
The impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt in Hopkinton Public Schools. At Thursday’s School Committee meeting, Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh reported the number of students and staff with COVID at each school as follows: 19 students and six staff at Marathon, six...
The Hopkinton School Nutrition Department emailed schools families on Tuesday requesting that students pack lunches the next two weeks "due to an influx of positive COVID-19 cases among the school nutrition staff." There has been a surge in COVID-19 cases in town, and...
The Hopkinton Public Schools Visual Arts Department will host the annual A Night for the Arts on Thursday, May 19, starting at 6 p.m. The event — featuring hundreds of pieces from photography, ceramics, studio art, digital art, fab lab and more — will be held in the...
The Hopkinton Middle School Drama Club will present Disney’s “Frozen Jr.” at the HMS auditorium. Performances are Friday, May 20, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets, only available at the door, are $10 for students and $15 for adults. Young...
The School Committee on Thursday night rated Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh as “exemplary” in many areas of performance and noted that she exceeded expectations in achieving established goals. School Committee member Amanda Fargiano said the superintendent did an...
Community members in Hopkinton should be on the lookout in late summer/early fall for public forums where they’ll be asked for input on what a new elementary school should look like to replace Elmwood School. An option of renovations or changes to grade configurations...
Last summer, Hopkinton High School junior Dhaneshwar “Dhanu” Senthilkumaran was volunteering as a youth Red Cross ambassador and community volunteer. He noticed that some of his fellow volunteers had Red Cross Clubs at their schools and were able to connect with...
In 2009, Hopkinton High School English teacher Marie Martin asked her senior students a question: What do you want to remember from your last four years? Martin challenged them with a time-capsule project for them to document their years at HHS. Using a pen and paper,...
More than half of the three-hour School Committee meeting Thursday night was devoted to the issue of dyslexia and the various programs the district offers to address it and other learning disabilities. During the public comment period, several mothers spoke about the...
