According to a post on the Hopkinton Public Schools website, one of the three finalists for Hopkinton superintendent announced Wednesday night no longer is in the running. School Committee chair Nancy Cavanaugh posted that Evan Bishop, principal at Hopkinton High...
The School Committee met via Zoom on Wednesday and announced the three finalists for the superintendent’s position. They are Evan Bishop, principal at Hopkinton High School; Mark McLaughlin, superintendent in South Hadley; and Ross Mulkerin, director of finance and...
A team from Hopkinton Middle School participated in the state Science Olympiad on March 8 at Assumption University in Worcester, marking its second appearance in the competition. HMS competed in 17 of the 22 events — including anatomy, crime busters, disease...
The Hopkinton School Committee on Thursday heard about a wall collapse at the Hopkins School addition/renovation project site and revisited cutting $415,000 from its fiscal year 2026 budget. Jeff D’Amico, managing director for Vertex (owner’s project manager) and Rob...
Hopkinton High School students earned 23 honors in the 2024 Scholastic Writing Awards, including seven gold keys and six silver keys. Senior Daniel Applebaum earned five awards, including two gold keys and one silver key, making him the second-most decorated writer in...
The Hopkinton High School Science Olympiad A and B teams competed at the Harvard Science Olympiad Invitational Feb. 1 among a field of 69 teams. Annika Chan and Barbara Wagner won a medal for first overall for “Write It Do It!” Additionally, many HHS teams placed in...
Marginal, the literary magazine at Hopkinton High School, earned the first class award, the highest honor, from the National Council of Teachers of English in the 2024 REALM competition. This is the third time Marginal achieved this honor, previously receiving it in...
A lack of outbreak reporting by nurses at Hopkinton Public Schools has resulted in responses and attention from both the Hopkinton Health Department and state agencies. Health Director Shaun McAuliffe first brought the issue to the Board of Health’s attention during a...
Updates on the Hopkins School and Charleswood School construction projects were among the items on a packed School Committee agenda Thursday. On the Hopkins project, the School Committee approved a $101,404 contract with BCM Controls, a security vendor that will...
Hopkinton High School’s annual Science and Engineering Fair was held Wednesday. First place went to Aarush Naik and Dylan Striek for “The GlycoCharge: A Translational Spectrophotometric Apparatus for Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring in Type II Diabetics.” Taking second...
On Tuesday, the Elementary School Building Committee approved a contract with ADS Environmental Engineering, LLC (through Vertex) not to exceed $41,030 for soil testing and removal on the future Charleswood School site. Vertex project manager Chris Eberly noted that a...
A group of students at Hopkinton High School is hoping to spread awareness about the dangers of anemia, particularly among youth and teenage girls. Calling themselves CARE (Campaign for Anemia Research and Education), the four juniors are working through the HHS HOSA...
Fairfield University announced its dean’s list recipients for the fall semester, and it includes Hopkinton residents Luke Beaudet, Tyler Bois, Emma Canestrari, Derek Crowe, Nicholas Dieter, Frank Incutto, Gregory Kovacs, Michael Liptak, Robert Liptak, Luke Scanlon...
The conversation will continue at the Feb. 27 School Committee meeting about how to reduce the fiscal year 2026 school budget by $415,000 as requested by the town manager’s directive. The School Committee previously approved a budget of $67,190,630, and this change...
According to two estimators, the Charleswood School project is under budget at the 90% construction document phase by $8.7 million, averaging $116.2 million. That estimate includes building construction and roadway costs. The Elementary School Building Committee on...
A number of Hopkinton High School students successfully auditioned and were accepted to the 2025 Central District Massachusetts Music Educators Association Senior Festival, which took place Jan. 18 at Mechanics Hall in Worcester. Aritro Chatterjee (viola) and...
Ahead of an impending snowstorm, Hopkinton Public School officials have notified parents and caregivers about the potential for a snow day on Thursday. "At this time, I am not prepared to make a decision about whether school will be open tomorrow," Superintendent of...
During a brief Zoom meeting Thursday night, the School Committee voted to sponsor a warrant article for an adaptive playground to be located at Marathon School. With its current wording, the article would ask the town to “vote to raise and appropriate, transfer from...
At the University of Wisconsin, Cathryn Leighton (School of Business) was named to the dean’s list, Spencer Smith (School of Business) was named to the dean’s list and Prithvi Venkatesh (College of Engineering) was named to the dean’s honor list for the fall semester....
The School Committee on Thursday approved the competency determination (CD) for high school graduation proposal as presented by Principal Evan Bishop at the last meeting. The board also adopted a fiscal year 2026 budget of $67,190,630, a plan reviewed at four previous...
