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Concerns recently arose about teen activity in the downtown business district and what options are available for young adults to socialize after school and during the summer break. As first reported in HopNews on June 12, Bill Besozzi, the manager at CVS at 61 Main...
POLICE LOG June 13 12:08 a.m. Officer Nicholas Walker made checks of Ash Street property. 1:32 a.m. A caller reported a friend of hers threatened to go to her house and shoot it up. She requested an officer to sit at her house in case he did show up. Sergeant William...
Hopkinton police arrested a Whitinsville man suspected of dealing cocaine after an officer noticed an erratic driving pattern this past Friday morning. Calvin Hodge, 40, was charged with drug possession to distribute a Class B substance, operating under the influence...
ARRESTS June 9 1:39 a.m. Officers Brennan Grimley and Matthew Santoro conducted a motor vehicle stop on West Main Street and subsequently arrested a 40-year-old from Whitinsville and charged him with negligent operation of a motor vehicle, OUI liquor and possession to...
POLICE LOG May 30 12:58 a.m. Officer Brennan Grimley checked on a vehicle on South Street with a vehicle identification number (VIN) that didn’t match the license plate. The VIN came back as stolen, and the Boston Police Department was contacted. The vehicle was...
POLICE LOG May 23 12:22 a.m. Officer Nicholas Walker made checks of Hayden Rowe Street property. 12:44 a.m. Officer Nicholas Walker checked on a disabled motor vehicle on Church Place and found the driver awaiting AAA. 1:31 a.m. Officer Nicholas Walker made checks of...
ARRESTS May 21 1:24 a.m. Officer Shannon Beloin came across a disabled motor vehicle with severe damage on Hayden Rowe Street. Officer Tyler Staback responded as backup. A 54-year-old from Milford was arrested and charged with OUI liquor and miscellaneous motor...
This tale takes place during April school vacation in 1954. Things were a lot different then. The Fire Department’s three engines operated out of the old wooden fire station that would be razed in the summer of 1954 to make room for the new station. There were no...
ARRESTS May 9 5:36 p.m. A caller reported a female in the driver seat possibly passed out and the passenger acting suspiciously in a vehicle on West Main Street. Officers Matthew LaTour and Cody Normandin responded and arrested a 37-year-old from Leominster on a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQ5b0r5Q5U When constructions crews installed high curbing on the sidewalks along the western portion of Main Street last summer as part of the Main Street Construction Project, it generally was not well received. On Wednesday morning,...
ARRESTS May 6 6:37 p.m. Officers Cody Normandin and Matthew LaTour conducted a motor vehicle stop on South Street and arrested Weliton DaSilva Cassiano, 22, of 39 Eastview Road, Milford, on a warrant for revoked license and no insurance. [Editor's note: Hopkinton...
Former Hopkinton Deputy Police Chief John “Jay” Porter entered a plea of not guilty to three counts of child rape during a noon hearing at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn on Tuesday. The alleged incidents occurred nearly two decades ago, in September 2004 and June...
POLICE LOG April 25 12:55 a.m. Officer Brennan Grimley made checks of Legacy Farms property. 8:22 a.m. Officer Brittany Firth reported a school bus struck a mailbox on Smith Road. Sergeant William Burchard responded to assist and reported minor damage to the mailbox....
Hopkinton’s Annual Town Meeting kicked off Monday night at the middle school auditorium with a robust turnout of about 500 voters — well above the 128 needed for a quorum — unanimously approving the fiscal year 2024 operating budget, among other budgetary items, after...
Former Hopkinton Deputy Police Chief John “Jay” Porter, who was placed on administrative leave last year, has been charged with raping a student during his time as a school resource officer in town, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday....
ARRESTS April 20 1:25 a.m. Officer Nicholas Walker conducted a motor vehicle stop on Main Street and Sergeant William Burchard responded as backup. A 26-year-old Milford resident was arrested and charged with marked lanes violation, leaving scene of property damage,...
During Tuesday night’s Select Board meeting, representatives from the town’s emergency services and Eversource discussed plans for an emergency response test for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Wilson Street. The test is scheduled for Thursday, May 4,...
ARRESTS April 14 12:25 a.m. Officer Augusto Diaz conducted a motor vehicle stop on Hayden Rowe Street and subsequently arrested a 30-year-old from Shelburne Falls and charged him with OUI liquor and a rate of speed exceeding the posted limit. [Editor's note: Hopkinton...
[Editor's note: Hopkinton Independent policy for the arrests section is to remove the arrested individual's name after it has been posted for approximately one week.] POLICE LOG April 4 12:05 a.m. Officer Brennan Grimley checked on a vehicle with two occupants on...
Hopkinton Fire Chief Bill Miller on Tuesday announced that the Easter morning house fire at 69 Hayward Street has claimed a second victim. Judith MacNeill died Monday night, Miller said. She had been hospitalized since being evacuated from the home. Her husband, Don...
