Hopkinton High School Seniors Parade – ​NEW UPDATE
Hopkinton residents should get out to see the ​FIRST-EVER ROLLING GRADUATION PARADE!

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020
Starting at 1 p.m. over 300 cars will travel:

● Right out of the High School onto Hayden Rowe Street
● Left at the light onto Chestnut
● Left onto Ash (with another left to stay on Ash) up to Main St.
● Left onto Main Street through downtown.
● Right onto Wood Street
● Left onto Elm Street
● Left onto West Main Street
● Right onto Pleasant Street
● Right onto Hayden Rowe Street

A few safety reminders: Please remember that after the event there should be no congregating of students. Spectators should remember to wear your masks and keep 6 feet of social distancing; remember that the majority of illness is spread through asymptomatic and presymptomatic contact. Please be cautious around the moving vehicles.

Parks/fields/playgrounds -​ NEW UPDATE
Under Phase 1 of Massachusetts Reopening Plan, town athletic fields are now open under the following guidelines:

●  Users should sanitize hands before and after play, not share equipment, and clean and wipe down equipment.
●  When engaged in play, users should avoid touching other users’ equipment in separate areas.
●  Users waiting to utilize a section or area of the field should wait outside the field of play until previous users have vacated the facility to ensure proper social distancing and prevent accidental contact of other users’ equipment.
●  Users should not engage in pickup games, organized games or tournaments.
●  Families living in the same residence may engage in field and park activities such as catch, Frisbee, picnics without face coverings and the use of social distancing if they can do so without engaging persons outside of their immediate family.

These fields include: Fruit Street athletic fields, Carrigan and EMC baseball fields, Daniel Shays, Emerald Hills, Pyne Field and Reed Park.

Playgrounds remain closed until further notice.

The school fields are to stay closed for the remainder of the school year. School fields will reopen, with limitations, after the last day of school, June 17.

Hopkinton Public Library – ​NEW UPDATE
We have been receiving many questions about when we will begin accepting returned items and offering curbside checkouts of library materials. These services will be at the top of our list once staff are back in the library building on a regular basis. However, planning may take some time. We do not anticipate being able to circulate physical items or accept returns until ​at least​ mid to late June.

If you have library materials at home, there is ​no need to worry about fines​! Due dates have automatically been extended to July 1 for anything that was due in mid-March or later. We will continue to extend due dates if needed. We will forgive any overdue fines that have accrued on returned materials for several weeks after we reopen the book drop.

In the meantime, we are still providing the same services that we have been offering throughout the building closure: assistance by chat, phone and e-mail; helpful resources through social media and on our website; electronic books, audiobooks, movies, magazines and newspapers; virtual events and presentations; and more.

If you have questions or need help, please feel free to reach out:

●  E-mail us at ​hopkintonlibrary@hopkintonma.gov​.
●  Leave a voicemail at 508-497-9777 and we will call you back as soon as we can.
●  Chat with a librarian from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday by going to ​our website​ and clicking the blue “speech bubble” icon near the top of the page.

We will share information about changes in library services in these townwide updates, as well as via our ​website​, ​Facebook wall​, ​Twitter page​ and ​eNewsletter​.