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Community liaisons needed for environmental initiative

The town is seeking residents interested in helping out with a new green initiative that will kick off early next year.

Called the Hopkinton Resilient Lands Initiative, the program seeks to hire community liaisons to help select the sites for and design two green infrastructure installations in town. The town hopes to put one along Main Street and the other on public land near Legacy Farms.

Lucy Perkins, director of climate resilience for Siler Climate Consulting, said the installations will be “nature-based solutions” intended to help with flood mitigation and other public health goals. Siler has been contracted by the town to help run the Resilient Lands Initiative.

Perkins explained the program hopes to attract applicants with ties to the town’s South Asian and Chinese communities and older residents.

Added Perkins: “We’re looking for folks that have strong connections in the mapped environmental justice area.”

Community liaisons will be expected to participate in quarterly meetings once the program begins in January. There are additional duties, including outreach, engagement and providing feedback. Those interested must submit an interest form online. While the original submission window was set for Nov. 21, the town has allowed applications to be submitted on a rolling basis until January.

The initiative is expected to take a year or more from start to finish, and liaisons will be compensated for their time. “Their knowledge, their time and their labor in this work is really valuable,” Perkins said.

Perkins added that the state has taken notice of Hopkinton’s approach to this initiative. “This feels like a uniquely community-driven process around stormwater mitigation and flood management,” she said.

— NICK SCHOFIELD

Latest News

The School Committee on Thursday met with members of the Special Education Parent Advisory Council to hear more about the organization and its work in the community.

Hopkinton Public Schools departments outlined their preliminary budget requests for fiscal year 2027 for the School Committee on Thursday.

A.F. Amorello & Sons will be on site this week to finish winter cleanup on Main Street following last week’s paving.

Town meetings tonight include the Appropriation Committee (5) and Zoning Advisory Committee (7).

Photo of the Day

Some of the Hopkinton High School athletes who will be playing sports in college took part in a signing day Friday at HHS. They are (back, from left) Ryan Morin (UMass track and field) and Mason Barros (Sacred Heart track and field), and (from, from left) Kendall Tom (Bentley lacrosse) and Caroline Ozmun (Assumption softball).

PHOTO/JOHN CARDILLO