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Good morning, Hopkinton! Welcome to the daily update we call Hopkinton Today — a quick recap of yesterday’s news, highlights of what’s on tap, and a photo and video of the day. The Planning Board at its Monday night meeting voted 6-3 to remove a 1992 condition that...
The Hopkinton High School swim team posted a 96-67 victory over King Philip on Friday at Milford High School.
Hopkinton Water-Sewer Manager Eric Carty announced Monday that a contractor will be cleaning and inspecting the town's three water storage tanks over the next three days. During this process, there could be some discoloration as the minerals on the inside of the tank...
Good morning, Hopkinton! Welcome to the daily update we call Hopkinton Today — a quick recap of yesterday’s news, highlights of what’s on tap, and a photo and video of the day. At a brief public hearing Thursday night, the Community Preservation Committee approved...
The annual lighting of the menorah to celebrate the start of Hanukkah took place Sunday evening at the Town Common. The event consisted of singing, praying and the lighting of the ornamental menorah.
[Editor's note: This letter is in response to the Year in Review column that included a summary of the School Committee controversy earlier this year.] Does it disturb only me that a local paper puts in print assumptions based on hearsay, statements the editor, upon...
As part of the Main Street Corridor Project this week, the eastbound detour from Grove Street to Maple Street to Hayden Rowe Street and back to Main Street will be used on an as-needed basis. Project-wide, the contractor will patch around structures and do a final...
Hopkinton residents Joseph Baldiga and David Fine, both attorneys at Mirick O’Connell, recently were selected to the 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice...
Friends of Hopkinton held a Breakfast with Santa Claus fundraiser on Saturday at The Spoon. Donations were collected for Morgan Woodman, who is running the Boston Marathon on behalf of the organization. There will be a second chance to catch Santa on Sunday from 9...
Doris Davis, 95, passed away Dec. 15 at home. She was the wife of Ray Davis, to whom she was married for 54 years. Born in Everett, she was the daughter of the late Frederick and Mildred (Dulong) Hemeon. Doris worked for many years as an assembler for Dennison...
Stephen Alfred Burke, 86, died peacefully on Dec. 15 after a long illness. He is predeceased by his twin brother, Daniel Patrick Burke, and survived by his loving and devoted wife of 61 years, Mary Jo, and his sister, Barbara Gonsor. Steve and Mary Jo enjoyed a long...
At a brief public hearing Thursday night, the Community Preservation Committee approved several applications for fiscal year 2024 funding via the Community Preservation Act, including a $1 million proposal for the redesign of Pyne Field to include a cricket pitch....
Continued discussion about the proposed fiscal year 2024 budget and a presentation about a climate action strategy were topics at the School Committee’s last meeting of 2022 on Thursday. Director of Finance Susan Rothermich talked once again about a proposed FY24 net...
At its hour-long meeting Thursday night, the Parks & Recreation Commission discussed its applications for funding before the Community Preservation Committee that met later that evening, noting the positive momentum for a cricket pitch at a reconfigured Pyne...
Elementary School Building Committee members on Tuesday looked at planning concepts for possible Grades 2-3 and Grades 2-3-4 buildings on Elm Street and Hayden Rowe as part of their work related to a potential replacement for Elmwood School. Robert Bell, the principal...
Good morning, Hopkinton! Welcome to the daily update we call Hopkinton Today — a quick recap of yesterday’s news, highlights of what’s on tap, and a photo and video of the day. The Hopkinton High School wrestling team hosted the annual Coaches vs. Cancer match vs....
The Hopkinton Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the Holiday Stroll Passport Challenge during a ceremony at UniBank on Thursday. The raffle winners are Megan Cox, Cheryl Kayan, Jennifer Jones, Mary Myers, Ava Gronemeyer, Patrick Monahan, Kenneth Chrabasz,...
Within an hour of registration opening, spots for Hopkinton’s inaugural “It’s a Puzzler” competition sold out. Five more sports were added, and the event quickly sold out again. It’s a Puzzler is a team jigsaw puzzle competition. Teams of between two and five...
I ride off on my bike with a book to return to the library. I head up Pike Street to Church Street, passing Callanan Funeral Home on the left and St. John’s Church and Seymour Woods’ Funeral Home on the right before arriving at the library, on the right. I give my...
“Since I was a kid, anytime I picked something up I wanted to take it apart, fix it and put it back together,” says Steve Labriola, the owner of Lab of All Trades. “My relatives began to hand me their broken toasters, microwaves and blenders and ask, ‘Can you look at...
