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The Hopkinton school budget has been tentatively pared down by $780,316 from the amount supported by the School Committee and Select Board two months ago, in the wake of the economic upheaval from the COVID-19 crisis. The new proposed budget totals $51,206,402, for an...
Via a press release Friday, the town confirmed and added more details to what Town Manager Norman Khumalo stated at the May 6 Select Board meeting, that following approval of a $3 million MassWorks Infrastructure Program grant, the Main Street Corridor Project is...
Personnel from the Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project (CMMCP) are scheduled to spray areas of Hopkinton on June 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 and 30 and July 1. All dates are subject to change due to weather conditions, mosquito populations, mosquito virus...
A beautiful soul has taken flight. Our beloved mother, Carole A. Wells Doherty of Hanover, formerly of Hanson, originally from Savin Hill, returned home on May 18. Our tears were no match for the cheers in heaven. She had a limitless capacity to love paired with...
Arsen DerGarabedian, 81, a U.S. Air Force veteran, passed away peacefully at Milford Regional Medical Center on May 6 after residing in Hopkinton. He is survived by his beloved wife Kathleen DerGarabedian, daughter Sandra, stepdaughters Carolyn and Julie, as well as...
Ellery Taft, 93, of Hopkinton passed away on May 6. He was the husband of Madeline L. (Simmons) Taft, who died in 2009. Ellery was a WWII Navy veteran. He joined the Navy in 1945 and had his first job working in the kitchen. From there he worked at the former Draper...
Roger E. Corey, born March 16, 1921, and Dorothy (Haywood) Corey, born Dec. 22, 1916, first met in the spring of 1944 while both were stationed in West Palm Beach, Florida, with the Army Air Corps. Roger served as a radar specialist and Dorothy as a cryptographer. If...
The Hopkinton High School Visual Arts Department has posted its Honors Arts Exhibition online, after the live showing was canceled in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the HHS Visual Arts Department: The annual Hopkinton High School Honors Exhibition is a...
Camden Brown shows off his preschool graduation sign in front of his Hopkinton home. Camden's father, Bryan, a local mortgage broker, offered signs to all graduating preschoolers in town. They'll be distributed next week.
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 video or two to brighten your morning. Hopkinton resident Mary Jo Ondrechen, a professor at Northeastern University,...
Medical doctors and scientists from around the globe continue to work nonstop to understand, decipher and ultimately stop the COVID-19 virus. Hopkinton resident Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen, along with a group of colleagues and students from Northeastern University, recently...
Following guidance from the Hopkinton Health Department, all publicly accessible water fountains and bubblers in town are being kept off to reduce the risk for COVID-19 spread. Water-sewer manager Eric Carty said the fountains had been shut off for the winter and were...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and it seemed like things were “falling apart,” Shova Sharma did not want to sit on the sidelines. The Hopkinton resident, joined by just a handful of others at first, helped launch a do-it-yourself project to make masks for people at...
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 video or two to brighten your morning. Hopkinton's COVID-19 update for Wednesday shows the slight resurgence in cases...
By Linda Connelly Special to the Independent I ended my research project “Hopkinton 1918,” which ran in the previous issue of the Independent, concluding that the town’s Annual Report of 1918 indicated that only two lives were lost to the influenza epidemic of that...
Editor's note: This is the town of Hopkinton's COVID-19 update for May 20. COVID-19 Updates and Precautions May 20 update Previous updates and additional information and resources can be found here: https://coronavirus-hopkintonma.hub.arcgis.com While Town Hall and...
Sasha Sloan has always wanted to call music a career, and now the Hopkinton High School graduate is seeing the success she has dreamed about since she was a little girl. After a successful stint writing for other artists, Sloan, now 24, broke through as a performer in...
After seven years as an assistant principal at Hopkinton High, Josh Hanna said he is excited to take on the new challenge of leading Franklin High School as the new principal. “This was obviously a professional goal of mine, to get to the point where I could be the...
Hopkinton High School freshman Chris Delaney is about to embark on a very different high school experience than his friends. Selected in the eighth round of the United States Hockey League draft, Delaney is set to move to the Midwest in a year and take another step...
The Hopkinton Independent presents “A Slice of Hopkinton” photo contest, sponsored by Bill’s Pizzeria. Readers are encouraged to submit photos of people, places or things in Hopkinton. The Independent staff will select one winner for each issue. The winner will have...
