Patrick Potochniak, 48, a longtime resident of Hopkinton and more recently of North Conway, New Hampshire, passed away Feb. 1, after a brief battle with a very aggressive form of cancer. A loving son, father, brother and uncle, Pat was a three-sport athlete at...
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Sayra P. Flynn
Sayra P. Flynn, 76, a former art teacher in Hopkinton, passed away on Jan. 30 after a long illness in the presence of her loved ones. Born in Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Joseph P. and Florence Dion. She graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Hearts...
Susan Jean Fontana
Susan Jean Fontana, 56, formerly of East Hartford, Connecticut, died after a brief illness on Jan. 5 at the Mission Hospital, Asheville, North Carolina. Born in Columbus, Ohio, on March 19, 1962, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Virginia (Gulli) Fontana....
Thelma Vorce Kerivan
Thelma C. (Brown) Vorce Kerivan, 94, of Hopkinton, died peacefully on Feb. 9 at the Kathleen Daniel Nursing Home in Framingham. Born in Natick, she was the daughter of the late Hazel (O’Leary) and Charles E. Brown. She was the wife of Frank L. Vorce, who died in 2003,...
Arrests/Police Log, Feb. 20 edition
ARRESTS January 25 12:04 p.m. On Main Street, Officers Panagiotis Hontzeas and Arthur Schofield arrested Elmer G. Yojero, 24, of 120 Quail St., Stratford, Connecticut, and charged him with unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. February 6 11:07 p.m. On Fruit Street,...
Local students receive college honors
The following Hopkinton residents were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at their respective colleges: At Tufts University, Prakalya Chandrasekar and Thomas Leone; At Connecticut College, Devon Rancourt, a Slavic studies and history major who received...
HHS sophomore selected to deliver TED Talk
Harrigan to discuss experience teaching girls in Africa A Hopkinton High School sophomore will be sharing some important lessons she learned about facing adversity and the value of an education, lessons she learned 4,000 miles away from home. Siena Harrigan will be...
HHS engineering students put to test with Invention Education
Hopkinton High School students are working to solve real-world problems in their community — all from their own classrooms. Engineering students at HHS are taking part in what is known as Invention Education, a process of learning that includes identifying a problem...
School Committee lauds Cavanaugh
First-year superintendent earns respect for work ethic, professionalism The Superintendent of the Hopkinton Public Schools received feedback on her performance for the first half of the school year during the Feb. 7 School Committee meeting. Dr. Carol Cavanaugh was...
Hamblet helps fuel Bentley hockey
The Bentley Falcons surged through a month and a half of hockey, earning points in 11 straight games and rattling off seven wins in a row in January/February, and Hopkinton’s Brendan Hamblet has become a key cog for the Division 1 program. The streak gave the Falcons...
Balanced Hillers hoops heads to tourney
After 19 seasons as the Hopkinton High School boys varsity basketball coach, Tom Keane experienced a “first” heading into the final week of the 2018-19 regular season: not a single player on his team was scoring more than 10 points per game on average. The Hillers,...
Sports Roundup: HHS trio honored at Girls and Women in Sport Day
Three Hopkinton student-athletes participated in Massachusetts Girls and Women in Sport Day on Feb. 1. Maggie Allen (soccer, track), Kelsey Carlson (unified basketball, unified track) and Camryn McDonald (field hockey, basketball, lacrosse) were recognized and...
Independent Thoughts: Flannery set to make clean break
It’s difficult to imagine Hopkins School without Ed Flannery roaming the halls, but the elementary school will be without its affable longtime custodian starting next month, as Flannery heads into retirement. “Eddie has been the backbone of Hopkins School since the...
Photo: Yoga for a cause
Hopkinton’s Shanti Yoga held a fundraiser on Feb. 10. The event featured a one-hour gentle flow class to benefit the 2019 Michael’s Miracle Boston Marathon run, which raises money for the Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center in Hopkinton. For more information or to...
Independent Thoughts: Let there be lights
Legacy Farms developer Roy MacDowell has seen the light — literally. MacDowell announced to the Planning Board on Jan. 28 that he would provide for a traffic light at the intersection of East Main Street and Legacy Farm Road. A Legacy Farms engineer had indicated that...
Positively Pucci: Sophomore from Hopkinton leads way for Wheaton
Anyone concerned that Mikayla Pucci might not be able to improve on her impressive freshman season at Wheaton College must not know the 5-foot-9 forward very well. With her work ethic, there was no way she would ever let up in her efforts to make herself a better...
HHS duo chosen to represent Boston at Japanese road race
February vacation is a good time to escape the snow and freezing temperatures with a visit to a place that offers more sun. For Hopkinton High School senior Amanda Hansen and junior Kayla McCann, a different opportunity presented itself: a visit to the Land of the...
School Committee sends budget to town
The Hopkinton School Committee certified the FY20 School Budget during its Jan. 17 meeting, sending the $48,059,950 budget to the town for final approval. Next year’s budget represents a $3,003,300 increase — 6.67 percent — over FY19. “It was really important to us to...
HHS sophomores’ self-portraits selected for regional exhibition
Two Hopkinton High School sophomores will have their photography work on display at the Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition, which started Jan. 22 and runs through Feb. 9 at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Sophomores Ceara Perry and Catherine Dacey,...
Hopkinton students on honor roll at Keefe Tech
Keefe Tech recently announced its Term 1 honor roll, and a number of Hopkinton residents were recognized for their performance in the classroom at the Framingham regional technical high school. Earning high honors were sophomore Gabrielle Buentello and freshman Jake...