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While the Boston Marathon won’t be held until September, the town and race organizers continue to work together to benefit the region. Hopkinton resident Carolyn Jackson is the CEO of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, and she reached out to the Select Board to see...
Main Street project takes next steps The Select Board voted Feb. 25 to approve sending offer letters to abutters of the Main Street Corridor Project. The letters, which were slated to be sent out in late February, include the amount of compensation abutters will...
Hopkinton Police Department set to add trio of officers The Hopkinton Police Department presented three candidates to the Select Board at its Jan. 30 meeting. The town has budgeted for two positions, and town manager Norman Khumalo told the board that the third...
Special Town Election set for Feb. 3 A Special Town Election is set for Monday, Feb. 3, at Hopkinton Middle School’s Brown Gym to vote on debt exclusions for the three capital articles related to the school expansion projects that passed at Special Town Meeting on...
Scouts honored Hopkinton K9 Titan lauded for rescuing woman The Hopkinton Police Department’s K9, Titan, was commended at the Jan. 7 Select Board meeting for his work rescuing a woman in Milford. Hopkinton Police Chief Edward Lee shared a letter from his counterpart...
Military history essay contest The Association of the United States Army is joining with local sponsors Phipps Insurance Agency and UniBank to hold a Military History Essay Contest for high school students who are residents of Hopkinton. Winners will receive...
Marathon bibs awarded to local non-profits The Boston Marathon has become a major fundraising event for Hopkinton organizations, and 38 non-profits applied for an invitational entry to the 2020 race. At its Dec. 3 meeting, the Select Board worked to determine which...
Legacy Farms residents push for early street acceptance Residents of Legacy Farms North, frustrated with the lack of progress on the bus stop issue in their community, sought to take advantage of the Dec. 9 Special Town Meeting by pushing to have Legacy Farms Road...
Hopkinton receives AAA credit rating The Town of Hopkinton announced earlier this month that Standard and Poor’s assigned its highest credit rating, AAA, to its general obligation bonds to be used for various municipal purposes. The Triple-A bond rating, as designated...
MassDOT in Hopkinton Oct. 30 to discuss I-495/I-90 interchange The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will host a meeting at the Marathon Elementary School cafeteria on Wednesday, Oct. 30, from 4:30-8:30 p.m. to discuss the I-495/I-90 Interchange...
Fire Department to add staff after FEMA grant The Hopkinton Fire Department was award a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worth $548,000, the town announced in an Oct. 8 press release. The three-year grant, which comes from FEMA’s Staffing for...
Hearing scheduled for Gibb statue The Historic District Commission will hold a public hearing regarding the Bobbi Gibb Marathon Sculpture Project on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Senior Center. Tom Carey, who owns the building at 1 Main St. in the center of town, has...
Police officers OK’d for retirement The saga of the three Hopkinton police officers who went on leave at the same time in 2017 with work-related injuries appears to be nearing an end, as the Middlesex County Retirement Board approved all three for accidental...
Town, state continue to deal with EEE threat Aerial spraying of insecticide was conducted in late August after the state designated Hopkinton and several other area communities at critical risk for the mosquito-borne virus Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). According...
Select Board backs Futures Act to encourage cooperation from Eversource Town officials previously have expressed numerous frustrations dealing with Eversource, which owns the LNG plant on Wilson Street. Among the town’s concerns, a “thermal anomaly” occurred in one of...
Pair of officers drop appeals vs. town, police chief Two of the three Hopkinton police officers who sued the town and Police Chief Edward Lee after Lee suspended their licenses to carry guns had their cases dismissed at their request while town officials worked on...
