Work on Fruit Street bridges will force temporary closures Tuesday/Wednesday

Dec 2024 20

Main Street Corridor Project update: Undergrounding of services progresses

The town’s latest Main Street Corridor Project update released Friday shared that the transfer of services from the existing overhead systems to the new underground systems continues to make progress. Crown Castle has completed its work, and as of Dec. 16,...

Dec 2024 19

Conservation Commission denies last-minute request to release foundations to The Trails

https://www.youtube.com/live/fauI15bUNzo Due to a last-minute filing by the owners of The Trails development project, the Conservation Commission Tuesday night declined to approve the release of three new foundations. “I don’t think myself or the commission members...

Dec 2024 18

Select Board votes to promote van Raalten to deputy chief, hears update on FY 26 budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3FsL6CptxI Hopkinton Police Chief Joseph Bennett and Lt. Scott van Raalten appeared before the Select Board Tuesday as van Raalten was appointed as the town’s new deputy police chief. Before the proceeding began, Select Board chair...

Dec 2024 18

Arrests/Police Log, Dec. 18 edition

ARRESTS December 15 10:34 p.m. Sergeant Aaron O’Neil and Officer Robert Ekross came across a motor vehicle crash and subsequently arrested a 76-year-old resident of Walcott Valley Drive in Hopkinton and charged her with OUI liquor. [Editor’s note: The Hopkinton...

Dec 2024 17

Planning Board raises concerns with parking emissions at proposed Hopkinton Drug redevelopment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbbLDrAMNn4 The Planning Board at its meeting Monday night voted unanimously to continue the hearing for Main Street Crossing, the proposed multifamily mixed-use development at the location of Hopkinton Drug, after voicing concerns...

Dec 2024 16

Select Board member LaFreniere arraigned on DUI charge

Select Board vice chair Mary Jo LaFreniere was arraigned Monday in Framingham District Court on a charge of driving under the influence. She was arrested after leaving TJ's Food and Spirits, a bar on the Hopkinton-Ashland line, Sunday night. "It happened,"...