by Peter Thomas | Sep 6, 2024 | Public Safety
On August 15, 2024, the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission suspended former Hopkinton Police Sergeant and now Milford Police Officer Timothy Brennan’s certification, effectively forcing him from duty. Unable to work as a law...
by Peter Thomas | Sep 4, 2024 | News, Real Estate
On August 6, 2024, Governor Maura Healey signed into law legislation intended to tackle what she calls “the state’s greatest challenge” – housing costs. The governor’s office claims the law will create, preserve or rehabilitate more than...
by Peter Thomas | Aug 28, 2024 | Business
Tonight, the Hopkinton Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) will hear an application for a zoning variance to allow the construction of a country store and gas station at the intersection of School and West Main streets. The subject property was the location of...
by Peter Thomas | Aug 27, 2024 | News
Buried in the Select Board’s agenda packet for Tuesday, August 27, is the Quarterly Deposit & Investment Report for the period ending 6/30/2024, authored by Town Treasurer Charles J. Paquet and delivered by Town CFO Kyla Lapierre. Paquet paints a rosy...
by Peter Thomas | Jul 25, 2024 | Nature
And now for our summer dispatch, a bit further afield than Hopkinton… While many Hopkintonians escaped the heat wave and headed for the Cape, we took a few days off to explore beautiful Iceland, an island that is comprised almost entirely of basalt, a type of...