by Peter Thomas | Oct 11, 2023 | Opinion
A few simple questions for Select Board Chair Muriel Kramer: in the past 12 months, how many complaints did the Select Board receive of Hopkinton Police Officers behaving badly? Is there a public outcry for police reform that I haven’t heard? What is she seeing from...
by Peter Thomas | Aug 10, 2023 | Opinion, Politics
I was recently lent a copy of John Gould’s New England Town Meeting: Safeguard of Democracy. Published in 1940, it is one of the earliest books – if not the first – to document the Town Meeting format, which is practiced in New England but almost...
by Peter Thomas | Aug 7, 2023 | People
And now for something a bit further afield than Hopkinton… As our readers know, this July we took a break from the local news to travel through France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Guernsey, Spain and Iceland. Although we’ve been to some of the big cities in...
by Peter Thomas | Jun 17, 2023 | Opinion, Politics
On Friday, June 16, HopNews parent company Arch Publishing received a demand letter from lawyers representing the Hopkinton Housing Authority. In the letter, Attorney John Tocci alleged that HopNews dispatched “three young reporters to a public HHA...
by Peter Thomas | May 30, 2023 | People, Sports
Readers, I’ve been dying to tell you this story. Timing – and his parents’ humility – have kept Hopkinton Middle School’s William Recupero from these pages. But I am happy to say that today is the day. There’s talent, and then there’s extraordinary, out...
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