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News and Information for the Town of Hopkinton
March 2008 - Posts
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BY KRISTEN SENZ Having risen from the ashes of a blatant arson fire set early last year, the Slusser Senior Center in Hopkinton is now almost complete. “We anticipate that the downstairs will be open in mid- April,” said Justin La Vigne, the Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY With two new members and a new chairman, the Hopkinton Board of Selectmen is off and running with several projects already in the works. At the Monday, March 24, board meeting, selectmen assigned new committee posts for the upcoming year. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Hopkinton residents weren’t in a cost-cutting mood during the annual Town Meeting, as voters agreed to add money to the Recreation Department and Public Works budgets. One item in question in the weeks leading up to the Saturday, Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Residents filled about half of Hopkinton High School’s gymnasium during the annual School District Meeting, passing all of the articles after about a three-hour discussion. The Saturday, March 8, meeting went by with only a small Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY When it came time to vote on two major governmental policy changes, Hopkinton residents just said, “No.” Citizen-petitioned articles to move from five to three members on the Board of Selectmen and changing to the town manager Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Hopkinton’s three contested town and school races were decided in the voting booth, as residents chose two new selectmen, two School Board members and a new school treasurer. The School Board race was a log jam, with seven candidates Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY One of the heated races on the ballot leading up to Election Day came on the school side of the ballot, where a citizen-petitioned Article 2 asked if voters would be in favor of switching to SB2, or official ballot form of voting. The Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY You won’t see Hopkinton and John Stark fans rooting for the same team during basketball games. During the three-day FIRST robotics competition, however, fans were rooting for Oz-Ram, a team made up of students from both high schools. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Before voting on whether to decrease their town’s Board of Selectmen from five members to three, Hopkinton residents had the opportunity to hear the pros and cons of the citizen-petitioned warrant article that will be on the March Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Hopkinton School Board candidates voiced their opinions on everything from rising education costs to intelligent design – a theory that seeks to fundamentally redefine science to accept supernatural explanations being taught in Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY HOPKINTON – The only warrant on the Hopkinton School District Election Day ballot focuses on a change in the voting process. A petitioned warrant article on the Tuesday, March 11, ballot asks voters to decide if they are in favor Read More...
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