BY MATT SCHOOLEY Harold Martin School teachers, students and faculty admittedly like to celebrate, and they recently had 50 reasons. To kick off the Hopkinton school’s 50th anniversary, school officials held festivities on Monday, Sept. 15, giving students a chance to meet some special guests. Among them were former ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYOn Interstate 89, drivers zoom by with cellular phones, GPS navigators and DVD players installed in their cars. Less than a minute off that highway sits a building where things are a little different. The New Hampshire Antiquarian Society in Hopkinton houses pieces of the town’s history, and has done so for nearly 150 years ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Looking down from the choir balcony in Hopkinton’s First Congregational Church, Ruth White recalls the many changes that have taken place over the years, from the paint on the walls to the chandelier, and to friends who have come and gone. A lot is different then it was when White became a member of the church in the late ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY It might be an understatement to refer to Goffstown’s Ben and Jane Hampton as “patriotic” Americans. Both have traced their roots back to Revolutionary War soldiers, visited all but one of the major Civil War battlefields and, on Thursday, July 4, the two were asked to make a presentation at Hopkinton’s ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY It might be an understatement to refer to Goffstown’s Ben and Jane Hampton as “patriotic” Americans. Both have traced their roots back to Revolutionary War soldiers, visited all but one of the major Civil War battlefields and, on Thursday, July 4, the two were asked to make a presentation at Hopkinton’s ...