BY MATT SCHOOLEY Hopkinton taxpayers won’t see an increase in the tax rate for 2007. While town and school tax rates remained level, the county tax increased slightly. Overall, the Hopkinton tax rate for 2006 and 2007 remained the same at $21.05 per $1,000 assessed property valuation. A home assessed at $300,000, for example, would see a ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Beginning in September, the town of Hopkinton will begin to correct its own mistakes by revaluating homeowners’ property in town due to a software problem regarding last year’s tax bills. Hopkinton attempted to upgrade its homeowners’ data to new software without going through the process of visiting each home ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORNew St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Hopkinton rector, the Rev. Kevin Nichols, led the Hopkinton Town Meeting with a prayer, encouraging residents and town officials to break down the walls between them. In his opening comments, Selectman George Langwasser expressed a similar goal. “Let’s leave here as ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORVoters chose not to cut the Hopkinton Recreation Department in the name of savings at Town Meeting. This comes despite the fact that residents spoke loud and clear on Election Day, when they voted selectmen Chairman Louise Carr out and brought in two members who have been outspoken against increased taxes. At Town Meeting, ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR School district treasurer Arnold Coda and several other residents voiced displeasure with what they termed excessive spending by selectmen and the school board. At the town and school district budget hearing on Jan. 24, roughly 200 Hopkinton citizens lined the bleachers at Hopkinton High School’s ...

Little Nature Museum may be forced to relocateBY RYAN O’CONNOREric and Sue Leadbeater, owners of Gould Hill Orchards, aren’t the only ones who may be affected by the town of Hopkinton’s inability to find a partner with when to purchase the land. Sandra Martin, who founded the nonprofit Little Nature Museum in 1954, said she ...

By Ryan O’Connor Staff Writer Donald Gleason gasped for air when he opened his latest tax bill. His four-room, 720-square-foot home jumped in assessed value from $114,600 to $210,700. Even though he is receiving a $500 veterans tax credit and $395 in elderly tax exemptions, the 78-year-old Hopkinton resident stared blankly at a ...