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Hopkinton Independent
Volume 17 Number 5
March 24, 2016
Groundbreaking for the new library
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Hopkinton, MA: A Special Place to
Start
by Michelle Murdock
So what does make Hopkinton special? We know it’s special to the residents of
Hopkinton, many of whom watch, volunteer or run the marathon year after year, but
what about some of the now well-known runners who came here to begin their 26.2 mile
journey to the finish line on Boylston Street; what do they think?
Amby Burfoot, Runner’s World Editor and 1968 Boston Marathon winner, recalled his
first time in Hopkinton. It was the spring of 1965 when Burfoot was 18-years-old and a
freshman at Wesleyan University. He skipped out on his track practice and had his father
drive him to Hopkinton to run Boston. His memory of that day includes “a light dusting
of snow on the forsythia,” the quaintness of the town, and seeing Johnny Kelley the Elder
and the top Japanese runners in their “gleaming white track suits with the red rising sun”
warming up on the Town Common.
But what was most noticeable to Burfoot was the attitude of the people; “warm and
welcoming, the carnival-type atmosphere on the common, the joyous mid-summer
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attitude.”
Coloring the Marathon
Purple: Warren
Running Boston to
Raise Money and
Awareness for Epilepsy
by Jean Cann
Despite the fact that she was recovering
from a broken collarbone, hadn’t run for
weeks, and only had 10 weeks left to train,
Hopkinton’s Eileen Warren could not
turn down the chance to run the Boston
Marathon for the Epilepsy Foundation of
New England with an official bib number.
Warren, 57, was diagnosed with epilepsy
in her early 30s and gave up running for
years until she learned to manage the
symptoms. Back to running again, she has
lobbied the B.A.A. to try to get the Epilepsy
Foundation recognized as an official
charity for the Boston Marathon. While
she hasn’t yet succeeded with that goal,
she is getting the chance to run officially
and raise funds and awareness for epilepsy
because of the generous donation of a bib
number by a victim of the bombings at the
Boston Marathon finish line in 2013.
Alissa Ward, a spectator at the Boston
finish in 2013, suffered a traumatic brain
injury and needed nearly 200 stitches to
close her wounds. She received two bib
YMCA – Behind the
Numbers
by Erica Brown
The MetroWest YMCA is kicking off its
2016 Annual Campaign with a few events
for residents of the area to attend in order to
better understand all the YMCA provides
for the communities of Hopkinton,
Holliston, and Ashland.
The MetroWest YMCA Family
Outdoor Center located at 45 East Street
in Hopkinton plays a big role in servicing
the communities, and in 2015, the Y gave
over $135,000 in financial aid and services
for programs held at the center and in
the community to residents in need. The
YMCA hopes to provide more assistance
to residents this year. Services such as:
 Weekly Youth Development
classes focusing on skills and the
concept of growing together.
 The High Flight program where
teens challenge themselves,
gain a mentor, and build new
confidence.
 Middle School Nights and
Holliston Fridays where middle
school students have a safe space
to engage in fun activities under
the supervision of engaging
leaders.
continued on page 9
Turning over the first shovels of dirt for the new library were Permanent
Building Committee Chairman Dan McIntyre, Board of Selectmen
Chairman Ben Palleiko, Hopkinton Public Library Foundation Director
Laura Barry, Mary Ann Cluggish, chairman of the Massachusetts Board
of Library Commissioners, State Sen. Karen Spilka, Architect Stewart
Roberts, Library Director Rownak Hussain, CTA Construction Executive
staff photo
Paul DuRoss and Town Manager Norman Khumalo.
by Cathy Buday
The Hopkinton Public Library’s muchanticipated expansion and renovation is
officially underway.
A March 11 groundbreaking drew more
than 100 community members, library
supporters and local and state officials. The
ceremony at Main and Church streets – the
library’s home for more than 120 years -kicked off about 16 months of construction.
Board of Selectmen Chairman Ben
Palleiko said the finished library will be
“a gift to ourselves and our future” and
praised now-retired Library Director
Rownak Hussain for her “phenomenal
leadership” in moving the project forward.
Palleiko predicted that the library will
become the intellectual heart of Hopkinton.
“The greatest risk is falling prey to a
single point of view,” he said. “The library
promises breadth and depth of information
that lets us draw our own conclusions.”
State Sen. Karen Spilka presented
Hussain with a special citation from the
state. She recalled many happy visits to
her childhood library. “I remember sitting
for hours in my living room chair, going
to all those faraway places that only books
can take you to,” Spilka said.
Mary Ann Cluggish, chairman of
the Massachusetts Board of Library
Commissioners,
pointed
out
that
Massachusetts libraries have more visitors
each year than the attendance at all the
Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins
games combined. She predicted that once
the library is finished, “we’ll all be saying
we can’t believe how fabulous it is…and
a few of us may be asking why we waited
so long.”
When completed in the summer of
2017, the new, three-level library building
will be state-of-the-art, accessible and
environmentally friendly, yet maintain
the historic character of the original
Library. It will provide space for
community gatherings, a 1,200-square-foot
multipurpose room, dedicated rooms for
fiction and reference materials, a learning
lab for adults and students, and spacious,
age-appropriate Children’s and Young
Adult sections.
Add your two feet to our square feet!
Hopkinton Public Library had its official
groundbreaking for the renovation and
expansion on Friday, March 11. The
library will be closed at 13 Main Street
for the duration of the construction. We
are open with full services at 65 South
Street (up the hill from Price Chopper).
All library hours remain the same. We
continue to purchase new items, send and
accept requests from inter-library loan,
have children’s story-times and provide
museum passes. Come check us out!
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FROM THE EDITORS
Sunshine Week
This past week was National Sunshine Week which encourages
transparency in all areas of government. Here in Massachusetts,
Governor Baker recently signed into law a bill to strength the Freedom
of Information Act, along with the timely and less expensive responses
to citizen requests. The Independent found the time issue and the cost
required to gather information from the School Department in the issue
of former Superintendent Landsman was insurmountable. We applaud the
legislature and Governor for this good step. Here, in town, it is also difficult
to get information, such as the minutes of the selectmen’s minutes. They
dutifully accept them at meetings but they don’t seem to make it to the
website. One must go down personally and make a copy. This not a part of
transparency, in our view. Citizens should not have to fight to see public
records concerning their tax dollars.
“DebateTakeaway:
Incivility Rules
Stephen Nuno:The GOP is Changing
Standards of Civility
The GOP debates have
descended into afternoon talk
show brawls with rowdy
audiences egging their
prospective candidates on to
cast personal insults at their
challengers.”
“Trump Supporter Punches
Protester In Face at NC Rally
Violence appears to be a recurring
theme at the Republican presidential
front-runner’s events.”
Laura Barron-Lopez
The Huffington Post
“...reporting
on the protests
at the Trump Utah rally...”
A needed professional
Following on the heels of the Speak Out by Finley Perry, we had
suggested last year that there needed to be a better picture of the future.
Perhaps part of the answer should be a person whose professional job it
is to find and keep businesses in town should be hired, rather than all the
administrative help requested.
MESSAGE FROM THE TOWN
CLERK’S OFFICE
This is a reminder for all residents who own dogs. The deadline for registering dogs at
the rate of $10 for spayed female/neutered male and $15 for female/male dogs is March
31. All dogs are required to be registered each year before April 1. Under Massachusetts
General Law (MGL), Ch. 40, §137 and Chapter 62 of the Town Bylaws, it is required that
all dogs six months or older, owned or kept in the Town of Hopkinton must be licensed
by April 1 each year. Licensing of all dogs requires a rabies certificate showing that the
owner’s dog(s) have received their rabies shot. You may call our office to confirm rabies
expiration date in our files prior to sending payment. After April 1, there is a late fee of
$25; On May 1 we will report to the Animal Control Officer a list of dogs who are not
licensed. The Animal Control Officer is able to issue citations to those owners whose
dogs are still unlicensed. The delinquent owners will then be responsible for the license
fee, late fee and any citations.
The Annual Street Listing was also due in the Town Clerk’s Office. Failure to respond
to Annual Street Listing shall result in removal from the active voter list. Inactive voters
are required to complete Affirmation Forms at polls prior to being allowed to vote. Voters
can avoid additional lines and wasted time by returning their Annual Street List as soon
as possible.
I would also like to inform voters of the change to the entrance to our polling location.
To promote student safety, the entrance to the polls is the back entrance to the Middle
School gym. During the recent Presidential Primary Election, it was noted that voters
were not utilizing the lower parking lot. We have purchased a flag/banner to highlight the
entrance and wish to encourage you to park in the back/lower parking lot.
Please call the Town Clerk’s Office at 508-497-9710 or email me at townclerk@
hopkintonma.gov with any questions and for more information regarding dog licensing.
As always, the Town Clerk’s Office is committed to excellent customer service and
upholding the values of open government by providing access to the Town’s public
records.
Brenda McCann
Acting Town Clerk
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C 2016
03/24
“the gop economic ‘trickle-down’ theory sure
didn’t work, but the ‘trickle-down’ of incivility
is working all too well.”
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stop bullies
My heart goes out to John Coutinho and
his kids and all those who were abused by
local bullies, as they sacrificed their time
as volunteers to improve a community that
the eyes of our nation and beyond look to
during the Marathon.
I realize that we cannot change or fix
another’s behavior. I commend you for
revealing this cowardly act. Revealing the
crisis is the first step to stop the violence.
A bully is a coward. A coward wants
to surround himself/herself with sameminded thoughtless people. They create a
problem and it becomes a focus for their
madness. They are confused. A bully is
trained. A bully is snared by other bullies
and they cultivate a terror whenever they
can find a victim. They start out as children
who are trained to be bullies and become
seniors who are blinded by a vacant stare
of jealousy. Bullies are the minority.
Don’t give up on Hopkinton. Stay away
from negativity that has formed a darkness.
My grandfather escaped tyranny during the
bullying era of Hitler. He had to start over
and he settled in East Cambridge, MA. He
pushed a vegetable and fish cart through
the streets of the neighborhood. He helped
his neighbors. Later, his sons had a meat
market and produce store. They brought
recycled fruit boxes loaded with fresh food
to their neighbors in the church and in the
community. Their church was established
primarily for Italian immigrants.
The neighborhood was a melody of
mixed cultures. They helped one another
daily and especially during a family
crisis and/or holidays. My uncles knew
which families needed boots or skates or
sweatshirts for a growing brood. They
took care of each other. They made notes
to assure they remembered.
My daughter-in-law started Neighbor
Brigade, before she passed on. She wanted
to give back to a community of people
who helped our family during a crisis. She
created a legacy.
I applaud you for training your kids not to
cower in the face of evil. Stay in the light,
Mr. Coutinho.
A coward needs to go inside and seek the
inner me to identify the enemy. A coward
has to take responsibility for his/her own
actions.
I moved to Hopkinton when my mother
(who I had been figuratively velcroed to
since inception) passed on. My youngest
uncle, a brother-in-law, a cousin, a nephew
all left within a few months. I kept my
heart on peace and not on much else to
move through my pain.
My neighbors on Downey Place had no
clue as to what was going on in my heart.
Women came and shoveled the terraced
stairs. Some came with food. Others
with huge plants. One always greeted
me with a cheery hello. The man at the
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March 24, 2016
Whither Hopkinton 2016
by Finley Perry
As we approach town meeting season
and local elections -- and our fourth century
as a town -- there is a certain uncertainty
in the air. The future of EMC is unclear.
Our property tax burden continues to
grow. Schools are expanding. Major new
development is happening at both ends
of town, while downtown is experiencing
change of its own.
Why is it that things seem to keep
surprising us? Perhaps it’s no more
complicated than we aren’t looking – As
a community, we don’t typically have our
eyes on the road ahead.
Not that that’s unusual. Hopkinton is
no different than many other suburban
residential communities. Family life,
education, property values, and attractive
countryside are primary influencers of
community attitudes. Looking ahead
-- planning -- isn’t a thing foremost in
people’s minds. If anything, holding on to
the status quo is. We often look longingly
in the rear-view mirror.
So, how are we doing? Over the past 35
years, despite the massive expansion of the
town’s primary employer, EMC, and the
building of Elmwood Park, development in
town has been overwhelmingly residential
– growing from less than 70 percent of
total town valuation in 1980 to closer to 85
percent today.
Residential property values are high and
growing higher thanks to our location and
our excellent school system. So are tax
rates -- rising as they have from roughly 1
percent of assessed value in the early ‘90’s
to more than 1.8 percent today. Community
services are costly; and larger and wealthier
populations require more and better ones.
It is generally assumed that economic
growth is a positive goal, offsetting
residential tax bills and otherwise
contributing community vitality in the
form of shops, restaurants, and services.
Hopkinton has encouraged and supported
jobs and industrial growth as long as it is
kept to certain areas away from residential
neighborhoods. But office and industrial
uses are evolving now. Live, work, play is
almost a new standard. Segregation of uses
is becoming passé.
Commercial and retail development
presents different challenges. Community
vitality in the form of a healthy active
downtown consisting of many shops,
boutiques, restaurants, and small businesses
has been a Hopkinton goal for many years.
But just how large a commercial base can
be supported by a population of 16,000
persons a quarter of whom are children?
Accepting for the moment that planning
for growth and development is better than
Letters (continued from page 2)
end of the road came with his small snow
removal equipment. Another neighbor kept
me & my mailbox plowed down to the tar.
Although I told them how my own kids
own their own snowplow business, they
kept helping me. So do my kids.
My Hopkinton neighbors welcomed me,
Mr. Coutinho. Please don’t give up on your
personal ideals. Please don’t give up on
the loving inheritance your father modeled.
He left us all a legacy.
My aunt was honored with a neighborhood
cookbook named for her because of the
volunteer work she had done for the
Kennedy Community School, 158 Spring
St., Cambridge. She lived next door to the
school and am
sure kids stole the peaches from her father’s
trees and called him name. She did not
understand, when he tried to catch them.
reacting to it as it comes, and recalling
the high-level visioning work we all did
together as a community in 2014, how can
we best realize the vision? Wouldn’t some
targeted long-range planning make sense?
What does the economy of the future
look like? What will the jobs be? What
should our housing mix look like? Will
suburban sub-divisions remain the ideal?
What new services will be needed locally?
What infrastructure will be needed to keep
Hopkinton a desirable place to live, work,
and play?
If community vitality is a goal, what
would constitute a real vital downtown?
Are we willing to spend on infrastructure
and beautification the same way we are
on open space and education? If we
aren’t a big enough population to support
a string of restaurants and shops, can we
tolerate an influx of diners and shoppers
from elsewhere? What about diversity in
population and housing type?
One might reasonably ask, “Isn’t
this the job of our Planning Board?” In
fairness, state law makes it hard for a
planning board to plan. Instead, it becomes
primarily a hearing body and enforcer of
state statutes and local by-laws. There is
little time for a volunteer board to “plan”
as well. Recognizing this fact, the Board
created its Zoning Advisory Committee
several years ago to perform exactly this
function, but zoning is the end product of
planning not the means. Because zoning
is inherently regulatory, ZAC has perhaps
necessarily seen its role as passive – IE:
one of responding to the input of others
rather than developing its own agenda.
Over the years, in times of uncertainty,
Hopkinton has called on groups of
citizens to perform specific tasks – two
government study committees in the
nineties, for example, and the Land Use
Study Committee formed 10 years ago
to react to the Weston Nurseries land
sale. Given the uncertainty and rapid
development pressure, wouldn’t now be
a good time to convene a similar group
to take on a holistic planning process –
Hopkinton 2050, if you will? Working
with the vision statement created two years
ago, such a process could look beyond
zoning to integrate economic development,
open space protection, housing density,
transportation and connectivity, recreation,
capital planning, and community finance.
It would be a big job and require staff and
budget, but it could go a long way toward
taking the surprises out of our future.
We pay a lot of attention to the
“dashboard” this time of year. Let’s be sure
we are also looking out the “windshield”.
The geese are honking as they fly over
Lake Maspenock and I welcome them.
Catherine Regan(Washek)
Downey Place
Huge thanks
Thank you to all the members of the
community who made the long-awaited
Groundbreaking Ceremony of our Library
possible! Countless individuals and local
groups worked tirelessly to plan a stateof–the art, accessible, beautiful Library
that honors Hopkinton’s past and builds
a stronger future for our community for
generations to come. Over the past five+
years, the Library Director and Library
Staff, Library Trustees, Hopkinton
Public Library Foundation, and Friends
of Hopkinton Library, collaborated with
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The Hopkinton Independent
March 24, 2016
Candidate statements
Announcement of Candidacy for Hopkinton Candidate for Board of Selectmen
Margie Wiggin
Town Moderator
I’m Tom Garabedian and I’m announcing my candidacy for the position of Town
Moderator. Town Meeting in Hopkinton is an extraordinary exercise of the power of our
town’s residents to chart Hopkinton’s direction and to spend its tax resources.
A successful moderator must be intimately familiar with the financial and non-financial
issues before the town so that he or she can help conduct an
efficient town meeting. If elected, I promise respect for
the issues under consideration, respect for town meeting
members, and respect for the time of all involved.
Since our family’s move to Hopkinton in 1988, I have
served on the School Committee from 1991 through 1997,
the Zoning Board of Appeals from 1998 through 2011, and as
a Commissioner of Trust Funds from 2005 through 2014. My
professional career included 34 years as a consulting actuary
and four years as an executive director of a nongovernmental
charitable organization with significant responsibilities for
managing projects and meetings.
I would appreciate your consideration of my candidacy and your vote on election day.
Sincerely,
Tom Garabedian
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I first moved to Hopkinton 30 years ago, in 1986, onto Lake Maspenock, drawn by
the natural resources, small-town charm, and schools. I had my older daughter, then had
to sell the house, and moved back to my hometown of Newton. I got a job in Weston,
running a large church school, had my second child and
moved back to Hopkinton when my son was one-year-old, in
1998. I worked as CEO of a Newton non-profit organization,
which focused on
shut-in elders, and volunteered in the schools and scouts.
My younger daughter was born in 2000. As my children
grew, I continued to volunteer in town - chairing the
Cultural Council, coaching soccer, and now chairing the
Youth Commission. I worked as CEO of non-profit Jewish
Meditation Collaborative in Brookline and then worked
in the Hopkinton schools - Next Generation, Playhouse
Preschool, Hopkins and now Elmwood.
I have always had a great appreciation for the work of public servants, and admire our
police, fire, DPW, school administrators and town hall employees. I know sometimes
they have to deal with criticism for their choices, but I appreciate their going into a job of
service - as the police motto says - to serve and protect. That is what I would like to do for
Hopkinton. My signs are green, because I am a Hopkintonian, first and foremost. I am a
registered Democrat, and believe in the democratic principles on which our country was
founded. I also believe in the special
things Hopkintonians, long-term and new, hold dear about our town - its history, its
charm, its natural resources. I don’t want to lose those things in the midst of change, and
as my sign says, I am here to Hopkinton, as we go through structural changes, and into
our future, maintaining our Hopkinton values.
Thank you for your consideration,
Margie Wiggin
“
by Michelle Murdock
With the departure of Jamie Hellen, formerly the Operations Assistant to the Town
Manager, Town Manager
Norman Khumalo has made
some organizational changes at
Town Hall. Elaine Lazarus, the
Director of Land Use, Planning
and Permitting, now has a
new title, new responsibilities
and a new office location as
she transitions to her new role
as Director of Land Use and
Town Operations.
While Lazarus will continue
as Director of the Land Use
department and maintain duties
related to that position – staff
supervision,
coordination
for major projects and will
staff the Zoning Board of
Appeals (ZBA) and the Zoning
Advisory Committee (ZAC) –
Elaine Lazarus, Director of Land Use and
she has now relocated to the
Town Operations, joins Norman Khumalo at
Town Manager’s office on the
the March 15 Board of Selectmen’s meeting.
second floor where she will add
additional duties more closely
related to that of an assistant town manager. In addition to staffing the ZBA and ZAC,
Lazarus will add the Historic District Commission and the Historical Commission. On
the operations side, she said the Board of Selectmen is still reviewing the job description
specifics, but for now she is working on Town Meeting related things and other projects.
“I like the opportunity to do more for the Town,” said Lazarus. “For some time I have
been interested in a position with a broader role and more responsibility, so I went back to
school – nights and weekends – in 2012 and graduated in 2015 with a Masters in Public
Administration from Suffolk University.”
Lazarus says the new role will give her the opportunity to make a career shift and she
has no reservations at all about making the change. She is looking forward to doing more
for Hopkinton, but admits that she will miss seeing Planning Board members on a regular
basis.
“It may sound strange, but I am one of those people who really enjoys working in local
government, serving people directly and helping where I can,” said Lazarus. “I think this
position will give me the chance to do more of that in a slightly different area. What I
also like is the opportunity to integrate land use with general administration and removing
those silos that separate functions that could be more integrated and coordinated. I think
residents and businesses look for good value for their taxes, and providing integrated,
efficient and coordinated services is important.”
While the position is functionally new, the funding for the Lazarus’ new role comes
from her current position and an additional $15,000 from Hellen’s old position which is
not being filled. The balance of Hellen’s salary is being used to supplement the Town
Planner’s salary by $10,000 and the remaining balance of $45,000 will go towards a
planned administrative position.
Lazarus has worked in Hopkinton for a total of 24 years, joining the Planning
Department in 1992.
March 24, 2016
Women’s National History Month
FY2017 Budget Moves to
Appropriation Committee for
Review
by Michelle Murdock
Following the budget calendar outlined in
the Town Charter, the Board of Selectmen
unanimously voted at its March 15 meeting
to pass along the FY2017 Comprehensive
Budget to the Appropriations Committee as
submitted, with guidance to work with the
Town Manager and the Board of Selectmen
to reduce the tax impact to 2.5 percent.
The budget as submitted to the Board
represented a 3 percent tax impact, a
number that was not acceptable to the
board.
“We’ve never done a budget that hit 3
percent since I’ve been on the board,” said
Selectman John Mosher. “We’re going to
have to take another crack at this.”
Selectman John Coutinho agreed saying,
“I’m glad we’re open to getting some of
these numbers down because people are
going to ask.”
“I fundamentally have a problem with
the 3 percent,” said Selectman Brian Herr.
“I’m going to draw a line in the sand at 2.5
percent and that’s where I’m voting.” But
while asking for 2.5 percent, Herr also said
he didn’t want to get into the weeds and
would rely on Khumalo’s team to rise to
the occasion and make it happen.
The FY2017 operating budget submitted
by the Town Manager to the Board of
Selectmen totals $76,094,480 and the total
amount to be raised equals $80,633,727.
The total Tax Levy equals $58,502,916.75.
Chairman Ben Palleiko noted that there
were some very dramatic increases in
many of the operating budget lines. Areas
driving some of the cost increases include
employee benefits and insurance, OPEB
(Other Post-Employment Benefits) and
required DPW projects.
Also discussed were town personnel
requests totaling $189,900:
Youth and Family Services Clinician $25,000
Information Technology Help Desk
Technician - $25,000
Senior Center Receptionist - $12,500
Public Works Heavy Equipment Operator
- $49,500
Facilities Custodian - $40,000
Children’s Resources Librarian - $12,500
Town Clerk Administrative Assistant $15,000
Human Resources Administrative Assistant
- $10,400
Selectman Todd Cestari also said that he
would like to see the tax impact at less than
2.5 percent, but was sensitive to the issues
and did not want to push off maintenance
that might result in higher repair costs in
the future. If that were the case, he said he
would have to hear more before accepting
the reduction.
“I’m happy to have this conversation,”
said Palleiko. “I just don’t know how
to have it and I don’t want to just whack
things for the sake of whacking things.”
Norman Khumalo explained that
negotiations for health insurance were still
underway and said, “We are fighting as
hard as we can to get the best rate for the
taxpayers.”
Khumalo also pointed out that the
tax impact settled upon when the tax
rate is actually set has often been lower
than predicted and he hoped to continue
that trend. But he also said that many of
the expenses were based on strategic
initiatives, aimed at providing better
services and reflected the growth in town.
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“It is very difficult making adjustments
to this budget considering that we
understand the drivers,” said Khumalo.
“We also understand that the new numbers
are responding to the growth in the
community. We remain very committed to
providing quality services and at the same
time finding efficiencies and savings for
the town.”
The Appropriation Committee has
until March 30/early April to complete its
budget deliberations and schedule a public
hearing. Once complete, the Board of
Selectmen plan to review and approve the
final recommended budget
The National Women’s History Month theme for 2016 honors women who
have shaped America’s history and its future through their public service
and government leadership. In celebrating National Women’s Month, the
Hopkinton Women’s Club honored Maureen Dwinnell, Geri Holland, Ann
Click, and Carol Walsh on Monday, March 7th at the Faith Community Church
in Hopkinton. Rownak Hussian and Dale Danahy were also honored but unable
to attend the event.
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Interim Library Director
Appointed
by Michelle Murdock
The Board of Selectmen unanimously
voted at their March 15 meeting to confirm
the Town Manager Norman Khumalo’s
appointment of Deborah J. Ervin as Interim
Library Director for the Hopkinton Public
Library.
Providing background, Khumalo
explained that his decision to appoint Ervin
was arrived at with input and involvement
from outgoing Library Director Rownak
Hussain and her staff.
“When we learned that Rownak
was intending to retire, she gave us the
opportunity to meet with her staff and
through consultations with the library
team we arrived at the decision to go with
an external candidate after giving internal
staff the opportunity to step up to the
plate,” said Khumalo.
According to Khumalo, Ervin was chosen
for her experience, especially because of
the changes taking place at the library and
the transition to a new facility. He cited
references for Ervin from several sources,
all of which identified her as supremely
qualified with excellent problem solving
skills and an overall “can-do” attitude.
Ervin is an 11-year Hopkinton resident
and is recently retired from her position
as Assistant Director of the Concord Free
Public Library where she was employed
from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that she
served as the Reference Librarian at the
Framingham Public Library, the Head of
Reference and Information Services at the
Manchester City Library in Manchester,
NH and the Adult Services Librarian at
Robbins Library in Arlington, MA. She
holds a BA in Political Science from Keene
State College and a Master of Science in
Library and Information Science from
Simmons College.
Ervin said she was happy to help with the
Hopkinton Public Library and is pleased to
have a wonderful team to work with.
Selectman Brian Herr asked about the
specifics of the position and how Ervin
was being paid. Khumalo said Ervin is
being paid on a per-diem basis as a hire.
Regarding the search for the permanent
director, Khumalo said the point of an
interim external candidate was to give the
town time enough time to find the best
qualified candidate.
“We’re not going to rush the process,”
said Khumalo. “We have someone who
is experienced, someone who is going to
help us better prepare for the new facility.
I don’t see that process getting off the
ground in the next three months.”
Ervin has no interest in applying for the
permanent position, but will continue to
help and volunteer at the library.
March 24, 2016
HCA marks Women’s History
Month
To coincide with Women’s History Month in March, the Hopkinton Center for the Arts
(HCA) is sponsoring an exhibit featuring the artwork of 21 artists who are active in the
Women’s Art Forum.
The WAF is a local group formed in 2005 by two artists and friends, Cheryl Perrault
and Geri Holland. It is open to all women interested in joining together to investigate
“how we can inspire, encourage and learn from each other through our stories and our
art,” says Perrault.
HCA Co-Director Kris Waldman hosted an opening reception for the exhibit on March
3, where Hopkinton High School students Rachael Chen and Dan Moreno greeted visitors
An oil painting entitled “Marshland,” by Norma Kent, is
part of the HCA’s exhibit of works by the Women’s Art
Forum.
with exquisitely played classical music. This was followed by artists who communicated
their experiences with art making, spoke their poetry, sang songs, and improvised on the
spot. Patrick Gaffey so was moved by Maria Gartland’s painting, “What You Look For,”
that he wrote a Haiku poem.
“The evening was a wonderful celebration of a range of voices, abilities, and experiences.
It was a delightful co-mingling of passions,” said Waldman.
The free exhibit runs through March 24 in the new HCA building at 98 Hayden Rowe
Street in Hopkinton. The gallery is open from 10 - 6 p.m. weekdays, 9 - 11 a.m. Saturdays.
The National Women’s History Project urged Congress to designate March as Women’s
History Month back in 1987. In the ensuring years, Congress continued to authorize the
President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month.
While the HCA exhibit closes soon, its tribute to women continues in May, when
Enter Stage Left Theater, the HCA’s resident theater company, will present “Brought to
Light, a Millennium of Women as Storytellers of the Stage.” This musical revue, written
& directed by Mark DiCampo, features the music of female composers with a cast of
talented high school performers, who are rehearsing now.
The show will be performed May 12, 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the HCA’s Delbridge
Family Performance Space. “Our goal is to pay tribute to some of the theater world’s
most talented song writers, many of whom often go unsung,” said show director Mark
DiCampo.
For more information about these events, please go to www.hopartscenter.org.
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Once again, the Hopkinton Garden Club will be providing beautiful one-of-akind floral arrangements to complement the prize-winning artwork on exhibit.
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artworks. $25 for members of the HCA.
March 24, 2016
Senior Snippets....
All activities, unless otherwise noted,
are at the Hopkinton Senior Center at 28
Mayhew Street in Hopkinton. Please call
508-497-9730 for more information or to
register for a program.
Exercise Classes at the Center (Costs $3 - 5
per class, paid by the month)
Monday – Yoga – 9 a.m.; Energy Focus 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday – Stretch Class - 9 a.m. (Free);
Stretch, Strengthen and Cardio with Joni 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday – Tai Chi - 9 a.m.
Friday – Chi Gong - 10:30 a.m.
MOVIES
Mondays at 12:30 pm
Mar. 28 North by Northwest
Discussion Group - Explorers
Wednesdays at 12:45 pm
Mar. 30 Young at Heart
BOOK GROUP
Monday, April 4 from 10:30-11:30
This month the Hopkinton Senior Center
Book Club will be reading “Family Ties”
by Danielle Steel. Feel free to join us as we
discuss this book! Our regular meetings
will be held on the first Monday of every
month at 10:30 am.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteer Prep Cook
We are in need of people interested in
joining our Team of Volunteer Prep Cooks
who help prepare and plate weekday
lunches. Basic duties are preparing garden
salads and sandwiches, setting up the
sandwich bar, and plating desserts. Prep
Cook hours are from 9-1. While our
particular need is for Thursdays, we
often have other days available. You can
volunteer once a week or once/twice
a month or more. The kitchen is a fun
atmosphere in which to work. Why not
join the Team! Please stop into the Senior
Center and fill out a Volunteer Application
or contact Sue Stewart, Volunteer
Coordinator, at 508-497-9730 ext. 1618.
Greenhouse Volunteer
We are in need of a Greenhouse
Organizer(s) to work with our Greenhouse
“veterans” as a team player overseeing
established
Greenhouse
operations.
General knowledge of plants, watering,
repotting, cuttings for rooting, fertilizing,
treating of insects and general upkeep of
a Greenhouse (guidance will be available).
This program is provided for the pleasure
of Seniors who enjoy gardening.
Why not join our Team!
If these
opportunities interest you (or if you would
like to help in another way), please come
to the Senior Center and fill out a Volunteer
Application or contact Sue Stewart,
Volunteer Coordinator, at 508-497-9730
ext. 1618.
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HPTA Corner
March 31: Hopkins Memory Book
Order Deadline
April 4: Spring 2016
Extracurricular classes start
April 8: College Scholarship
Application Deadline
April 10: Harlem Wizards
April 15: Spring 2016
Extracurricular Late Registration
closes
More Pizza Coming
to Downtown
Hopkinton
by Michelle Murdock
Selectmen at their March 15 meeting
approved a Common Victualler License
application from Tony Groutsis of
Marathon Pizza, 30 Main Street,
Hopkinton, the former Vinny’s New York
Style Pizza site, for a “fast food, sandwich
and pizza restaurant with seating, takeout
and delivery.”
According to the license application, the
hours of Marathon Pizza will be 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. seven days per week. Comments
from the Board of Health regarding the
application refer to their present location
as Dino’s Pizza at 77 West Main.
Contacted by phone, Groutsis confirmed
that Marathon Pizza will be opening at 30
Main Street once the
permit is finalized.
When
asked
if
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West Main would
be
closing
he
responded, “I can’t
say.”
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exhibition.
The
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March 24, 2016
Places of Worship.....
The
Ecumenical
Good
Friday Service of Worship for
Hopkinton will be held this year at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, 61 Wood Street
(Rt. 135) at 12 p.m. on Friday, March 25,
2016. All are welcome.
Community
Church
TheCongregationalChurchOfWestborough
Join us on Sundays at 10 a.m. - infant and
child care is provided, and all kids are
invited to our wonderful church school.
We are a community of OPEN DOORS
and GROWING FAITH!
Covenant Sha’ arei Shalom
2 West Elm St.
March 24 7:30 pm Maundy Thursday
Holy Communion Service
A time to contemplate the seven last words
of Jesus through music, pictures & stillness.
March 25 12 Noon Hopkinton Good
Friday Ecumenical Service at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church
March 27
Easter – Celebration of
Jesus’ Resurrection, 8 – 9:30 a.m. Easter
Breakfast, 9:50 am A Traditional HymnSing, 10:30 am Worship Celebration
First
Congregational
Church, UCC
725 Washington Street, Holliston,
MA 01746. 508-429-8608. www.
hollistonucc.org
Rev. Bonnie Steinroeder (revbonnie@
hollistonucc.org). Worship service on
Sundays at 10 a.m. - infant care
provided.
The Congregational Church
of Westborough
57 West Main Street, Westborough, MA
01581. 508-366-2000
www.uccwestborough.com
or
find
us on Facebook at w.facebook.com/
SHABBAT ‘LIVE!’ SERVICES –
FRIDAY, FEBUARY 26TH, 7:30pm
Shabbat Live! is a musical and interactive
service featuring our Shabbat Live! Band.
Come experience our lively twist on a
traditional Shabbat service. A community
Oneg Shabbat will follow the service.
Ashland Community Center, 162 West
Union Street. SHA’AREI SHALOM is
a member-driven, diverse congregation
offering the warmth of a small community.
We recognize the wide range of views in
our congregation and provide both tradition
and innovation, giving us the opportunity
to learn and grow as a community.
Sha’ arei Shalom Contact Information:
Web:
h t t p : / / w w w .
shaareishalom.org
Phone: 508-231-4700
Email:
info@shaareishalom.org
Address: Sha’arei
Shalom P.O.
Box
454 Ashland, MA 01721
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
61 Wood Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748
508-435-4536
www.stpaulhopkinton.org
Rev. Gordon Schultz, bridge rector
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 61 Wood
Street (Rte. 135) invites its friends and
neighbors to join services. These services
will be held at the church and will be led by
St. Paul’s new priest, Rev. Gordon Schultz,
and the new organist and music director,
Karen Scheffler from Germany. The
mission of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is
to minister unconditionally to all in the
name of Christ through shared worship,
teaching, healing, and service. For more
information call the church office at 508435-4536 or visit www.stpaulhopkinton.
org
Unitarian
Westborough
Church
The Unitarian Universalist Congregational
Society of Westborough is a liberal faith
community with deep historical roots in
town going back to 1724 and a member
of the Unitarian Universalist Association
of Congregations.
You are warmly
welcome to visit us at 64 West Main
Street, Westborough. Sunday worship and
religious education for children start at
10:30 a.m. We honor diversity, welcome
all who share our values and principles,
and believe how you live your life is
more important than doctrine. We are a
Welcoming Congregation, committed to
the intentional inclusion of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender person in all
aspects of congregational life. Learn
more about us on Facebook (Unitarian
Universalist Westborough), on our website
(www.uucsw.org) or phone 508-366-2635.
St. John
Church
the
Evangelist
20 Church Street, Hopkinton,
MA 01748 508-435-3313
www.stjohnhopkinton.com
Sunday Masses: Saturday 5 p.m. Sundays
8 and 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Weekday Masses: Monday – Wednesday
& Friday 9 a.m. No Masses on Thursday,
Saturday 8 a.m.
Woodville Baptist Church
Woodville Baptist Church (American
Baptist), meets to worship the Triune God
in community every Sunday morning at
10:30 a.m. We enjoy a sermon-dialogue
most weeks, where thoughts and questions
around the selected Bible text and themes
can be offered and pondered. It is our joy
to seek God together and enjoy community,
and we gladly invite others to join us for
just a visit, or better yet, to become a part of
the family! The church building is located
at 249 Wood Street (Rt. 135) across from
the Hopkinton Rod and Gun Club. Check
out our web site woodvillebaptist.org., or
call us at 508-435-6938.
The United Parish of Upton
An Open & Affirming/Reconciling
congregation of the United Church of
Christ/United Methodist Church, 1 Church
St., Upton MA. 9:45 a.m. Sunday worship
& Christian Education, 5:30 p.m. Third
Thursday Free Community Supper. For
more information, phone 508-529-3192
or email unitedparishoffice@yahoo.com>
The Rev. Dr. Virginia Child, Interim Pastor
effective July 1, 2016, The Rev. Lourey
Savick, Pastor.
Medway
Church
Community
Holy Week Services
March 24, Maundy Thursday, Service at 7
p.m.
March 27, Easter Sunday, Worship services
at 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
M I L F O R D R EG I O N A L
2016 Spring Lecture Series
Join us for physician presentations on surgical advancements
for women’s health and the importance of vaccinations
for the whole family.
A New Frontier: How Robotics
is Transforming Women’s Health
Monday, April 4 at 7PM
Brian Clark, MD
New England Reproductive Medicine & Surgery, LLC
A Dose of Protection: Common
Vaccines for Children & Adults
Wednesday, May 11 at 7PM
David Carlson, MD
Hopkinton Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
Have fibroids or abnormal bleeding impacted your daily
activities? Do you suffer from pelvic pain? Robotic surgery is a minimally invasive option that can involve as
few as one small incision and has a significantly shorter
recovery period. Brian Clark, MD will discuss how this
surgery is revolutionizing gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies, cyst removal and the diagnosis
and treatment of endometriosis.
Vaccines are an effective way to protect yourself and
loved ones against disease. Starting in infancy, vaccines
are given for illnesses such as measles, mumps, rubella,
diphtheria and polio. Why are vaccines necessary? What
are the benefits? David Carlson, MD, will discuss what
you should know about common vaccines for children
and when they are administered, as well as when boosters are necessary. In addition, learn the latest updates
on vaccines for adults, including the flu, pneumonia and
whooping cough.
These FREE lectures are
presented at Milford Regional’s
Physicians Conference Center
on the ground floor adjacent
to the main building lobby.
Seating is limited. Register
by calling 508-422-2206 or
visit milfordregional.org.
14 Prospect Street U Milford, MA
milfordregional.org
March 24, 2016
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Business Profile
Nicholson Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning
by Michelle Sanford
It’s a scenario so many homeowners have
been through. A hot water heater bursts
late at night. The homeowner begrudgingly
calls a plumbing company, expecting to
leave a message. Much to his surprise,
someone at Nicholson Plumbing, Heating
and Air Conditioning is there to answer the
call and ready to help that evening…a huge
sigh of relief. This is all part of Nicholson’s
business philosophy that each customer is
guaranteed reliability, service excellence,
and peace of mind.
“Most often, customers are calling us in
some sort of crisis, and who wants to get
a voicemail or be put on hold when that
happens,” questioned Nicholson’s Director
of Operations, Alexandra Nicholson. “We
pride ourselves on the fact that customers
can count on us during all hours of the day
and night.”
When it comes to plumbing, heating, and
air conditioning, there really isn’t much
Nicholson doesn’t do. Their highly trained
staff of 17 is equipped to handle all the
service and installation needs you may face
as a homeowner. Owner Mike Nicholson
(and husband of Alexandra) began in the
industry as a licensed plumber 16 years
ago and then went on to receive his HVAC
certification. Mike loves the challenge of
troubleshooting and getting to the bottom
of the issue.
“Being able to problem-solve for a
customer in desperate need of heat or hot
water is the most rewarding part of the
job,” said Mike.
The Nicholson team’s plumbing expertise
is first rate. When it comes to leaky sinks
or showers, faucet repairs, burst pipes,
drain cleaning, as well as carbon monoxide
testing--they do it all. They are also experts
in system installations and specialize in
high-efficiency heating, cooling, and hot
water solutions for homeowners. They
regularly install brands such as Navien
tankless hotwater systems, Carrier and
American Standard HVAC, Mitsubishi
ductless air conditioning and Bosch boilers;
all offering energy efficiency solutions 96
percent and above.
Nicholson’s team can also help pick out
any accessories from basic dial thermostats
to the more high-tech thermostats that are full color, WiFi and touch screen. Air duct
cleaning was also just added to Nicholson’s broad list of services in January.
Alexandra explained these days there are so many rebates available for homeowners
who utilize more “green” choices when it comes to heating and air conditioning and
she wants to make certain her customers are aware of those rebates. When customers
choose Nicholson for their installation needs, an installation coordinator will guide them
through the entire rebate process.
Another thing you can expect from Nicholson is their up-front, no obligation
pricing. Customers needn’t worry about being charged by the hour if a job is taking
Mike and Alexandra Nicholson of Nicholson Plumbing,
Heating and Air Conditioning.
longer than expected. Nicholson provides an upfront price for each job and after the
customer’s approval the price will not change no matter how long it takes.
And the reviews on Nicholson Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning are in. Customers
have posted testimonials on the company’s Web site about their experiences, raving about
the excellent customer service they received and the know-how of the staff. In fact, it’s
probably no surprise to those customers that Nicholson has won Angie’s List Service
Award five years in a row and have an A+ rating with the BBB.
Mike and Alex and their six-month-old son, Paul, recently moved to Hopkinton and
the young family is very eager to become part of their new community. “We really love
it here. It’s a great town and we have already made so many new friends here,” said
Alexandra.
According to both Mike and Alex, the real goal of their company is to establish a longterm relationship with their customers but the two understand that takes time. “We have
to be able to earn our customer’s business and their trust,” said Mike.
Based out of Ashland, the Nicholson
team will happily travel to those
towns within a 15-mile radius from
Ashland. For more information on
Nicholson Plumbing, Heating and Air
Conditioning, check out
www.nicholson-hvac.com
or
email
info@Nicholson-HVAC.com.
Customers may also call 508-8811500 during regular business hours, or for
24 hour emergency calls. Appointments
may also be scheduled online.
YMCA (continued from front page)

Summer Day Camp where
children can achieve new skills,
make new friends, and gain
positive role models.
Programs like High Flight are unique
because it reaches beyond a typical Y
program and connects with teens in an
immensely impactful way.
The Y also has a presence out in the
community. School’s Out, the Y’s before
and after school program, provides fun
and engaging enrichment activities,
healthy snacks, and physical activities
for approximately 100 children each day
who are enrolled at all three Hopkinton
Elementary Schools as well as both
Ashland Elementary Schools at their
sites at Elmwood and Hopkins Schools
in Hopkinton and Ashland Middle
School in Ashland. The Ashland Public
Library hosts free weekly kindergarten
readiness playgroups and parent education
workshops also provided by the Y.
On Tuesday, March 22 the Rally for
Kids & Families Marathon Community
Breakfast was held at The Warren
Conference Center at 529 Chestnut Street
in Ashland. The Breakfast began at 7 a.m.
and featured speakers and special guests
such as Rick Muhr, Boston Marathon
running coach and co-founder of The
Marathon Coalition.
“It’s wonderful to bring so many
engaged and passionate people together
to support our community,” said Scott
Umbel, Branch Executive Director at
the MetroWest YMCA Family Outdoor
Center.
As a follow-up to the breakfast, a
Community Impact Event will be held
at Bittersweet Co. on Main Street in
Hopkinton on April 5 from 5:30 - 7:30
p.m. This event is for adults only and
light hors d’oeuvre and cocktails will
be served. “We are hoping for another
great get together for the community to
learn about and support the programs
that impact local residents,” said Umbel.
At the Impact Event, guests will
network with community leaders, meet
YMCA Leadership, learn about the Y’s
role in Hopkinton and be invited to join
the Annual Campaign. To RSVP for the
event, contact Miriam Kimball by March
25th at mkimball@metrowestymca.org
or 508.879.4420 x 53.
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March 24, 2016
Live4Evan rents apartment near
Children’s Hospital
“More than writing a check, more than
a plaque on the wall,” is how Barbara
Girardi describes the March 1 leasing
of an apartment for families of cardiac
patients at Boston’s Children’s Hospital
by Live4Evan. The organization, founded
to honor the life of Evan Girardi, son of
Barbara and Michael, continues to increase
its profile in Hopkinton and beyond.
The apartment is located at the
Longwood Galleria for families needing a
home-away-from-home while their child
is receiving care. Proximity to the hospital
at little to no cost to families can help
relieve some of the burden associated with
extended medical treatment. Mrs. Girardi
emphasizes that it is the organization’s
hope that lasting relationships may be
formed with the families through on-going
support. It is a testament to Evan’s love of
extended family as well as the hard work
of his friends and relatives that this project
is a reality.
Diagnosed at birth with a rare congenital
heart defect, Evan was under the care of
Children’s specialists throughout his life.
As a senior at Hopkinton High School in
2007 he underwent open heart surgery and
in the aftermath, inspired everyone with his
determination and resilience. In 2010, at
the beginning of his senior year in college
Evan died suddenly of a heart arrhythmia.
Since then, Hopkinton classmates and
friends have worked to spread “heart
happiness” through Live4Evan. The
group’s mission is to improve quality of
life for patients and their families affected
by cardiac disease.
Fundraising is ongoing for the housing
project and other Live4Evan endeavors.
If you would like to contribute consider
donating to Brian DeSena who is
running his 5th Boston Marathon for the
organization. Or, register for the annual
5k Memorial Road Race to be held on
September 10. Registration begins on
April 1. Links to Brian’s page and 5k
registration along with information about
other projects and volunteer opportunities
may be found at live4evan.org.
Live4Evan board members (left to right)
Dave Krueger, Jack Nealon, Shane
Lavoie and Barbara Girardi.
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“We have been thrilled with the combination of
academics, Christian values, and character training
that MCA instills within all its students,specifically
our three sons. The concepts they use are easy
to understand,and the teachers work with their
students towards mastery of the subjects instead of
touching on it, then moving on. Thanks to MCA, my
children have developed a confidence in themselves
and their learning abilities. We are blessed to have
a school like MCA where our children can grow
academically, spiritually, and emotionally.”
– Lorri and John Dudley
508.881.7404
office@mcamwm.org • www.mcamwm.org
350 Pleasant St., Ashland, MA 01721
Convenient access to the Ashland T-Station
HONORS
Justin Normandeau, Mac Lind, and
Andrew Keeley are three 9th grade boys
who attend Hopkinton High School, and
they have started collecting soccer gear
at their school to donate to the Passback
Program. This program is run by the US
Soccer Federation, and collects soccer gear
to donate to children around the world who
are not fortunate enough to purchase their
own. These boys want to reach out to the
town to extend their collection process.
They would love if anyone who has old
or new soccer gear could donate it to this
great cause. For more information or if
you have any gear that you would like
to donate, please email jlnormandeau@
gmail.com. Thank you!
Cassidy Lowell, a freshman at Simmons
College, was named to the Dean’s List for
the fall 2015.
Andrew Hayes, a 4th class cadet at
the Massachusetts Maritime Academy
and part of the 7th Company Honor
Guard has received highest academic
honors, “President’s List”, for the fall
2015 semester. Andrew graduated from
HHS in 2015 and is majoring in Marine
Safety & Environmental Protection at
the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in
Buzzards Bay.
Aidan Cassidy, a Neuroscience major in
the Colgate University Class of 2018, has
earned the Dean’s Award for academic
excellence for the fall 2015 semester.
Cassidy is a graduate of Bancroft School.
Student athletes first-year Calvin Holland
(Hopkinton /Hopkinton HS) and first-year
Sean Winthrop (Hopkinton/Lawrence
Academy) were recognized at St. Michael’s
College.
Marissa Giusti, a junior, majoring in
Nursing was named to the Dean’s List at
Salve Regina University.
Named to the Dean’s list at Washington
University were Jeremy Abend, John M.
Olin School of Business, and
Kayla King, College of Arts & Sciences.
Alexandra Z. Radel was named to the
Dean’s List at Fairfield University for the
fall semester 2015.
Kaylin Venuto was named to the fall
President’s List at Pratt Institute.
March 24, 2016
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Business Profile
Hanto Restaurant
by Michelle Sanford
Staff Writer
Sometimes there’s nothing like satisfying a craving for delicious Asian cuisine. And the Hanto
Restaurant in Ashland is more than happy to fulfill that hankering. The eatery has been a favorite in town
for the last three years providing its patrons delicious, authentic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dishes.
Owner and chef Ray Jiang says he’s very proud to offer his customers genuine Asian dishes such as
Pao Jiao Chicken (chicken in a spicy sauce with mushrooms, water chestnuts and leeks), Shumai (fried
shrimp dumplings), Pad Thai, and
boneless duck—just to name a few.
The menu at Hanto truly has
something for everyone and includes
plenty of chicken, beef, pork and
seafood dishes, not to mention side dish
favorites including bacon kimchi fried
rice, lo mein noodles, soups and salads.
For any picky little eaters, the menu
also includes a Kids Corner offering up
chicken, beef, pasta, and shrimp dishes.
And of course, there’s also plenty of
those Americanized Asian dishes that
we all love.
Patrons at the Hanto Restaurant in Ashland can
One of Hanto’s most popular menu
come and enjoy delicious, authentic Asian Cuisine. items is the tasty sushi that customers
seem to really enjoy. “It’s all fresh,
everyday,” said Jiang. The restaurant’s sushi bar offers everything from spicy tuna, and salmon to yellow
tuna and California sushi that patrons continue to rave about. “We use a homemade secret sauce that
people seem to love,” he said.
And it’s not just delicious Chinese, Japanese and Korean food offered at the Hanto Restaurant—there’s
also live entertainment every Saturday night and trivia nights. A full bar is also available.
Jiang said he’s had a love of food and cookery for as long as he can remember. He learned his culinary
skills from his Uncle; a distinguished chef in Asia. “He’s a big chef in China who has his own television
cooking show,” said Jiang proudly.
Prior to owning the Ashland location, Jiang
had restaurants in Cambridge and Billerica
but now has the sole location in town.
He said he’s really taken to the Ashland
community and the local residents are very
supportive of the owner, who admits at
times his heavy accent isn’t always easy
for customers to understand. “To me, the
language isn’t always easy
but everyone’s so patient,
kind, and helpful,” he
said. In fact, he likes the
Ashland community so
much he said he plans to
Customers love the delicious, fresh sushi
move there to “make it my
hometown.”
at the Hanto Restaurant in Ashland.
Jiang said his main priority
is to offer his customers a
clean, relaxed atmosphere while also making sure they’re eating only fresh, delicious
food. “It’s a lot of work running a restaurant but I really enjoy this. It’s all about great
food, and great service with a smile.”
Hanto Restaurant is located at 380 Union St in Ashland and is open seven days a
week. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and
Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sunday from Noon to 9:30 p.m. For a small
$2 fee, the restaurant also delivers to those within a three mile location. For more
information or for take out, customers may call 508-881-6588. To place an online
order or view the menu in more detail, log on to www.hantorestaurant.com. You can
also check them out on Facebook.
Hopkinton
Democrats
Called to Caucus
To nominate Democrats
For Election to Town Offices.
Please help us select candidates for the Town Election
on March 24th. If you would like to consider running for
a position, and/or have any other questions, please
contact Darlene Hayes.
[Darlene’s contact Info Goes here]
TOW N O F H O P K I N TO N
D E M O C R A T I C C AU C U S
Town Hall
Basement
Thursday, March 24, 2016
7:30 p.m.
The caucus will be convened at that time by Darlene Hayes.
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The Easter Bunny makes his annual visit to
Hopkinton on Saturday, March 26 for the
Hopkinton Parks and Recreation’s Annual
Easter Egg Hunt. The event, which is
sponsored by Hopkinton Drug, will be
held at 11am sharp on the Town Common.
The Easter Egg Hunt is for Hopkinton
preschool to 2nd grade children. Please
bring your own basket or bag to collect the
candy and Special Prize Eggs. There is no
registration or fee for this event. The Easter
Bunny will be available on the common
for picture taking. In case of inclement
weather please come to Hopkinton Drug
to visit with the Easter Bunny and receive
your treats. For location change due to
weather check HCAM.tv or HopNews.
com.
Registration for the 28th Boston Marathon
Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai,
is now open. This year, an estimated
9,000 walkers are expected on Sunday,
September 25 to raise awareness and
fundraise for adult and pediatric patient
care and cancer research at Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute. Participants can choose
among four starting routes ranging from
the full 26.2-miles in Hopkinton to the 5K
(3.1-mile) start at Dana-Farber in Boston’s
Longwood Medical Area; all routes
conclude with a celebration at the Copley
Square Finish Line. To register for the
2016 Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk
presented by Hyundai on Sept. 25, or to
support
a
walker,
visit
www.
JimmyFundWalk.org or call (866) 5319255. Registration is easy and walkers
can enter the promo code NEWS for $5 off.
Edible Book Festival
Fay Festival
Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Friday, April 1 – April Fool’s Day, 4 p.m.
– St John’s Parish Hall, 20 Church St.
Girtl Scout Junior Troop 65040 invites the
community to Hopkinton’s first “Edible
Book Festival.” To enter the Edible Book
contest, bring your creation that has to do
with a book to St John’s at 4 p.m. The
rules for participating in the contest are
simple: 1) entries must relate to books or
reading, and 2) must be primarily edible
(although they will not be taste-tested or
consumed). Voting will take place from
4 - 5 p.m. Everyone in attendance will
vote on their favorite entry in each of three
categories: 1) Children, 2) Adult/Child
Pair (or Family), and 3) Adult. Votes will
be tallied and winners announced shortly
after 5 p.m. You don’t have to enter to join
in the fun, you can still come just to see
the entries and vote! For more information,
please visit https://troop65040.wordpress.
com
HOPKINTON’S
Please join all those helping to make this happen.
Swoon
Faith Communit y Church
Phipps Insurance
Solect Energy
Hopkinton Chamber
of Commerce
The Richmond Group
Perkin Elmer
Rachel Goodenough
Mirick O’Connell
Paul Mastroianni
Marilee Mackertich
Price Chopper
J.D. Marquedant
Hayden Rowe
Business Center
Ron Nation
(20th Centur y Homes)
Tech Sandbox
McInt yre Loam
Gorman Richardson
Lewis Architects
Jimmy Fund Walk
Precision Digital
Corporation
Callahan Cronin
Funeral Home
Scott’s Landscaping
Dunkin’ Donuts
Jerr y Keefe
Webster Credit Union
Chirco Land Development
BY CHECK TO:
Hopkinton Chamber of Commerce
Gateway Green Project, 93 East Main Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
Credit Card at:
www.gatewaygreenproject.com
Saturday, April 2 - 12 - 3 p.m. Chase away
those winter blues! Fay Festival is a spring
celebration open to families with children
ages two - 10 years, and admission is free!
Activities will include inflatable bounce
houses, slides, and obstacle courses as
well as carnival games and prizes. There
will also be a magic show performed
by Bonaparté at 1 p.m.! Fay Festival
will take place at Fay School’s Harlow
Gym and Harris Theater. Parking will
be available at Fay’s Primary School (25
Middle Road, Southborough) and at Fay’s
Office of Advancement (31 Main Street,
Southborough). Visit www.fayschool.org/
festival to learn more.
Friends of Whitehall
Friends of Whitehall’s Annual Meeting
will be held on Tuesday, April 5, 2016
at 7:30 PM. Two presentations will be
given following a brief business meeting.
Kathleen Regan, Teacher Naturalist with
Mass Audubon, will present “ Beaver:
Keystone Species and Ecosystem
Engineer” explaining the beaver’s vital
role in maintaining wetlands and its role
in the ecosystem. Photos of the various
beaver colonies in the Lake Whitehall
Watershed taken at different times of
the year will be included. The second
presentation will describe Friends of
Whitehall’s recent bridge building efforts
on the state trail off of Winter Street as
well as future bridge building projects. The
Friends of Whitehall’s annual membership
appeal letter was sent out earlier this
year to neighborhoods around the lake,
however anyone who is interested in the
lake is urged to join us at the meeting and
consider membership. More information
can be found on our website: www.
friendsofwhitehall.org. We would love
to expand our membership to all areas of
Hopkinton and surrounding towns. We
hope you will consider joining us in our
efforts to preserve Lake Whitehall and its
surrounding areas and we look forward to
seeing you on April 5th. The Woodville
Baptist Church is located at 249 Wood
Street, Woodville, MA.
Fay Summer Camp Open
House
Saturday, April 9 - 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Learn about Fay’s summer programs for
children ages 3-15 at an Open House!
Meet FaySummer’s camp director and tour
Fay School’s campus in Southborough to
see where camp takes place. Tours will
run from 10:30-11:00 a.m. and an info
session and Q&A will follow. Visit www.
faysummer.org to learn more. The Open
House will take place at Fay’s Primary
School (25 Middle Road in Southborough).
Questions? Contact Bob Rojee at 508-490-
March 24, 2016
8247 or rrojee@fayschool.org.
HCA Open House
The public is invited to the Hopkinton
Center for the Arts (HCA) on Sunday,
April 10 for a Summer Open House
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in The Delbridge
Family Performance Space at 98 Hayden
Rowe St. The free event will include art
demonstrations for children and adults, a
meet-n-greet with the Disney Princesses,
face painting, balloons, ice cream, a Boston
Marathon sign-making party, a children’s
craft, and a jazz performance by the
MetroWest Jazz Project (barn, 2nd floor).
Attendees will also have the opportunity
to learn more about the HCA’s summer
programs for kids, teens, and adults, and
will receive a free t-shirt and 10 percent
discount on class registrations. To learn
more about this event, please visit www.
hopartscenter.org/hca-open-house. H C A
summer programs kick-off July 5, and
include classes in the fine arts (drawing,
photography, jewelry making, pastels,
ceramics, watercolor), the performing arts
(acting, musical theater, Shakespeare),
dance, yoga, music (choir, home recording,
rock band), movie making, and much more.
In addition, upcoming events at the HCA
include the annual Arts in Bloom Exhibit, a
Treblemakers Choral Concert, First Friday
Open Mics, Sunday Jazz Jams, a Summer
Kick Off Concert, a Sunset Jazz Series, and
children’s productions of Charlotte’s Web
and Schoolhouse Rock! To learn more
about these and other events happening at
the HCA visit www.hopartscenter.org.
Couch to 5K Program
Have you always wanted to run? Do you
want to take on a 5K in 2016? Have you
run in the past and would like to start
again? If so, this is the program for you!
Back by popular demand, the Hopkinton
Running Club is offering a Couch to 5K
Program leading up to the Sharon Timlin
5K Road Race on June 18. Couch to 5K
meets every Sunday morning at 8 a.m. at
the track behind Hopkinton Middle School
from April 10 to June 12. The program
costs $45 and includes advice, guidance and
motivation from coach Keiron Tumbleton
and other local runners, a technical T-shirt
and HRC membership for 2016. Register
online at www.runhopkinton.org. There
is limited space available so be sure to
register soon! Questions? Contact Keiron
Tumbleton at ktumbleton@gmail.com
Hopkinton Area Land Trust
Every year HALT offers scholarships to
graduating seniors who are interested in
studying environmental
sciences and/ or conservation of land
and natural resources. Students must be
residents of Hopkinton
and graduating from any of the area
High Schools. Applications for these
scholarships are now available
from the Counseling Office of your High
School or from the HALT website at http://
www.hopkintonlandtrust.org/scholarships.
Completed applications must be submitted
to HALT
by April 8. 2016 to be assured of review.
Winners will be announced at your school’s
Award Ceremony,
and will be decided late in April.
Hopkinton High
Scholarship
School
Blackstone Valley Wealth Management is
pleased to announce the offering of a $1,000
scholarship to be given to a Hopkinton
High School student graduation this spring.
To be eligible for the Blackstone Valley
Wealth Management Annual Scholarship,
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Summer Camps and Activities
the student must be: Currently a senior
at Hopkinton High School, graduating in
2016, planning to pursue a higher education
at a college or university immediately after
high school or a child in a single-parent
home who can display financial need. For
an application and further details, please
visit: http://www.blackstonevalleywealth.
com/p/scholarship
Hopkinton
Nomination
Papers Available
Nomination Papers for all town elected
positions are now available during regular
business hours at the Town Clerk’s office.
Scholarships
The Hopkinton Garden Club is soliciting
applications for its 2016 Scholarship for
Hopkinton residents with an interest in any
of several fields related to the garden club’s
mission. Scholarships are available to:
applicants maintaining legal residence in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts for at least one
year, and high school or college students
and any adult interested in pursuing
a career in the fields of Horticulture,
Floriculture, Landscape Design, Forestry,
Conservation, Environmental Sciences
and related fields. Applications may
be obtained through the Hopkinton
High School Guidance Department, the
Joseph Keefe Technical School Guidance
Office, and the Hopkinton Garden Club
website
(www.hopkintongardenclub.
org). The application deadline for college
scholarships is April 17, 2016; however,
scholarships for horticulture classes will
be considered throughout the year and
disbursed depending on available funds. If
you’re eligible, don’t miss this opportunity
to apply!
Photos requested
St. John the Evangelist Church is looking
for articles and/or photographs of
significant church activities occurring in
the past 50 years or more, for publication in a booklet
commemorating its 150th anniversary as a parish.
Attribution of ownership will be acknowledged and
all items will be returned unharmed. Items can be
dropped off at the Parish Office, 20 Church St. For
pickup, or for more information, contact John Palmer
at (508) 435-4955 or johnpalmer87@verizon.net.
Sumƿer Programs
Home buyers seminar
UniBank is hosting a home buying seminar with
Deb Thomas of ReMax on April 9 to be held at the
Hopkinton Branch of UniBank. We have hosted
many of these in the past and are excited to offer it to
new home buyers who might be potential residents
of the Hopkinton Community. Presenters will be a
mortgage specialist, a realtor, a closing attorney, and
a home inspector, who will all walk potential home
buyers through the process of finding and buying the
home of their dreams!
Academic
Dr. Rob Evans - “Self-Esteem: What It Really Is;
What Parents Can—and Can’t—Do to Help It”
Monday, March 28 from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Selfesteem is perhaps the most widely known—and
misunderstood—concept in child psychology.
It’s seen as essential to children’s happiness and
performance. But there is actually no way to give
self-esteem to a child, and the experiences that build
it contradict what most parents believe. Dr. Rob
Evans will clarify self-esteem and its role in students’
lives and offer specific, practical suggestions for
helping children gain confidence and competence.
This presentation is part of Fay’s
series, Ideas&Insights at Fay School,
which features informative speakers,
workshops, and presentations on topics
that are relevant to parents today. The
event is free to attend and open to the
public. No registration is required to
attend and parking will be available at
25 Middle Road in Southborough, MA.
Please visit fayschool.org/RobEvans
for more information or contact Nicole
Casey at
508-490-8204 or ncasey@fayschool.
org.
Art & Theater
3D Design & Printing
Basketball Camp
Clay Art Camp
Jul 11 – Jul 15
Aug 8 – Aug 12
Session 1: Jul 25 – Aug 5
NEW: Maker Camp
Evening Basketball
Clinic
Performing Arts Camp
(WASA)
Jun 6 – Jun 9
Session 1: Jul 11 – Jul 22
Aug 1 – Aug 5
Multimedia Camp
Jun 27 – Jul 8
Robotics Camp
Ideas&Insights at Fay School
Athletic
Session 1: Jun 27 – Jul 8
Session 2: Jul25 – Aug 5
Science Camp
Jun 27 – Jul 8
Video Game Design
Jul 18 – Jul 22
6-8PM
Football Camp
Jul 11 – Jul 14
Visual Arts Camp
Soccer Camp
Session 2: Aug 1 – Aug 5
Sports Camp
Session 1: Jun 27 – Jul 8
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Local Author
Arts in Bloom 2016
Call for Art. EXHIBIT: April 29 – June 2,
2016. JUROR: Katherine French, Director
of Catamount Arts (Previous Director of
the Danforth Art Museum) New gallery
at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 98
Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton. It is almost
time for our popular seasonal Open Juried
Art Show! Once again, the Hopkinton
Garden Club will be providing beautiful
one-of-a-kind floral arrangements to
complement the prize-winning artwork on
exhibit. Works do not have to have a floral
component, but should reflect the theme
of blooming in imagery, color, design
or conceptual elements. ARTWORK
DROP OFF: Friday, April 8, 2 – 6 p.m.
& Saturday, April 9, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (or
call Kris at 508.589.4409 to make other
arrangements.) Fee: $35 for up to three
artworks. $25 for members of the HCA.
Art on the Trail welcomes artists
and community groups to submit outdoor
designs for this
year’s exhibition. The complete application
can be found at www.hopartscenter.org/
gallery/call-for-art, or
for more information contact Michael
Alfano
at
mail@michaelalfano.com.
Proposals are due May 15.
The opening is planned for Sunday August
7.
Basic Rights workshop
For parents and professionals to provide an
introduction to basic rights under the Mass
Special Education Law and Individuals
with Disabilities Act to be effective partners
with the child’s school, eligibility and
make decisions on his/her care. Tuesday,
March 29, Middle School Lecture Hall, 7 –
9 p.m. Contact HopkintonSEPAC@gmail.
com to RSVP.
Local author Paul C. Clerici will be at a
Hopkinton Public Library event held at
the Hopkinton Senior Center, 28 Mayhew
St., Hopkinton, on Wednesday, March
30, at 7 p.m., to talk about his popular
book “Boston Marathon History by the
Mile.” The award-winning writer takes
readers through the entire colorful 26.2mile journey, mile by mile, town by town,
story by story. With his unique vast array
of experience and knowledge as a 23-time
Boston Marathon runner and 30-plus-year
sports journalist, Clerici brings the great
race to life through informative, humorous,
and enlightening detail. The book features
vintage and during-the-race photographs;
stories about every statue, landmark, event,
nuance, and portion of the course from its
start in 1897 to its current incarnation;
and forewords by Boston Marathon race
director Dave McGillivray and the first
woman to finish the race, Roberta “Bobbi”
Gibb.
Democrat caucus
The Hopkinton Democratic Town
Committee (HDTC) will host its caucuses
on March 24 at its regularly scheduled
meeting in the lower level of the town
hall. 7 p.m. State Caucus; 7:30 p.m. Local
Caucus; 8 p.m. HDTC regular monthly
business meeting.
Legal Clinic
“Creating
a
Dementia-Friendly
Community” seminar to be held at the
Hopkinton Senior Center March 31 at 10
– 11 a.m. Join representatives of Bay Path
Elder Services and Arthur Bergeron of
Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee,
LLP who will have time to answer any
legal questions. Call for reservations 4979730.
Hopkinton Garden Club
Do
you
like
flowers
and
learning
2016 Summer Programs
An exceptional summer dance experience!
Now
accepting
registrations
Creative Movement Camps
Ages 4 & 5 | M-F 9am-11am
July 11-15 & August 1-5
Young Dancer Camps
Ages 6-8 | M-F 9am-3pm
July 11-15 & August 1-5
Photo credit Liza Voll
Main Division
Intensive Programs
Ages 9-19 | M-F 9am-5pm
Session 1 July 5-22
Session 2 July 25-August 12
9 Whitney Street, Suite 2, Holliston, MA X 508.429.7577
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about plants? Meeting new friends and
neighbors? How about contributing to your
town? Come learn and work with us – we’d
love to meet you! Our Club meetings start
in September and run through June of each
year. Meetings are held on the third Tuesday
of the month at Hopkinton venues and often
include a lecture or other program. Events
include day trips and excursions to nearby
gardens and other places of interest as well
as social gatherings at member homes.
Our meeting dates and program topics
are listed on our website. Our meetings
and programs are open to the public. New
members are welcome to join any time of
the year. No experience is required - -just
an active enthusiasm about gardening or
floral design and the good works of the
club. These include town beautification
sites, local conservation efforts and
scholarships to students of horticulture and
conservation. The Hopkinton Garden Club
is a non-profit organization and an affiliate
of The Garden Club Federation of MA.
Want to know more? Please email us at
info@hopkintongardenclub.org or see our
website at www.hopkintongardenclub.org.
We’d love to have you join us!
HopSwap
Looking for a place to donate your gently
used children’s items? Looking for great
deals on kid’s stuff? HopSwap is back!
Saturday, May 7, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., Hopkinton
High School. HopSwap is an amazing
community tag sale whose proceeds go to
the HPTA and Hopkinton Mom’s Group,
who give back to the community. Fill a
bag for $15, or for $10 if you donate items
to the event. Amazing raffles as well! We
are looking for donations that are in good,
clean condition. Donations may include:
Children’s clothing size newborn to 14,
kids sporting equipment, maternity clothes,
toys, bikes, DVD’s, books, costumes, kids’
shoes and other gently used children’s
items. Donations should be dropped off
on Friday, May 6 between 3:30 and 8 p.m.
at the High School Cafeteria. If you have
items that need to be donated right away
(accommodations limited), or have other
questions, contact hopswap@gmail.com
More info: https://www.facebook.com/
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Beautiful Lengths
Pantene Beautiful Lengths is a program
that collects eight inches of hair to make
wigs for cancer patients who receive them
free of charge. Pantene has made over
42,000 wigs to those in need because of
the donations they have received. Beautiful
Lengths is going to be taking place during
Relay For Life on May 13 starting at
6:30 p.m. Please consider donating your
hair! We can be reached at hop.beautiful.
lengths@gmail.com with any questions
you may have. You can also join our
Facebook page by searching for Hopkinton
Beautiful Lengths. We hope to see you
there!
Save the date!!
The 13th annual Sharon Timlin Memorial
5k, color run and family fun day event
Saturday, June 18, 2016, 8:30 - 12 noon.
Hopkinton High School ~ a fun day for
the whole family! Register online at www.
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sharontimlinrace.org before race/color run sells out. Honored guest:
Mike Timlin, retired MLB pitcher for Boston Red Sox. Enjoy 5k
race, new fun color run, fun and games for kids, dunk tank, raffles,
silent auction, music, food and much more. All proceeds benefit the
angel fund towards ALS research. For more information go to www.
sharontimlinrace.org
Volunteer
If you have a few hours a week to give, are friendly and outgoing, want
to give back to your community, consider volunteering at Milford
Regional. Some of the volunteer needs include visitor escort, lobby
information, emergency department volunteer, wheelchair escorts
and gift shop assistance. Milford Regional has a particular need for
volunteers to serve as emergency department visitor escorts. In this
role, volunteers escort visitors from the emergency room lobby to see
their family member who is a patient. Each shift is three hours, and
shifts are available late morning, afternoon, evening and night any
day of the week. This role is ideal for anyone looking to add steps to
their day as it entails a lot of walking. To apply, download a volunteer
application at milfordregional.org and return it to Volunteer Services,
or email Elaine Willey at ewilley@milreg.org. All volunteers are
screened and must provide character references and complete a
criminal background check.
Hospice Volunteers Needed
SALMON VNA & Hospice is seeking compassionate, reliable
volunteers who wish to offer a kind, caring presence to hospice
patients and their families in the town of Hopkinton for 1-2 hours per
week; training will be provided. Please contact SALMON’s Hospice
Volunteer Coordinator Mike Metcalf at 774-214-8702 or mmetcalf@
salmonhealth.com.
Hopkinton Networkers Group
The Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) is for those who are
unemployed or employed who would like to network with those who
are in a similar situation. The purpose of the group is to provide
leads, ideas,
search strategies and encouragement for area job-seekers through
face-to-face meetings and e-mail conversations. HNG meets
the first and third Friday of the month at St. John the Evangelist
Church Parish Hall from 10 a.m.to 12 noon. HNG is an umbrella
organization utilizing an e-mail distribution list to share job leads,
ideas and to request assistance. Any job-seeking member is welcome
to all meetings. Reminders of meeting times and locations are
published in weekly e-mails to members. Meetings are free except
for a small voluntary donation of $1 per meeting to help pay for
coffee and meeting supplies. For further information, please contact
g.krispien@verizon.net.
Woodland School
One 1-Week Session & Four 2-Week Sessions
June 13 – August 18
Women’s Club
The Hopkinton Women’s Club invites you to join us in contributing
to our community through volunteer opportunities, in developing
new friendships and in having fun together. Meetings are held the
second Monday of each month from September to June and new
members are always welcome. For more information contact Nancy
Clark at nclark@rmclark.com
Ooey Gooey Fun
Think Outside the Box
All About Art
Kids in the Kitchen
Beach Party
3 & 5 Day Morning Options –- Extended day available
7 Washington Street, Westborough 508.366.5700
Join Hopkinton Girl Scouts!
Interested in Girl Scouts? Come learn more about the largest girl
led program in America! Girl Scouting builds girls of courage,
confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Visit
www.hopkintongirlscouts.org for more information. Join today!
Nursery School
Five 2-Week Sessions
June 14 – August 18
Hopkinton Moms Group
Let’s Build Together
Calling all moms! The Hopkinton Moms Group offers a wide
variety of activities to participate in for you and your children and
committees to serve on from Playgroups to the Service Committee.
We work together to organize exciting activities, maintain regular
outings and serve the community. If you are interested in joining
please contact membership@hopkintonmomsgroup.org
Calling All Metro West Business Women; New
Location
NEW (Network of Enterprising Women) invites all Metro West
Business women to attend our monthly meetings. If you are from the
Metro West area, in business and a woman, we invite you to attend
Think Outside the Box
Ooey Gooey Fun
Water Works
Mud, Mud, I Love Mud
Tues., Wed. & Thurs. Mornings – Extended day available
64 Main Street, Westborough 508.366.0304
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the Town Manager, Board of Selectmen,
Permanent Building Committee, Town
Engineer and several Town Boards and
Committees to bring this plan to fruition.
In particular, this project is only in place
because of the leadership and vision
of the Hopkinton Board of Selectmen,
beginning in 2010 and continuing to the
present. Thank you to all of these groups
and individuals for their leadership and
dedication.
Likewise, the Groundbreaking for the
renovation and expansion of this essential
community resource would not have been
possible without the countless members
of the Hopkinton community who have
supported the plan to improve our Library
with their votes, as well as their generous
giving.
Hopkinton Public Library
Foundation, Inc. (HPLF) has now raised
$750,000 (75 percent of its goal of raising
$1 million) to offset the cost of the Library
project. With their generosity, Hopkinton
residents Kevin and Sandra Delbridge,
Middlesex Savings Bank, and hundreds of
individuals, families and businesses who
have joined “1000 Homes for Hopkinton
Library” have
spearheaded the successful fundraising
efforts. Equally important are all those who
have supported the project by attending
HPLF fundraising events, supporting
HPLF Marathon runners, and leaving
change in the donation jar at the Library.
This is YOUR Library; and the March
11 Groundbreaking shows that YOUR
contribution does make a difference!
While we still have work left to do
to meet our fundraising goal, we look
forward to the continued support of the
Hopkinton community in future events and
fundraising. Congratulations Hopkinton
on the Groundbreaking of the hub of
our community! We look forward to
seeing everyone at the Grand Opening of
Hopkinton Public Library in 2017!
Laura Barry
Nicholas Rd.
Chairperson, Hopkinton Public Library
Foundation, Inc.
Town Meeting said
“no”
“Town Meeting in May rejected a plan to
hire an assistant town manager.” and in true
Norman Khumalo fashion, he ignores it and
tries a back door maneuver to hire one for
his office immediately. Most officials, when
they can’t do the job, are shown the door.
Norman just keeps finding ways to find
funding for his own office and the Board
of Selectmen go along with him. At the
same time, he is telling other departments
(other than the schools) that we just don’t
have any money to fund their needs in
their departments. “TOWN MEETING
REJECTED THE PLAN TO HIRE AN
ASSISTANT TOWN MANAGER”!!!
There should NOT be any back door moves
to give Norman an assistant town manager
when the town clearly has voted that he
will not have one! If he is unable to do his
job, we should set out a search committee
to find someone who
can do the job and
replace him.
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Help
Us End
Litter:
Join the
Great
Cleanup
So far, the amount
of snowfall this
winter is nowhere
near
the
levels
we
experienced
last year. While
this is good news
for
Hopkinton’s
municipal
snow
removal budget, the
lack of snow is bad
news for anyone who
enjoys a break from
seeing the litter that
has piled up along our roadsides.
Unfortunately, litter has become
a serious problem in Hopkinton and
elsewhere in Massachusetts. Trash along
our major highways, suburban streets, in
small wooded areas, and along secluded
country roads is not only unsightly, but
it sends a bad message to our youth. If
all they witness is litter strewn roadways
how are they to know it is unacceptable?
With three recreational lakes and two
state parks within our town boundaries
we are surrounded by pristine wilderness.
Let’s not allow that wilderness to become
tarnished.
Research shows that people are less likely
to litter in an area that is already litter-free.
Conversely, when people see litter, they
somehow conclude that it must be ok to
add to the mess. So, litter attracts litter.
Being a part of our weekend cleanup can
send the opposite message. At the same
time, we will be teaching our young people
about the importance of taking PRIDE in
Hopkinton’s appearance!
Rather than simply accepting the dreadful
appearance of our state’s roadsides and
public lands, Keep Hopkinton Beautiful
is urging residents, government leaders,
and business owners to take action by
participating in the Great Hopkinton
Cleanup this spring. April 9, starting at 8
a.m. on the Town Common, refreshments
will be served and trash bags will be
March 24, 2016
distributed until 9 a.m. Whether you can
help for 30 mins. or a few hours, every
little bit helps. Similar to the child in
“The Starfish Story” by Loren Eisley –
everyone in their own small way can make
a difference.
The Great Massachusetts Cleanup
provides an opportunity for people in
Hopkinton to get out with their neighbors,
friends, family, or co-workers and improve
their community’s appearance. It’s also
a chance for students and others to earn
community service hours. I urge anyone
who would like to make Hopkinton a
more beautiful place to live or visit to get
involved.
While April may seem like a long way
off, now is the time to get organized and
start planning. For more information about
the Great Hopkinton Cleanup, please visit
www.keephopkintonbeautiful.org or email
letskhb@gmail.com.
Hopkinton’s event is part of a
nationwide cleanup effort led by Keep
America Beautiful (www.kab.org), the
nation’s largest community improvement
program. Locally, in affiliation with
Keep Massachusetts Beautiful (www.
keepmassachusettsbeautiful.com), many
other Massachusetts towns are also
planning litter cleanup events this spring.
Will Stearman
Keep Hopkinton Beautiful
Library (continued from front page)
The Hopkinton Public Library Foundation has been raising private funding to help
support the $11.8 million project. The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
has contributed $4.5 million towards
the renovation; individual private
donations have raised $750,000 so
far. A debt exclusion of $6.25 million
will help pay for the remaining costs.
Private fundraising is continuing.
Laura Barry, head of the Hopkinton
Public Library Foundation, thanked
the town officials who helped make
the project a reality. “Without their
leadership we would not be here today,”
she said.
Barry, who won praise from many
for a decade of service to the library
renovation, also gave credit to the many
private citizens who’ve contributed
funds. The biggest donors were Kevin
and Sandra Delbridge, who contributed
a quarter of the $750,000 raised
privately so far.
State Senator Karen Spilka greets
The construction marks the next
Rownak Hussain.
chapter in the long history of the
Hopkinton Public Library. The Young
Men’s Christian Association established Hopkinton’s first library in 1820, part of a wave
of new libraries that opened in Massachusetts communities beginning in the 19th century.
For years Hopkinton’s library was housed in the Highland House Hotel downtown. It
moved to the Main and Church
site in 1895, and later took
over the church building next
door. While it was renovated
in 1967 – when Hopkinton’s
population was about half what
it is today -- this will mark the
first time it has received major
improvements since then.
For library trustees who
attended the groundbreaking, it
was an exciting moment.
“The library will be more
community-friendly and it
will help us hold events on a
grander scale,” said Trustee Stan
Pulnick. “The technology will be a real boost.”
Libraries are most valuable during troubled economic times, Pulnick pointed out.
“Instead of going out to dinner and a movie, people can pick up some pizzas and take out
some free DVDs from the library,” he said.
Trustee Susan Porter said the new space will better serve the needs of this growing
community, which has doubled in size since she moved to town. “The old library was
wonderful, but it was getting too small and cramped,” she said.
Added Trustee Mike McNamara: “I’m looking forward to seeing more programs for all
ages – children, high school kids, adults.”
March 24, 2016
Community (continued from page 15)
one of our meetings, where you will be
treated to; a free, healthy breakfast-style
buffet, an opportunity to network with other
women and to listen to one of our dynamic
presenters. NEW is happy to announce it
new location; The Hopkinton Center for
the Arts, 98 Hayden Rowe St., (Rt.85),
Hopkinton. We meet the first Monday of
every month from 8:15 - 10 a.m. NEW is
a non-profit organization of Metro West
Business Women founded with the mission
to support, nurture and educate its members
on doing better business and to become
involved in the local community where
we support Project Just Because. For info,
go to www.networkofenterprisingwomen.
com
Do you have a caring heart
and an hour a week to give?
Gentiva Hospice is in need of caring
individuals to provide friendly visits and
companionship to patients and families in
your community. Visit near where you live
or work. Flexible training schedule and
hours and ongoing support is provided. For
more information please call Jennifer Long
at 508-229-0912 or
via e-mail: jennifer.long2@gentiva.com
Support Groups
Milford Regional Medical Center Support
Groups offering Caregivers Support
Group, Chronic Pain Support Group and
many other support groups, go to MRMC’s
website at milfordregional.org.
Milford Regional Medical Center is
inviting Facebook and Twitter users to
become Facebook fans of the medical
center and to follow us on Twitter. Simply
go to our Web site, milfordregional.org
and click on either the “F” for Facebook or
the little bird, for Twitter. Both icons are
located at the top right of the home page on
our Web site.
Child seat inspection
Hopkinton Fire Department will offer
free child seat inspection and education.
Lt. Patrick Gross, a certified CPS (Child
Passenger Safety) technician will work
with the parents to install the child safety
seat in the safest manner. Installations
Monday to Thursday by appointment only.
Call 508-497-2325 between 8 a.m. and 4
p.m. Monday to Thursday to schedule an
appointment.
Wheels of the World
Do you have a manual wheelchair, walker,
aluminum crutches or canes that are no
longer needed? Donate them to Wheels of
the World. They will be refurbished and
distributed overseas to those in need. A
tax deductible receipt will be provided on
request. Call Cindy at 508-653-3743.
Town Clerk
NEW Office Hours: Town Clerk – Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday - 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. – 2
p.m.
Recycling
If any charitable groups want to participate
in this program, please call Bob Snyder at
435-4528.
The Town of Hopkinton DPW is now
offering Electronic Waste Drop-off at the
Recycling Center Saturdays from 7:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. There is a nominal charge as
follows: PC Monitors and Large TVs, $10,
Small TVs and Household Electronics $5,
Portable Electronics $1. To dispose of an
item, see the Recycling Center Attendant.
Compassionate Friends
A support group for those who have lost a child meets the third
Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church on Washington Street in Holliston. Anyone who has lost a
child of any age is invited.
La Leche League
of Hopkinton/Ashland/Holliston
holds meetings each month for women looking for breastfeeding
information and mother-to-be support. Led by experienced
mothers, topics range from the basic how-to’s of breastfeeding
and avoiding difficulties, to nighttime parenting, introducing
solids and weaning. Babies are always welcome. Call (508) 6251990 for more information. Ask for Mary.
Project Just Because
Location: 86 South Street
Phone: 508-435-6511
Web Site: www.projectjustbecause.org
Email: pjbpresident@comcast.net
Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Contact Person: Cherylann Lambert Walsh: President
501(c) (3)Non-Profit Corporation, Tax ID #06-1728553
We are an item-based charity that runs programs year round:
Some of our services include: Project Just Because Hopkinton
Food Pantry, Clothes, Educational items, Cancer care, Domestic
abuse, Furniture Network, Holiday Program etc. please – check
out our web site to view ALL PROGRAMS for how we may help.
The Drop Off Locations list on website. If you would like to do
community service please e-mail pjboffice@comcast.net. PJB
thanks everyone for their support.
Al-Anon
For people effected by someone’s alcoholic problem. Meetings
are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church on Wood Street in
Hopkinton. Beginners meetings are at 7.
Audubon
Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary 280 Eliot St.
(Rt.16), Natick 01760. 508-655-2296
Hours: Nature Center: Tues- Fri, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sat-Sun, and Mon.
holidays, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Trails: Tues-Sun, and Mon. holidays,
dawn to dusk. Nine miles of scenic walking trails through fields,
woods, and along the Charles River include a 1/4-mile wheelchair
accessible trail and boardwalk along Indian Brook. The ecofriendly Visitor Center, a renovated historic horse barn, features
solar heat and electricity, rainwater collection and composting
toilets. Check out our website at www.massaudubon.org for the
latest information! Pre-registration required for programs. Both
cross-country skiing and snowshoeing allowed.
Upcoming Programs: *Pre-registration required for most
programs. Online registration available.
Brown Dog Coalition
Brown Dog Coalition is proud to
announce that it will begin doing direct
adoptions starting on March 15, 2016.
Brown Dog Coalition is a foster-based
rescue with headquarters in Hopkinton,
Mass. In addition to its primary mission
of transporting and rehoming dogs from
Jamaica, Brown Dog will also be rehoming
dogs and cats from Massachusetts and
other U.S. locations.
Working with a local shelter, Brown Dog
Coalition has successfully rehomed over
100 dogs and five cats since its inception
two years ago. Jamaica’s Montego Bay
Animal Haven rescues local animals, and
with the help of Brown Dog Coalition, dogs
and cats are evaluated for temperament and
suitability for adoption. Once candidates
pass the evaluation, they are vaccinated,
spayed or neutered, and examined by three
veterinarians before they are authorized to
travel to the U.S. Once in Massachusetts,
they are quarantined for 48 hours, and
examined by a veterinarian again before
they are available for adoption.
Given the enthusiastic welcome from
adopters in Massachusetts, Brown Dog
will begin direct adoptions and is looking
forward to finding forever homes for even
more deserving animals.
Brown Dog Coalition is actively seeking
foster homes in Hopkinton and the
surrounding areas. Please apply on-line at
www.browndogcoalition.com.
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But for Fultz as well as Burfoot, it is
the
people who live in Hopkinton that
“Without knowing specific people, you
make
it special. For nearly 20 years, Fultz
nevertheless felt very welcomed,” said
has
coached
the Dana-Farber Marathon
Burfoot.
Challenge
team
and has used the parish
But it’s also the size of the town that
hall
at
St.
John’s
as
a pre-race staging area.
makes Hopkinton different.
“It’s
been
a
wonderful
haven for our
“No town as remotely as small hosts a
runners
amidst
all
the
activities
throughout
race that is a big as the Boston Marathon,”
Hopkinton
on
race
day,”
said
Fultz.
said Burfoot.
“Charlotte
Lemoine,
a
Hopkinton
resident
“It’s unique in the world of marathoning
in that all major marathons and many and St. John’s administrator has been our
secondary marathons start in larger cities gracious hostess all those years and she’s
that host those races – and in which many always made us feel so welcomed, not just
of those marathons start and finish,” said at St. John’s but in Hopkinton as well.”
A four-time winner of the Boston
Jack Fultz, whose first visit to Hopkinton
Marathon,
running legend Bill Rodgers
was in 1971, before finishing first in the
also
has
special
memories of Hopkinton.
1976 Boston Marathon.
Rodgers
ran
his
fi
rst Boston Marathon in
“I thought, what a quaint, bucolic place
1973
and
has
run
the
26.2 mile course from
– the quintessential small New England
Hopkinton
to
Boston
a total of 17 times,
town,” said Fultz.
fi
nishing
fi
rst
in
1975,
1978, 1979 and
Fultz described a time in 1977 when
1980.
he was back to defend his 1976 victory
“It was exciting to be running with
when runners were able to drive right into
Champions
and Olympians in this oldest
Hopkinton on Main Street.
of
marathons,”
said Rodgers. “One of my
“Until the crowd blocked us from
favorite
memories
of Hopkinton revolved
proceeding any further,” said Fultz. “We
around
an
event
with
Johnny Kelley [the
arrived less than 30 minutes from the start
Elder]
held
at
the
Town
Common before the
of the race. I had to run from the starting
Marathon,”
said
Rodgers.
“Johnny, being
line area back to the high school to get my
the
Babe
Ruth
of
our
sport
in
America, was
bib number. When I got there, I was told
a
special
marathoner
and
a
terrifi
c person
the low numbers that had not been picked
to
boot!”
up were now at the starting line. I ran back
Rodgers also talked about staying with
across town, dodging all the runners and
a
friend,
also a marathoner, who lived in
spectators, arriving at the starting line five
town
and
the connections that developed
minutes before the start. Nobody knew
between
runners and the Hopkinton
where the remaining bib numbers were
families
who
often hosted them.
so I ran the race as defending champion
“I
think
a
connection
developed over many
without a bib number. When I finished
years
for
many
runners
and Hopkinton
th
– in 9 place with nearly the same time I
families
to
host
runners
from
around the
won with the year before, they thought I
US
and
the
Globe,”
said
Rodgers.
was a bandit and tried to kick me out of
Hopkinton’s size and its small town
the race and finish area. And I never did
charm
were again discussed, with Rodgers
receive my #1 bib – there’s a blank page in
saying
that in a world where marathoning
my scrapbook still waiting for it. That was
has
evolved
to a big city sport, Hopkinton’s
quite an adventure.”
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first
Boston
Marathon
was in 1979 when
she was still a
student at Bowdoin.
Like
Fultz,
Samuelson describes a much different
arrival than exists today. She was staying
with a friend in Newton, got to Hopkinton
late, and had to “bushwhack” back to the
start after picking her bib number. In the
pocket of her sweat pants which were later
misplaced, was a brimstone from an island
in Maine, given to her by her brother. She
won the race in 1979 and again in 1983,
setting a world record and carries a new
brimstone for good luck.
Samuelson also describes Hopkinton
as the quintessential New England town
where the residents were always so
generous, so welcoming.
“Viewed from the outside, Hopkinton
is a small community, almost a sheltered
community that looks idyllic, but it takes a
lot of people cooperating for an event like
the Boston Marathon to work. Hopkinton
gets that,” said Samuelson who praised the
volunteers that come out and are critical to
the success of the event.
“Hopkinton is a role model for other
communities in New England and
throughout the world,” said Samuelson.
Our last conversation about what makes
Hopkinton special was with Dick Hoyt, a
familiar figure with his son Rick to many
in Hopkinton. Team Hoyt ran their first
Boston Marathon, and their first marathon
ever, in 1981.
“I like these little towns,” said Dick. “I’m
not a city person. I felt energy there.”
He also felt welcomed as he and his son
Rick made their way to the start line to
take their place with the other wheelchair
entrants, although they were different
since they ran as a team. Other special
memories of Hopkinton are tied to people;
the members of the 26.2 Foundation,
known in 2006 as the Hopkinton Athletic
Association, who raised $97,000 to
purchase a new van for Rick, and Dale
Danahy of Colella’s Supermarket who, on
more than one occasion, stored the Hoyt’s
running chair at her house and delivered it
to the start line on Marathon Monday.
“She’s been awesome,” said Hoyt.
“Unbelievable support of us for years.”
Other important memories of Hopkinton
for Dick Hoyt included gathering at Center
School where the wheelchairs meet before
the race and meeting Hopkinton people
who help the wheelchair athletes.
“The people of Hopkinton sort of adopted
Rick and me,” said Dick who went on to talk
about speaking to students at the Middle
School and the bronze statue of Team Hoyt
that is now in place on the Center School
lawn. The statue, commissioned by John
Hancock to commemorate the Hoyts 30th
Boston Marathon run, was donated to the
Town of Hopkinton and will now forever
inspire others with their message of “Yes
You Can”. Dick Hoyt says he is especially
touched by the number of his friends and
supporters who now come to Hopkinton
just to see and take pictures with the statue
of Team Hoyt.
“It’s just unbelievable,” said Hoyt.
And so, while Hopkinton on the outside
is the quintessential small New England
town, it’s really much larger on the inside.
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past and present, and the dreams of those
yet to run. It represents the spirit of the
marathon in its unique history, and most
importantly, in its people. It’s a special
place forever recognizable for being 26.2
miles from Boston.
Runner Biographies
Amby Burfoot Ambrose Joel Burfoot
is an American marathoner, whose peak
competitive years came in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. He was the winner of
the 1968 Boston Marathon. After retiring
from competition, he became a running
journalist and author. Burfoot was the
top editor (editor-in-chief) at Runner’s
World for many years and both writes
for Runner’s World and serves as editor-atlarge.
Jack Fultz Jon Willis (“Jack”) Fultz is
a retired American long-distance runner,
who came to prominence in the 1970s
after winning the 1976 Boston Marathon,
the hottest Boston Marathon on record
known as the “Run for the Hoses” when
temperatures reached close to 100 degrees.
Fultz is an instructor of sport psychology
at Tufts University, a fitness consultant and
personal coach, and a training consultant to
the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge.
Bill Rodgers
William “Bill” Henry
Rodgers is an American runner and
former American record holder in
the marathon who is best known for his
victories in the Boston Marathon and
the New York City Marathon in the
late 1970s. Rodgers won both races four
times each between 1975 and 1980,
twice breaking the American record
at Boston with a time of 2:09:55 in 1975
and a 2:09:27 in 1979. In 1977 he won
the Fukuoka Marathon, making him the
only runner ever to hold the championship
of all three major marathons at the same
time. Track & Field News ranked
Rodgers #1 in the world in the marathon in
1975, 1977 and 1979. Of the 59 marathons
Rodgers ran, 28 were run under 2:15.
Joan Benoit Samuelson began running
track in high school in Cape Elizabeth,
Maine. Samuelson continued on to
Bowdoin College where her career soared.
She received All-American honors in crosscountry and track and won the Boston
Marathon in 1979, setting an American and
course record, all before she graduated.
Samuelson won the Boston Marathon
again in 1983, this time breaking the world
record. One year later, at the age of 27, she
won the gold medal in the first women’s
marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics. In
1985, she won the Chicago Marathon with
an American record time of 2:21:21.
Dick Hoyt
Team Hoyt began in 1977
when Rick Hoyt asked his father Dick
Hoyt if they could run in a race together
to benefit a lacrosse player at his school
who had become paralyzed. He wanted
to prove that life went on no matter your
disability. Dick Hoyt was not a runner
and was 36 years old. After their first race
Rick said, “Dad, when I’m running, it feels
like I’m not handicapped.” As of April
2012, the Hoyts had competed in 1,077
endurance events, including 70 marathons
and six Ironman triathlons. They had
run the Boston Marathon 30 times. Also
adding to their list of achievements, Dick
and Rick biked and ran across the U.S.
in 1992, completing a full 3,735 miles in
45 days. ESPN honored Team Hoyt with
the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the
ESPYS on July 17, 2013
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The Easter Basket
Project
by Erica Brown
For many years resident Pam Burman and her family have purchased Christmas gifts
for local families in need, but last year one of her children asked, “If some children don’t
get presents for Christmas, how do they get Easter Baskets for Easter?” Thus, the Easter
Basket Project was formed.
On March 19, in the Hopkinton High School cafeteria, volunteers gathered for the
second time to assemble Easter Baskets to be donated to Project Just Because.
“We’ve tripled our donations from last year,” said Burman of the 650 baskets this year.
She is in the process of incorporating The Easter Basket Project in order to assemble a
working board for the organization.
The cafeteria was full of volunteers who were treated to music and pizza. Local and
state government officials were expected to attend. “I think the coming of spring makes
people want to do something good, and this feels good,” said Burman about the 100
volunteers who signed up to help. “And, I think everyone here knows they’re probably
helping someone they know since all of this is going to Project Just Because.”
Retailor Jenny Boston donated items for older children and Burman fundraised for all
other materials; baskets, plastic eggs, candy, and stuffed animals.
Many young children participated in assembling the baskets. “We’ve explained that
since many kids don’t have a permanent home, the Easter Bunny doesn’t know where to
deliver their baskets - so we need to help,” said Burman on how the event was explained
to young volunteers.
Next year, Burman hopes to donate 1,500 baskets to multiple organizations.
“We know the need for this extends beyond Hopkinton,” said Burman. You can follow
the volunteer efforts on Instagram @Easterbasketproject, and if you are interested in
volunteering, please contact Burman directly at Pam@easterbasketproject.org.
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numbers from the B.A.A. this year. She
will run herself and decided to donate the
second bib to the Epilepsy Foundation,
an organization she works closely with
through her work at a pharmaceutical
company that makes an anticonvulsant.
When Warren got a phone call from the
EF asking her to run, she said, “My first
reaction was, ‘Oh my God, why now?’ I
was still in a sling and I hadn’t run since
the first week of November.” Warren broke
her collarbone when she fell during the
Stone Cat Trail Marathon on November 7.
After 48 hours to decide, Warren realized
she couldn’t pass up the opportunity she’d
been waiting years for.
“I’ve run with a group called Athletes
for Epilepsy at other marathons, but it’s
been frustrating not to be able to run
Boston because it’s right in my backyard.
We’re hoping this will turn into something
big,” she said.
When first diagnosed, Warren didn’t
know who to call or talk to. The Epilepsy
Foundation, based in Washington D.C.
offered some support. Now the Foundation
has expanded and has multiple regional
offices, including the New England office
in Boston. Warren said, “It’s changed
dramatically, but not enough.” She cited
statistics that 1 in 100 people and more
than 50 million globally have epilepsy,
and only about half can control symptoms
with medication. “There are over 10,000
deaths annually from epilepsy,” she said.
“There’s a lot of ignorance and fear about
it. More people die from epilepsy than
breast cancer, but there’s very little money
spent on research to try to evaluate better
treatment or a solution. That’s one thing
the Epilepsy Foundation does—brings it
out in the open.”
Warren speaks about her own epilepsy
freely. She has partial complex seizures
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but not falling on the ground and
convulsing like some people associate
with all epileptics. “Unfortunately they’re
very hard to control,” she said about her
seizures. “I have learned to live with them.
It’s really not that bad, but I don’t drive.
That’s the biggest thing that I miss. It can
be difficult to plan things. Fortunately, I
have a lot of support.” That support crew
includes friends from the Hopkinton
Running Club who swing by in the early
morning to pick her up for 6 a.m. speed
workouts.
“I returned to running in 2011 after a
long absence when I was first diagnosed
and having no success with treatments,”
said the Hopkinton native. “Since then,
running is once again a big part of my life
and overall well-being. The 2016 Boston
Marathon will be my 17th marathon,
my fourth charity run for the Epilepsy
Foundation, and my very first for the
Epilepsy Foundation of New England.”
Warren will run the marathon with
Ward, and has invited her to stay at her
home the night before. She hopes to raise
$10,000 for the Epilepsy Foundation of
New England and welcomes donations
through her fundraising page (https://www.
firstgiving.com/fundraiser/EileenWarren/
BostonMarathon2016). She also hopes
her run will raise awareness for epilepsy.
When she’s out training on March 26,
she’ll be wearing purple as part of Purple
Day, started in 2008 to raise awareness
about epilepsy. She urges others to join her
in wearing purple that day.
With the late start in training along
with some time missed from another fall,
Warren doesn’t expect to be close to a
personal best time on Patriots’ Day, but
she’s already achieved several goals before
she’s even crossed the starting line.
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March 3
6:31 a.m. Officer John Moran spoke
with an individual doing construction on
West Main Street in violation of town bylaw. The individual was advised of the time
restrictions.
1:34 p.m. A walk-in from Milford
reported she placed her wallet on her car
roof while pumping gas at a local station
and she accidentally drove off with the
wallet on top. She was advised to cancel
her credit cards and notify her bank.
6:09 p.m. The Southborough Police
Department received a call about an
erratic operator on heading in to town on
Cedar Street. Officers Arthur Schofield
and Panagiotis Hontzeas responded and
checked the area with a negative find.
6:24 p.m. A Spring Street resident
reported his grandson is missing; he
went out for a walk an hour ago and
hasn’t returned. Officers John Corridan
and Panagiotis Hontzeas responded and
checked the area with a negative find.
The Southborough and Upton Police
Departments were notified. A report will
follow.
March 4
12:31 p.m. A walk-in from West Main
Street spoke with Officer Thomas Griffin
about noise complaints.
1:52 p.m. A walk-in reported an outof-town municipal vehicle was on Cedar
Street, and an occupant threw trash and
cigarette butts out the window. Officer
William Burchard contacted the agency
and left a message.
2:54 p.m. A Heartwood Way resident
reported her fire alarms are sounding,
but there is no sight or smell of smoke
or fire. Officer Peter Booth responded
along with the Fire Department. A faulty
detector was found.
6:01 p.m. Two parties from Elm Street
walked in to the station and reported
identity theft. Officers Aaron O’Neil and
Brian Sanchioni spoke with the parties.
7:12 p.m. Officers Matthew Santoro and
Peter Booth conducted a motor vehicle
stop on West Main Street and subsequently
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3:14 a.m. A Woodview Way caller
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William Burchard and Detective Gregg
DeBoer responded to take a report and
investigate.
11:12 a.m. The Ashland Police
Department requested Hopkinton to be on
the look out for a dark minivan with possible
NY plates and an Asian male hanging out
of the window with an automatic weapon.
Officers William Burchard and Thomas
Griffin responded and located the vehicle
on East Main Street. The three individuals
in the vehicle had a video camera and were
shooting a video for the Boston Marathon.
All was okay.
11:47 a.m. A Penny Meadow Lane
caller reported she is home alone and she
saw a man peeking through a window in
her house. Officers Thomas Griffin and
William Burchard responded and spoke to
a neighbor, who was attempting to return
a dog that had gotten loose from the girl’s
house. All was okay.
12:13 p.m. The Worcester Animal
Rescue reported a man is in their facility
trying to give them a Jack Russell Terrier
that his son found on Amherst Road in
Hopkinton. The man was advised the dog
resides in Hopkinton and he is to return it.
The Animal Control Officer waited at the
station to meet the man and retrieve the
dog.
5:11 p.m. An Oakhurst Road resident
reported a man sitting in a vehicle in his
driveway in the passenger seat with the
car running. The resident asked him to
leave and he claimed he was meeting
someone but would not say whom. Officer
Panagiotis Hontzeas responded and spoke
with the caller.
8:37 p.m. A Front Street caller reported
he and his neighbors can smell an electrical
burning smell in the neighborhood, but
they do not know where it is coming from.
Eversource was notified and responded.
8:47 p.m. Officers Aaron O’Neil and
Brian Sanchioni found youths on the Fruit
Street fields after hours and advised them
to leave immediately.
March 6
2:11 p.m. Officer Matthew Santoro
helped a Hayden Rowe Street resident gain
access to his home.
5:48 p.m. Multiple calls were received
about ATVs on North Street. Officer Philip
Powers responded and the vehicles were
gone upon his arrival.
5:56 p.m. At a caller’s request, Officer
John Corridan performed a well-being
check on a Kimball Road resident. The
resident was fine.
6:18 p.m. A caller reported a strong
odor of natural gas on Wood Street. Officer
Philip Powers responded and contacted
Eversource.
March 7
4:17 p.m. A caller reported a mailman is
acting suspiciously at an abandoned Wood
Street residence. Officer Arthur Schofield
responded and checked the area with a
negative find on the mailman. He checked
the residence and found all secure.
6:28 p.m. A caller reported a suspicious
white van with all its lights on parked on
Parkwood Road. Officer Arthur Schofield
responded and spoke with the driver, who
will be on his way.
7:18 p.m. Officer Arthur Schofield
reported there are vehicles parked at the
entrance of the Fruit Street fields. Officer
Schofield found individuals jogging near
the fields and spoke with them. All was
okay.
March 8
10:17 a.m. Officer Panagiotis Hontzeas
assisted a disabled motor vehicle on West
Main Street.
March 24, 2016
11:20 a.m. Officer Panagiotis Hontzeas
reported a dead raccoon in the roadway of
West Main Street and contacted the DPW
for removal.
12:05 p.m. A Wood Street caller reported
her son lost his wallet some time last night
when he drove away with the wallet on
top of his vehicle. The caller wanted the
incident logged.
1:49 p.m. Officer Stephen Buckley
found a discarded laptop and pellet gun on
Frankland Road and removed them.
2 p.m. Officer Stephen Buckley
responded to a report of fallen wires on
Wood Street. Verizon was contacted.
4:54 p.m. Two walk-ins from Pleasant
Street spoke with Officer Panagiotis
Hontzeas about losing money in a scam that
they were involved in. Officer Hontzeas
took a report.
5:51 p.m. A caller reported ATVs on Fruit
Street. Officer John Corridan responded
and checked the area with a negative find.
8:11 p.m. Officer John Corridan
responded to Cedar Street Extension after
receiving a complaint about a barking
dog. Officer Corridan spoke to all parties
involved.
8:37 p.m. A walk-in reported seeing
a drone flying in the area and thought it
was suspicious. Officer Arthur Schofield
checked the area and the State Park with
a negative find. The Ashland Police
Department was notified and was able to
see the drone but unable to locate its origin.
March 9
1:42 a.m. Officer John Moran checked
on a suspicious vehicle occupied by two
parties on Wood Street. Both parties
claimed to not be operating the vehicle.
Officer Jacob Campbell responded and
transported the female party home while
the other party was picked up by Uber. The
vehicle will stay put for the night.
7:54 a.m. Officer Stephen Buckley
accompanied the National Guard while
they prepared for the Boston Marathon on
Hayden Rowe Street.
10:47 a.m. A walk-in reported she
received phone calls from someone
claiming to be from the Hopkinton Police
Department and instructed her to send
money. Officer Thomas Griffin spoke to
the woman about fraud.
2:28 p.m. A caller reported a woman
is walking five dogs, which are off their
leashes, on Wood Street. The caller is afraid
to walk in the area. She sees the woman
walking the dogs every day at the same
time. Officer John Corridan responded and
the woman and dogs were gone upon his
arrival.
9:25 p.m. A caller reported while walking
by the middle school, he noticed the doors
to the right of the front entrance were
propped open. Officers Arthur Schofield,
John Corridan, and Panagiotis Hontzeas
responded and while searching the area,
they set off the alarms. The building was
subsequently secured.
March 10
11:31 a.m. A Pond Street caller
complained of construction taking place
in her neighborhood and vehicles parked
in front of her house. She wanted her
complaint logged.
11:44 a.m. An Eastview Road resident
reported an ongoing complaint of a barking
dog in the neighborhood. Officer William
Burchard and the Animal Control Officer
responded and reported the dog is outside
but not barking at this time.
12:23 p.m. A Yale Road caller reported
an IRS scam. He was advised on how to
protect himself from fraud.
2:04 p.m. A walk-in from Forest Lane
requested to speak with an officer about
ATVs driving around the condominiums
and the laws. Officer William Burchard
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assisted the person.
2:28 p.m. A caller reported a woman
in a vehicle took several photos of him
and his friends while they were walking
home from school on Hayden Rowe
Street. Officers Thomas Griffin and Brian
Sanchioni responded and checked the area
with a negative find on the vehicle.
4:39 p.m. A Fruit Street caller reported
she received a call from the IRS stating she
was going to be arrested for back taxes.
Officers Peter Booth and Matthew Santoro
responded to assist.
March 11
1:55 p.m. A caller reported finding
damage to her vehicle when she came
out from lunch on South Street. Officer
Stephen Buckley responded and viewed
the minor damage.
4:41 p.m. A caller reported a dog was just
stolen from Baypath Humane society on
Rafferty Road. The person drove away in a
silver Honda Accord with New Hampshire
license plates towards Wilson Street.
The Ashland and Southborough Police
Departments and the State Police were
notified. Officers Aaron O’Neil, Matthew
Santoro, and Aaron O’Neil responded and
located the woman and the stolen dog.
The dog was returned to Baypath, and the
woman was served a No Trespassing order.
10:45 p.m. A Lumber Street resident
reported a silver Jeep hit a pole near his
house and drove away. No license plate
was provided. Officers Peter Booth and
Aaron O’Neil responded and checked the
area with a negative find on a Jeep. The
Milford Police Department was advised.
March 12
12:43 p.m. An Apple Tree Hill resident
reported a neighbor was taking care of her
puppy, and the caller has now returned
home, but she cannot find the person caring
for the puppy or get in contact with her.
Officers William Burchard and Matthew
Santoro responded and assisted in locating
the individual, who returned the dog to the
owner.
1:38 p.m. A Main Street caller with
questions about a family matter spoke
with Officer William Burchard, who took
a report.
2:48 p.m. A walk-in brought in a wallet
that was left at his store by a customer.
3:05 p.m. A walk-in spoke with Officer
John Corridan about a case of fraud.
3:14 p.m. A Wedgewood Drive resident
reported someone threw eggs at her house
and driveway. Officer Arthur Schofield
responded and spoke with the reporting
person.
3:46 p.m. A caller reported he believes
he saw a victim of an Amber Alert that
was announced this morning. The caller
stated the child was with an older couple
plus another man on Hayden Rowe
Street. Officers Arthur Schofield and John
Corridan and Detective Timothy Brennan
responded. The Milford Police Department
was notified, as the license plates were
from a Milford address. The Milford Police
Department located the vehicle and the
individuals, who were grandparents with
their grandson. Negative find on the Amber
Alert.
4:31 p.m. A caller reported she fell down
on Main Street in front of the Lovely Lady
Salon. Officer John Corridan responded
and reported a hole in the sidewalk. The
woman refused any medical attention.
Officer Corridan contacted the DPW to
patch up the hole.
6:35 p.m. Officer John Corridan
checked on vehicles parked at the State
Park and notified some individuals that the
park closes at dusk.
8:15 p.m. A Pond Street caller reported
her basement door keeps opening and
closing by itself and she requested an
officer to check the house for possible
intruders. Officers Arthur Schofield,
John Corridan and Detective Timothy
Brennan responded and checked the house
and found the bulkhead door unlocked.
Everything checked out okay.
11:24 p.m. Officer John Moran checked
on a vehicle parked on Hayden Rowe
Street and discovered vulgar writing on the
windows. The owner was contacted and
he informed Officer Moran that his friends
were playing a prank on him. He removed
the car and cleaned off the vulgarities.
4:06 p.m. A walk-in spoke with Officer
Panagiotis Hontzeas about a case of fraud.
4:10 p.m. Officer Arthur Schofield
assisted a disabled motor vehicle on West
Main Street
4:33 p.m. A caller reported a reckless
driver on West Main Street who cut off a
school bus. Officer Panagiotis Hontzeas
called and spoke with the driver.
March 13
12:54 a.m. Officer John Corridan
conducted a motor vehicle stop on Clinton
Street and Officers Linda Higgins and John
Moran responded as back up. Subsequently
Meghan M. Beidleman, 20, of 75 Overlook
Drive, Holliston was arrested and charged
with Speeding, Negligent Operation of a
Motor Vehicle, and OUI Liquor.
9:30 a.m. A walk-in reported a dead
animal on the roadway of Ash Street.
Officer William Burchard contacted the
DPW for clean up.
10:09 a.m. A caller reported a possible
unsafe burn on Jamie Lane. Officer Alex
Cruzvergara responded and reported the
homeowner has a permit and there are no
problems with the burn.
11:09 a.m. A walk-in reported finding a
needle on the side of the road on East Main
Street, near Wilson Street. Officer Peter
Booth responded and properly disposed of
the needle.
2:25 p.m. Multiple calls were received
about a brush fire on Valentine Road.
Officers Peter Booth and Matthew Santoro
responded along with the Fire Department
and the fire was extinguished.
4:30 p.m. A caller reported an older
male riding a bicycle up the ramp from
West Main Street on to Route 495. The
State Police were notified and transported
the individual back to West Main Street to
wait for a ride.
6:06 p.m. A caller reported a minor hit
and run with no injuries on Curtis Road.
Officer John Corridan responded and took
a report.
March 14
12:12 a.m. Officer John Moran came
across a struck beaver in the roadway of
Ash Street and put it down. He moved it to
the side of the road and notified the DPW.
9:12 a.m. A Frankland Road caller
reported the larceny of granite block
valued at $500-600. Officer Thomas
Griffin responded and took a report.
2:56 p.m. A Hayward Street resident
reported finding a hypodermic needle on
the side of the road and the used casing
in his mailbox. Officer John Corridan
responded and disposed of the needle and
casing.
5:22 p.m. A Granite Street resident
reported youths on dirt bikes riding up
and down the street without helmets and
causing a disturbance. Officers Arthur
Schofield and John Corridan responded
and advised the youths that they are done
for the day.
8:29 p.m. An Ash Street caller reported
power is out around the area of Ash Street
and Hidden Brick Road. Officers Arthur
Schofield and John Corridan responded and
reported power is also out on South Mill
Street and Cider Mill Lane. Eversource
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of Hopkinton, passed away peacefully
Saturday, March 5, 2016 after a courageous
battle with cancer. He was surrounded by
his loving family.
Born in Putnam,
CT, he was the son
of the late Gloriette
(Bourque) and Alberic
Caisse. He was the
former husband of
Barbara
(Spencer)
Powell of Englewood,
FL and his first wife, the
late Jeanette (Nadeau) Caisse.
Richard served for many years in the
U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era as well
as the U.S. Army Reserve.
He was previously employed by the
Hilsinger Corporation in Plainville, MA.
He greatly enjoyed the outdoors, bird
watching, woodworking, gardening and
movies.
Richard is survived by his five children,
Robin Carpenter and her husband Paul of
Plainfield, CT, Richard Caisse and his wife
Pam of Dayville, CT, David Caisse and his
wife Kim of Seekonk, MA, Derrick Caisse
and his wife Kelly of Chaplin, CT, and
Kristin Dionne and her husband John of
Hopkinton, MA. He also leaves behind one
brother, Wilfred Caisse of Eugene, OR as
well as his loving Grandchildren Melissa,
Amanda, Joshua, Kelly, Kristin, David,
Elisabeth, Jack, Lucas, Preston & Samuel.
He is predeceased by two brothers, Dennis
and Paul Caisse.
A private memorial service will be
held with the family. In lieu of flowers,
donations in his memory may
be made to Dana Farber Cancer Institute,
P.O. Box 849168 Boston, MA 02284 or
www.dana-farber.org
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HOPKINTON - Eleanor L. Briere, 64, died
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at Marlborough
Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
She was the widow of the late Richard
Briere, who died in March 1988.
Born in Framingham, she was the
daughter of the late Vernon and Alice
(Peirce) Fairbanks. She was a 1969
graduate of Hopkinton High School and
worked for many years at Dennison. She is
survived by her sons David and Robert and
her brother Donald Fairbanks of Milford.
She also leaves her close friend Doris
Carver of Hopkinton.
Visitation was held at the Callanan
Cronin Funeral Home, 34 Church Street.
A graveside service followed at Evergreen
Cemetery.
Mendon, MA and formerly Hopkinton,
MA- George Warren West passed away
peacefully on February 25, 2016 after
a long illness, surrounded by his loving
family. He was 78 years young.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years,
Marjory West; his children, Peter, Adam,
Steven, and Amanda; his older sister
Nancy Mann and younger sister Martha
Nazak; seven grandchildren, and many
close friends.
Born and raised in Newton, MA; George
was a 35-year resident of Hopkinton and
spent the last 10 years in Mendon, MA.
George was a partner at Joseph H. Albert in
Needham, MA for over 30 years and upon
his retirement a Scholarship was created in
his name.
In his free time, you’d find George
woodworking, restoring antique cars,
reading everything under the sun, spending
time with his family and friends at Queen
Lake or playing cards with friends every
Friday night.
A funeral service was held in memory of
George West at the Unitarian Universalist
Church in Mendon. In lieu of flowers,
please make a donation to Salvation Army,
Claflin Hill Symphony, or a charity of your
choice.
Arrangements are under the care of the
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28, 2016 after a 10-year battle with multiple
system atrophy. Born in Hyde Park, MA.,
he was the son of Mildred (Boyd) and
Charles E. Porter. Ralph was an Air Force
Veteran.
He and his wife Barbara (Bowman)
Porter of Hopkinton recently celebrated
their 40th wedding anniversary on
February 14th. Besides his wife, Barbara
and their daughter Larabeth P. Goett, he
is survived by his former wife, Patricia R.
Porter and their four children, Charles E.
Porter, David B. Porter, P. Jeffrey Porter,
and Gail L. Stankiewicz. He leaves behind
eight grandchildren and his sister Alma
Schora. He is predeceased by his siblings,
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nationwide as the President of the National
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His passion in life was running, leading
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for 20 Boston Marathons, and then meeting
the challenge of running Mt. Washington
twice.
Private burial will take place in Bourne
National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
donations in his memory may be made
to the BAA, Northeastern University,
or
Pilgrim Congregational Church,
Southborough, MA.
Arrangements are under the care of the
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Sebastian R. Silvestro
WAREHAM - Sebastian R. “Jim”
Silvestro, 79, formerly of Hopkinton, died
at his home in Onset on February 19, 2016.
He was the husband of Mary Geraldine
“Jerri” (Rooney) Silvestro, to whom he
was married for 48 years.
Born in Boston, he was the son of the
late Domenico and Carmella (Raciti)
Silvestro. He attended Roxbury Memorial
High School for Boys in the 1950s and
was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He worked
as a truck driver for a variety of Bostonarea companies and drove school buses for
Framingham Public Schools.
In addition to his wife, he is survived
by his son Sebastian J. Silvestro and wife
Heather Clary of MD, his daughters Kerra
Lynn Silvestro and partner Antwan Rogers
of FL and Kelli Ann Silvestro of Taunton,
and three grandchildren Xavier Rogers,
Alexandra Rogers and O’Neil Silvestro.
In addition, he leaves his brothers Dominic
and wife Cheryl, Ralph and wife Josephine,
Frank and wife Jeanne and Joseph and wife
Dorothy; and his sister Constance Saraceno
and husband Guy. He is predeceased by
his daughter Carmella Ann Silvestro who
died
in 1970.
A funeral Mass was held. in St. John the
Evangelist Church, Hopkinton. Burial
took place. in Glenwood Cemetery, Natick.
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Coast VNA and Hospice, 200 Mill Road,
Fairhaven, MA 02719.
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Hillers Complete Successful Winter Seasons
by Jean Cann
Tri-Valley League titles, playoff
berths, and winning records abounded
for Hopkinton High School teams during
the winter sports season. The girls’ track
& field, and girls’ and boys’ swimming
& diving teams captured TVL team
championship titles and also earned many
post-season accolades, while boys’ track &
field finished second in the league. Boys’
hockey compiled its strongest season ever,
advancing to the Division 3 South semifinal game. The boys’ and girls’ basketball
teams each earned playoff spots. The
wrestling team saw two earn Division 2
sectional titles and five earn TVL All Star
honors. The cheerleaders won the Game
Day State Cheer Championship.
In the pool, seven girls and two boys
captured first-team TVL honors and both
teams won the TVL championship title.
Sam Richardson and UMass-bound diver
Reece Donahue earned first-team league
honors. Lydia Franklin, Olivia Handrahan,
Alyssa Annenberg, Emily Wei, Mattie
Stauss, Grace Cavanaugh, and Abigail
Fischer all took top TVL honors. Divers
Stauss and Annenberg also took first and
second at the South/Central meet, leading
Hopkinton to a runner-up finish. The pair
swapped positions at the Division 1 AllState Championship and took second and
fourth boosting Hopkinton to ninth place.
The girls’ track & field team took its
traditional spot at the top of the TVL after
an undefeated regular season. Hurdler
Caitlyn Halloran and middle distance
runner Isabelle Giordano earned first-team
TVL honors. Giordano went on to win the
1,000m run at the Division 3 State sectional
meet, and teamed up with Halloran, Emily
Mastroianni, and Taylor Velazquez to place
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leading the team to a runner-up league
finish. Gwil O’Rourke qualified for the All
State Championship in the high jump.
While Cam Finlayson earned the only
first team TVL honor for the Hillers boys’
hockey team, the whole team contributed to
a breakthrough season. With a 19-4 record
this season, the Hillers showed how far
they’ve come, as the varsity team during
the seniors’ freshman year only won four
games. Finlayson scored his 100th career
point during the playoff run. The Hillers
won their first round Division 3 South
game against Bourne, 4-0, and notched a
4-1 quarter-final win over Cohasset, before
losing to defending champion Norwell
The girls’ basketball team clinched a
playoff berth well before the end of the
season. During their successful season,
they won the Westborough Tournament,
with Julia Canestari named tournament
MVP and Mikayla Pucci making the AllTournament team. After beating Ashland
in the quarterfinals of Division 2 Central,
the Hillers fell to top-seeded Notre Dame
Academy in the semi-final round.
TVL first teamer Nic Canal led a slowstarting boys’ basketball squad to a playoff
spot with a winning run at the end of the
season, capped off by a 63-61 win over
Westwood. The Hillers fell to Medfield in
the Division 2 Central quarterfinals.
All-State runner-up Josh Sokol led
the Hillers’ wrestlers. The heavyweight
won the Division 2 Central sectional
and the Division 2 State title on the way
to the All State meet. Teammate Lukas
Kaminsky also won Division 2 State and
Sectional titles at 145 pounds. The pair,
along with Ryan Mastrioianni, Wyatt
Beach, and Charlie Dumas earned firstteam TVL accolades. The team took fourth
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Hopkinton
Varsity
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State
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by Betsy Bellar
Last Sunday marked an incredible
accomplishment for the Hopkinton
Varsity Cheerleaders, winning a State
Championship.
For this winter competitive season,
the Hillers cheer team entered a brand
new Massachusetts Secondary School
Administrators’ Association (MSSAA)
division, called Game Day. The focus
of the Game Day division is a positive
performance experience for the crowd,
combined with athletic skill and
precision. Game Day routines feature
three performances - Time Out Cheer,
Game Situation Sideline, and Half-Time
Performance.
Of the 15 athletes on the team, nine were
brand new to the sport of cheerleading
having only joined the team in the second
week of December. Over the last nine
weeks under the direction of the coaches
and leadership of the three captains,
these athletes transformed into the team
that performed on Sunday, determined to
succeed. Their passion, their courage to
try something new, and relentless pursuit
of greatness that led to Hopkinton’s first
State Championship, and the first ever
Game Day State Champion in the state of
Massachusetts.
Head Coach Melissa Zwang said
“The coaches are so incredibly proud of
this team. To my seniors, Maia Guelfi,
Michelle Horrigan, and Brooke Bellar
thank you for all your hard work, loyalty,
and contributions to the continued success
of Hopkinton Cheerleading. We will
miss you.” Coach Zwang also credits
her assistant coaches, Alison Kiely, Tia
Mastrogianis, and Tracy Stickney for their
incredible contributions to the team. The
heart of a Hiller beats strong.
March 24, 2016
Basketball skills
The Hopkinton Basketball Association held its second annual skills competition was on
March 13 at Brown Gym. Participants in grades four through eight competed in three
events: free throws, 3-pointers and a variety shootout.
Winners and runners-up included:
FREE THROWS
Grade 8 boys winner: Jason
Hicks
Grade 8 boys runner-up: Ellis
Spar
Grade 7 boys winner: Brian
Keefe
Grade 7 boys runner-up:
Teddy Henneberry
Grade 6 boys winner: Nick
Paharik
Caleb Rahaim
Grade 5 boys winner: Andrew
Hopkinton Basketball Skills winners
Peters
Quinn O’Connor
Grade 4 boys winner: Sam Pantera
Grade 4 girls winner: Elena Davies
Grade 4 boys runner-up: Christian Pereira
Grade 4 girls runner-up: Isabella
Grade 6 girls winner: Lauren Cho
Resteghini
Grade 6 girls runner-up: Carly Hedstrom
Grade 5 girls winner: Kelsea McCoy
SHOOTOUT
Grade 5 girls runner-up: Emme Joy
Grade 8 boys winner: Jason Hicks
Grade 4 girls winner: Elena Davies
Grade 8 boys runner-up: Ellis Spar
Grade 4 girls runner-up: Isabella Resteghini
Grade 7 boys winner: Cameron Mulvaney
Grade 7 boys runner-up: Teddy
3-POINTERS
Henneberry
Grade 8 boys winner: Jason Hicks
Grade 6 boys winner: John Wauters
Grade 8 boys runner-up: Ellis Spar
Grade 6 boys runner-up: Matthew
Grade 7 boys winner: Brian Keefe
Coffman
Grade 7 boys runner-up: Teddy Henneberry
Grade 5 boys winner: Ryan Hicks
Grade 6 boys winner: Matthew Coffman
Grade 5 boys runner-up: Charlie Simulis
Grade 6 boys runner-up: Kyler Spar
Grade 4 boys winner: Sam Pantera
Grade 5 boys winner: Rowan Smith
Grade 4 boys runner-up: Christian Pereira
Grade 5 boys runner-up: Tyler Mulvaney
Grade 6 girls winner: Lauren Cho
Grade 4 boys winner: Christian Pereira
Grade 6 girls runner-up: Caitlin Dempsey
Grade 4 boys runner-up: Sam Pantera
Grade 5 girls winner: Emme Joy
Grade 6 girls winner: Carly Hedstrom
Grade 5 girls runner-up: Kelsea McCoy
Grade 6 girls runner-up: Grace Joy/Lauren Cho
Grade 4 girls winner: Isabella
Grade 5 girls winner: Emme Joy
Resteghini
Grade 5 girls runner-up: Kelsea McCoy
Grade 4 girls runner-up: Elena Davies
Destination Imagination
team a winner
Hopkinton Destination Imagination Middle School level
team came in first in the engineering challenge at the
Regional competition on Saturday. They will compete in
the state tournament at WPI on March 26. Left to right:
Mihika Abraham, Akila Sanjay, Lisa Giusti (manager),
courtesy photo
Michael Giusti and Ananth Sanjay.
Sports (continued from back page)
Harrison Sullivan, Hamilton ’16, ran a leg on the 10th place distance medley relay at
the ECAC Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship on March 5 at the Ocean
Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island.
Alexis Torosian, American International ’17, made 12 saves in her lacrosse team’s 1113 loss to Molloy on March 4. She picked up the win (10-9) over Florida Tech on March
9 with nine saves. On March 15, she made two saves in a 23-5 win over Post.
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Troop 1 Eagle Scouts Recognized
by Michelle Murdock
Selectmen at their March 15 meeting approved proclamations for three Troop 1
Eagle Scouts: Trevor Perkins,
Matthew Paolucci and Samuel
Darkow. All three scouts
worked on projects that
involved trails.
Trevor Perkins’ project
involved working on a
connector trail from Whisper
Way to Cameron Woods.
Perkins was responsible for
coordinating the work of 14
scouts in addition to several
friends and family members
who helped with the project,
including cutting trees and
shrubs and clearing the trail, for a total of 74.5 hours.
Paolucci’s project involved a trail off of Cross Street. The project was given to him
by the Hopkinton Area Land Trust (HALT) and required trail maintenance and making
a bench. Paolucci said the rocks and poison ivy on the trail made the work particularly
challenging, but with proper planning and preparation, the job was easier to complete.
Darkow also worked on a HALT trail; one that was approximately ½ to ¾ of mile
near the Fruit Street fields. The project involved clearing and leveling the trail, cleaning
up trash, maintenance on a 14 foot bridge and putting in trail markers. The project took
about 2 ½ to 3 months to complete and was more work than expected.
All three scouts were commended by the board for their hard work and community
service.
“Well done and congratulations,” said Brian Herr. “Thank you for your improvements
to the community. This is something that you will carry with you for the rest of your life.
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College Sports
Notes...
by Jean Cann
Hunter Burdick, Nazareth ’17, had one
assist in his lacrosse team’s 13-9 win over
Cortland on March 4. He had two goals and
two assists in a 17-7 win over Clarkson on
March 12. In an 8-13 loss to York on March
18, he scored a pair of goals.
Nick Burns, Johns Hopkins ’18, started
on the mound in his baseball team’s 8-7
win over Amherst on March 15. He pitched
4.2 innings and struck out six, allowing
eight hits and four runs.
Francesca Casasanta, Worcester State
’16, finished ninth in the high jump
(1.59m/5′ 2½″) at the ECAC Division III
Indoor Track & Field Championship held
on March 4 and 5 at Staten Island’s Ocean
Breeze Athletic Center.
Tess Chandler, Boston College ’17,
scored two goals and added two assists in
her lacrosse team’s 17-9 win over Navy on
March 5. In a 5-13 loss to Florida on March
11, she had one assist. On March 13, in an
18-10 win over Stetson, she had two goals
and one assist.
Jaclyn Chirco, Assumption ’17, made 13
saves in her lacrosse team’s 12-9 win over
Molloy. In a 15-2 loss to LIU on March 8,
she made eight saves. In a March 12 win
(16-7) over Dominican, Chirco had four
saves.
Anthony DeBenedetto, Tufts ’16, closed
out his collegiate swimming career at
the NCAA Division III championship in
Greensboro, North Carolina on March 16
through 18. He finished 38th in the 100
yard butterfly in 50.30, bettering both his
qualifying time (50.75) and seed (41st). In
the preliminaries of the 200 butterfly he
finished 22nd in 1:51.60.
Matt Decina, Plymouth State ’19, had
an RBI in the first game of a doubleheader
against Bethel in Ft. Meyers, Florida on
March 11. Plymouth State lost 3-11. In the
next game, the Panthers came closer but
fell 8-3. Decina had two hits, walked once,
and scored a run. On March 12, in a 9-8
win over Skidmore, Decina had two hits
and two runs. In a 7-2 loss to Amherst, he
had one run. On March 14, in a 4-2 win
over North Park, he had one hit, one walk,
and two RBIs. On March 17, he scored a
run in a 6-5 win over Edgewood.
Lindsey Doucette, UMass Lowell ’16,
earned America East All-Conference
Third Team honors for basketball. She
led her team in scoring (average 14 points
per game) and rebounding (average eight
rebounds per game), as well as steals (29),
blocks (21), and field goals (171). She
surpassed 1,000 career points on February
3, making her the 15th player in program
history, and first since turning Division I,
to reach that milestone. She finished her
career with 1,099 points, tenth all-time. She
also ranks fourth for blocks (106), sixth for
rebounds (794) and seventh for field goals
(457). Additionally, her 19 career doubledoubles, including seven this season, lead
all active players.
This season, Doucette also set a personal
best for points in a season, with 393.
Connor Farrell, Kenyon ’17, struck out
two and allowed three runs in his season
March 24, 2016
debut on the mound as his baseball
team fell 7-3 to Wilkes on March 6. The
following day, he struck out one and
allowed one run in a 4-3 loss to Drew. In
a 9-6 win over Westminster on March 10,
he pitched three innings, striking out three
and allowing only one hit and no runs.
On March 11, he earned a win over Penn
State Behrend with three strike outs and
one hit in the 3-2 victory. Farrell started
and earned another win on March 15, with
a 14-8 contest over Albright. He pitched
the first five innings and struck out four,
allowing four runs, and eight hits.
team’s 13-8 win over Norwich on March
5. In an 18-9 win over Mt. Ida on March 9,
he had a goal, an assist, five ground balls,
and two caused turnovers. On March 12, in
an 8-15 loss to Lasell, he picked up seven
ground balls and caused two turnovers.
Jimmy Hervol, UConn’19, shot 15-over
80-70-81=231 to tie for 34th place at the
Colleton River Collegiate in Bluffton,
South Carolina on March 7 and 8. He
helped his team to a sixth place finish in
the 12 team field.
Alissa Karjel, St. Bonaventure ’19,
walked twice and scored a run in her
softball team’s 5-3 win over Seton Hall on
March 4 in the Under Armor Invitational in
Clearwater, Florida.
Alden Hosmer, Babson ’17, won at
number five singles, 6-3, 6-0 to help his
tennis team to a 9-0 win over Messiah
at Altamonte Springs, Florida on March
11. On March 14 in Orlando, he beat his
Illinois Wesleyan opponent, 6-2, 6-3 at
number five singles, again helping his
team to a 9-0 win.
Emily Jarvis, Holy Cross ’16, went three
for four with a triple and two doubles in her
softball team’s 6-1 win over Sacred Heart
on March 6 at the Rebel Spring Games in
Kissimmee, Florida. The following day,
she hit an RBI double, walked twice, and
scored two runs as her team fell to South
Dakota State, 8-5.
Andrew Johnson, UMass Dartmouth
’16, scored a goal, caused two turnovers,
and had seven ground balls in his lacrosse
Paul Lagasse, Middlebury ’16, was
named to the Academic All NESCAC
(New England Small College Athletic
Conference) Team for the 2015-16 winter
season. To earn the honor, athletes needed
to have earned a varsity letter, and have a
cumulative GPA of 3.35 or higher.
Denny LaMachia, Delaware ’17, won
at number two singles 6-3, 6-4 and at
number one doubles, 6-2 as her tennis
team beat Bucknell 4-3 on March 5. The
following day, Delaware fell to Navy 3-4
but LaMachia won second singles, 7-6 (86), 6-3 and at the top doubles spot, 6-4.
She picked up another pair of wins in a
7-0 win over Longwood on March 12, 6-2,
4-6, 10-7 at second singles, and 6-0 for first
doubles.
Emily O’Connor, Skidmore ’18, scored a
goal in her lacrosse team’s season opener,
a 14-4 win over Hartwick on March 2. She
also picked up a ground ball, caused one
turnover, and had a draw control.
Taylor Sokol, UMass Lowell ’18, scored
two goals in her lacrosse team’s 4-7 loss to
Quinnipiac on March 11.
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