Weekly News Roundup – 04/04/2021
Covid-19 Updates and Vaccine Information • Hopkinton Covid-19 Vaccine Information • HPS Covid Case Tracking • Town Health Department fines youth hockey program for COVID violations • From Hopkinton to Framingham, volunteers help teachers secure COVID-19 vaccine appointments • Schools prepare for K-5 full-time return Monday; Juneteenth holiday to be added • HPD partners with Middlesex Sheriff’s Office on training • Wilson Street solar array gets Planning Board OK after addressing stormwater concerns • Hopkinton seniors have new free transportation option thanks to MAPC grant • Free furniture/electronics drop-off event April 24 • Town party caucuses planned for early April • MAIN STREET CORRIDOR PROJECT Q&A – 3/30 AT 7PM • Resident hopes to start movement to preserve Old Town Road • ConCom continues discussions on proposed Chamberlain/Whalen subdivision • Select Board OK’s moving Town Meeting to May 8, Town Election to May 22
Covid-19 Updates & Precautions
As of 04/02/21, Hopkinton’s Health Department is reporting 886 total confirmed COVID-19 cases; 45 of those cases are active, with 824 recoveries and 17 deaths. You can see historical tracking and updates on Hopkinton’s Community Impact Dashboard which is updated frequently.
This week’s new Covid Updates include:
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 weekly Public Health Report
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health Weekly COVID-19 Vaccination Report
- Hopkinton High School Traffic Patterns Changing
Related News and Resources:
Hopkinton Covid-19 Vaccine Information
HPS Covid Case Tracking
HPS has created a new COVID case tracking dashboard by school, updated regularly- HPS COVID-19 Dashboard
Town Health Department fines youth hockey program for COVID violations
A youth hockey program was fined $2,100 by the Hopkinton Health Department for allegedly failing to ensure its players were following COVID rules following a team’s appearance in a tournament in Pennsylvania earlier this month.
From Hopkinton to Framingham, volunteers help teachers secure COVID-19 vaccine appointments
Parent volunteers are banding together to find Covid-19 vaccination appointment for teachers.
Schools prepare for K-5 full-time return Monday; Juneteenth holiday to be added
School personnel have experienced a “dizzying week’’ as they prepare for students in kindergarten through Grade 5 to return to school full-time Monday, April 5, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told members of the Hopkinton School Committee at Thursday’s meeting.
“Everyone has been working enormously hard’’ to get ready, she said. Their hard work, she hopes, will make the transition “appear seamless to the children.’’
HPD partners with Middlesex Sheriff’s Office on training
Hopkinton Police Chief Joseph Bennett and Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian today announced that 24 members of the Hopkinton Police Department recently completed interactive, scenario-based training utilizing the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office’s (MSO) Mobile Training Center (MTC).
The training was conducted March 22-26 in Hopkinton.
Wilson Street solar array gets Planning Board OK after addressing stormwater concerns
The Planning Board at Monday’s meeting voted 6-1 in favor of three respective amendments to the solar special permit and stormwater management permit for the proposed 2.4-megawatt solar array off Wilson Street.
Principal planner John Gelcich showed the board a March 1 email from Narragansett Indian Tribe representative Cora Peirce that indicated the tribe “will do onsite monitoring during the construction.”
King noted that the stones that were memorialized were preserved in the new layout. A sheet shows the location of the stones in relationship to the arrays.
Related Article:
Solar By-Law – The Whole Story
Hopkinton seniors have new free transportation option thanks to MAPC grant
Carson started looking for other options, and last fall she found one: a transportation grant from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC). Because the organization was overwhelmed with applications, Hopkinton only recently was approved, Carson said. Starting April 1, the town will receive $40,000 to cover taxi/livery service for seniors (60 and over), veterans and those who are homebound due to a disability. Transportation can be not only to medical visits but for essential shopping as well.
Free furniture/electronics drop-off event April 24
In honor of Earth Day 2021, Green Team Junk Removal and the Hopkinton Sustainable Green Committee are sponsoring a drop-off event for furniture and electronics. The event will be held on Saturday, April 24, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at approximately noon, depending on when capacity is reached. The location will be the north parking lot of the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 98 Hayden Rowe St. Residents should enter via the main High School entrance and exit via the Loop Road.