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Welcome in the new year with a new you! Now is the Perfect Time to do something about your Resolution to find a new job or a new career direction!

Welcome in the new year with a new you! Now is the Perfect Time to do something about your Resolution to find a new job or a new career direction!

The Hopkinton Area Land Trust is offering $1000 scholarships to a graduating high school student or students from the town of Hopkinton whose intent is to major in conservation, ecology, natural resources/wildlife management, or the environmental sciences. Applications can be downloaded from here, which provides more details. Try to submit as early as possible. We plan to inform winners by the end of April.

The Basic Rights workshop takes place on Tuesday, March 29 at the Hopkinton Middle School Lecture Hall, 88 Hayden Rowe Street, from 7:00-9:00 PM. The workshop provides families with an introduction to their rights and responsibilities under:

-Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
-Massachusetts Special Education Law

"By virtue of its corporate life, when we are shadows the Hopkinton Public Library will flourish in perpetual youth, showering blessings with a liberal hand upon a people as yet unborn but whose thankful lips will praise the work which our hands have done."
~ Alfred Hemenway, 1895 Hopkinton Public Library Dedication Address

Hopkinton SEPAC is the Special Education Parent Advisory Council. Hopkinton SEPAC membership is open to any and all parties. You do not have to have a child with special needs to join. If your child has or you know a child who has trouble reading, writing, understanding math, has an identified disability or perhaps is undiagnosed, but definitive presence of a physical, intellectual, emotional disability, organizational or attention difficulties or allergies, join Hopkinton SEPAC to learn more about these and other areas in the developing child.