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Following a unanimous Town Meeting vote to fund a Center School feasibility study, Hopkinton’s Elementary School Building Committee (ESBC) met recently to discuss next steps. At the May 22 and June 5 meetings, ESBC members expressed a desire to use time over the Summer to develop foundational knowledge that may be helpful once the formal Feasibility Study is initiated, as well as plan community engagement activities.

The Patrick Administration today launched “Informed Massachusetts” – a user-friendly website that consolidates the Open Government and Transparency web pages previously found on Mass.gov. Informed Massachusetts pulls together these sites into a unified portal, creating a user-friendly site through which citizens can quickly and easily find information.

From the Hopkinton Public Schools: The closure of Main Street eastbound began this morning, Monday, June 17. Main Street eastbound will be closed from Pleasant Street to Grove Street from 7:30 - 4:00 until further notice. All eastbound traffic will be detoured onto Pleasant Street. Police details will be directing traffic along the detour. Main Street westbound will remain open.

The Hopkinton Police Department is issuing a public service advisory regarding a popular phone extortion scam that continues to victimize members of this community. In these cases generally an unknown person(s) will call or text the victim and make claims that a family member is under arrest or being held captive and needs money to be sent for their release. The caller may know basic information about the family member. If you are contacted by a party alleging they have a family member in custody it may help to:

The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) announced on June 14 that 2013 Boston Marathon® men's champion Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, will compete in the 2013 B.A.A. 10K on Sunday, June 23. Desisa will compete among Olympic and World Championship finalists, national record holders, and the defending champions of the B.A.A. Distance Medley. The B.A.A. 10K is the second race of the 2013 B.A.A. Distance Medley, a three-race series which awards $100,000 USD to the male and female with the fastest cumulative time from the three races. In addition, the B.A.A.

Help! An All Beatles cover band will be kicking off the 2013 Concerts on the Common series this Sunday, June 16th. All concerts begin at 5pm and take place on the Hopkinton Town Common.

The series schedule includes:
6/23 - Still Burnin' - Southern Rock
6/30 - Playing Dead - Grateful Dead
7/7 - Roy Scott Big Band - Jazz
7/14 - Black Marmott - Soft Rock
7/21 - Schnauzer & Overshine - New Rock
7/28 - Reminiscants - Oldies
8/4 - Hopkinton Community Summer Band
8/11 - Rogers - Big Band

All concerts will replay on HCAM-TV.

Sign up for summer reading starting on June 24th! Here's how to sign up:

• Sign in @ the library and pick up a paper reading log or sign in and keep track of your reading hours on-line. The on-line link is on the website.
• You can earn ONE LIBRARY BUCK for every hour that you read!
• Starting July 8 you may spend your library loot at the library store.
• ALL READING COUNTS for your reading time: books, magazines, newspapers, Kindles or Nooks and audio books!!!!!

Can we sign up more readers than last summer? 577 is the number to beat!

For the second year in a row, Project Just Because will be holding their Christmas in July fundraiser on Tuesday, July 25 from 7-10PM at the Project Just Because headquarters at 86 South Street in Hopkinton. The original fundraiser was created in the Summer of 2012 when Project Just Because found themselves very low on cash and wondering how to pay their bills.

Two Paths Productions hosts a special performance of a new immersive theatrical experience on Friday, June 28 at 7pm in Hopkinton MA. The play depicts the violence unleashed upon Sikhs in Delhi in October 1984, following the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, from the perspective of a group of young Sikh children from one of the poorest and worst affected neighborhoods.

The Planning Board met on June 10 to continue discussion on a proposed Dunkin Donuts at 78 West Main Street in Hopkinton. Attorney Michael Healy, John Kucich from Bohler Engineering, Manny Tavarez from MJ Tavarez Architects, and applicant Virginio Sardinha Jr. were present at the meeting.