Visit us at Polyarts on Saturday, Sept. 6!

Events

Current and Upcoming Events

New in September 2025:
Changes to Your Eversource Bill

Thanks to the town's new Municipal Aggregation Plan, you now have four choices for your supply of electricity. See Hopkinton Power Choice for more information.

September 6, 2025:
Find us at Hopkinton Polyarts!

Saturday, September 6 from 10-4, we'll be at Polyarts on the Town Common, providing information you can use and answering questions. Come try and stump us!

May - October 2025:
Help Water Pollinator Gardens

We're looking for kids and adults to spend 30 minutes at a time watering the new pollinator gardens. You pick the dates and times. Easy instructions are provided. Find out more

Right Now: Special Offer!

Hopkinton is offering a free bin and starter pack of bin liners for residents who sign up for the Black Earth composting pickup service. The more people who sign up, the lower the rates! More information

Replays

Video series about composting

Watch the series of short videos by Hopkinton residents about our trash problem and composting as a way to help address it.

#4 with Linda Chuss - it's easy and cheap to compost in your backyard

#3 with Diane Hayward - The Black Earth cubrside pickup service is easy to use

#2 with Deena Baker-Nel - Scraps as trash or resource?

#1 with Christine Coffman - Hopkinton's Trash Opportunity - the why and the how.

And check out the incentive to use the Black Earth service. The offer won't last forever!

Past Events

We helped Julia Chun, Hopkinton's Sustainability, Economic Development and Equity Project Manager, sponsor two presentations on the new Municipal Aggregation Plan in July, 2025

Talks and Plant Sale at the Senior Center, April and May 2025

We helped create an educational garden at the Hopkinton Public Library in 2025

"Get the Dirt on Composting" at the Hopkinton Public Library in June 2024

Helping with a pollinator garden at the YMCA for Shaurya Patni's Eagle Scout project

We proposed the specialized building code which PASSED by nearly a 2/3 margin at Town Meeting in May, 2024

Garden Club plant sale, May 2024

Residents responsibly recycled clothing, household items, and dehumidifiers at the May 2024 recycling day. Food donations, too!

Hopkinton EV Expo, including plug-in hybrids and e-bikes, April 2025

Annual Update to the Select Board

Watch the Video on HCAM YouTube (starts ~1hr in)
See PDF of the slides

Volunteers from Faith Community Church cleaned up a very trashy spot.

The "Green Dream Home" has been on display at the Hopkinton Public Library and at Town Hall. It shows large and small ways in which you can make your home more sustainable, and save money!