Your committee has taken up this matter of location (of a new fire station) with care. There is only one unoccupied lot available in the center of the town and near the works of the Draper Company, which are the most important premises to be protected by its fire department. This land is located on Dutcher Street, between Social and Chapel streets, at the rear of the Draper Company office. The Draper Company has agreed to deed to the town about 14,000 feet of land on the corner of Dutcher and Social streets, approximately 100 feet on Dutcher Street and 140 feet on Social Street and to take in exchange the lot on which the present hose house is located and containing about 3700 feet of land together with the building thereon. 1915 Town Report |
The parking lot at the corner of Adin and Hopedale streets, where the Brae-Burn Inn stood until it was razed in 1957. |
a fire alarm box on Northrop Street, and that the sum of ($110) one hundred and ten dollars be raised and appropriated for the same. Town Warrant, April 9, 1909 |
March - and it looks like it. |
The Scion in Winter |
Hopedale Village Cemetery - March 1. |
Hopedale in March 2014 Hopedale in February Ezine for March 1 - Hopedale High Became Church March 15 - Hopedale High School - the Early Years Ezine Menu HOME . |
That's where it came from - Whitin Machine, Whitinsville. Known as :"the shop" to locals says the Wikipedia article. Yes, just like Drapers in Hopedale. |
Having gone this far, I decided that Whitin Machine and Whitinsville might as well be my neighboring town photos for March. In addition to the two below, Click here for more. |
No, not this year. I just happened to run across this on the July 2008 page. |
A little frost on the windshield - March 4. |
March 6 - Spring is just around the corner but it's still a bit cool in the morning. |
Palestine? The Harel House??? I see things like this frequently that make me wonder what the interest or the connection is. |
March 9, 2014 |
Library on March 12. Talk by Marty Foley, left, lead state police detective on the Dr. Dirk Greineder murder case, and Boston Herald reporter-Tom Farmer on right. Foley and Farmer at the authors of A Murder in Wellesley.. |
I noticed this when I was looking for Hopedale items on eBay -The Adin Balloon statue. Full of helium? Hope it doesn't float away. |
Spindleville Pond - March 14. |
Here's a little quiz for you. See if you can figure which one of these tables of statistics is for Hopedale, which is for Mendon, and which is for Upton. I found them on How Well Do You Know the Neighborhood page.. I got to that with a link on Jack Broderick's real estate email. Scroll down to the bottom of this page for the answers. |
Town statistics quiz answers. Upper left - Mendon Upper right - Hopedale Bottom - Upton |
That identical party affiliation for all three towns certainly can't be right. My guess is that it might be for the whole county and they just put it down as though it's the same for each town. I checked Milford. It's the same there, too. It can't be congressional district. Hopedale isn't the same as Mendon and Upton. Doesn't seem it could be state senate or house either. Water and air quality the same also. Weather, too. In that case, I'd say it makes sense that they'd use numbers that cover a wider area than just individual towns. |
It used to be named the Milford Drive-in. More recently, the Mendon Drive-in. Will it become the Phantom Drive-in soon? |
for the ice fishermen to beware of thin ice just yet. |
To our Devoted Patrons and Friends, We would like to take this opportunity to let you all know that we have sold the drive-in. This has not been an easy decision for us but we feel strongly that we have found the perfect buyers who intend on keeping the spirit and tradition of the drive-in alive. We are proud to announce the new owners are Michael, Dave, & Dan Andelman from The Phantom Gourmet. They are interested in the preservation of the drive-in as well as expanding new horizons in keeping with a joyous outdoor family environment. It has been our great pleasure to have been graced with running this unique and charming business for the last 28 years and we sincerely appreciate the opportunity to have served all of you. We never would have made it without your loyal patronage and your fierce love for our nostalgic drive-in. This season, we will be staying on at the drive-in to consult the Andelmans for an easy transition into the drive-in business. We look forward to having this season to say our good byes and introducing you all to our new friends the Andelmans. Through the years we have cultivated many beautiful friendships and watched so many children grow up before our eyes! We say farewell to all of you with a heavy heart and tears in our eyes, but we look forward to the future of the drive-in and all of the memories still yet to be made. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for making these the happiest years of our lives! Looking forward to seeing all of you at the drive-in this season to enjoy a "night of movies under the stars"! All our love, Kathy & Sue |
Bare ground is starting to show up - March 15 |
It is now expected that the new school building will be completed and ready for use with the opening of the fall term. We refer to the report of the Superintendent...and especially to his recommendation in regard to opening one room in the new building for kindergarten work. This is certainly worth trying as an experiment, and if the results do not justify the expense it can be discontinued at any time. We recommend as an appropriation for regular school work of 1898, the sum of $6,500, or if the town thinks best to have the kindergarten added, the sum of $6,800. For the School Committee, Frank J. Dutcher, Secretary. Dutcher Street School, opened 1898. |
Hopedale tree warden Walter Swift has been tapping maple trees near Memorial School and (in this photo) on the Community House lawn. Here's a bit from his Facebook posting today. (March !7) Well, just boiled 40 gallons of Maple Sap down to one gallon of the most elegant, pristine, silky smooth tasting organic natural non fructose added maple syrup that you would ever imagine. One hundred gallons to go.
the maples at Memorial. Click here to see him doing that. |
Signs of spring at the town park. |
Signs on Community House lawn. |
House block - March 20. |
Hopedale Pond - March 20 - the first day of spring. This is the date that the pond was clear of ice in the lower end in 2008, 2009 and 2011. The latest it's been in recent years was April 2 in 2005. The earliest was February 20, 2012, but in that year it refroze and was gone again by March 8. Click here to see the page on iceout at Hopedale Pond. |
Click on the picture to go to the story of where the millstones at the town park came from and how they got to park. |
This friendly Irish wolfhound can be seen being walked in town quite often. |
Spindleville Pond - March 29. The part of the pond visible from Mill Street was free of ice, although there was still a little up around the bend. That may have been gone later in the day, or certainly by the next day. The lower end of Hopedale Pond remains pretty much covered. |