Looking to try something new? Head down to Bison Burger at Hopkinton Square for something you've never seen in Hopkinton or Holliston Before. Bison Burger opened in February, and since then readers have been asking where they can find a menu for the restaurant. The short answer is that they don't have a website yet (one is under construction at the moment).  Here are a few pictures of the menu to help you decide what you want before you visit. Some ideas include: Bison Balls: Seasoned ground bison and cheddar cheese fried in pastry. Bison Dog: Steamed and topped off the way you like. Bison …

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner residents Irish for life and Irish for a day are looking to get their fill on traditional Irish fare. On top of the list is corned beef, a salt-cured meat, popular with cabbage or in soup. Holliston Superette is currently taking orders for two types of corned beef, grey (less salty, made without saltpeter) and red. The meat arrived earlier this week and deli workers are taking orders for the beef as it brines. Orders will be taken until March 16 but to make sure they don't miss out order yours today. The Superette is also selling Irish soda bread …

At 9:03 a.m. the Holliston Fire Department received a call for medical response needed on Cross Street. Paramedics and Events EMS responded to Electronic Recyclers International on Cross Street. "Based on the injuries to the worker, the decision was made to transport him to a trauma center by helicopter," a release from Holliston Fire Chief Michael Cassidy said. MedFlight landed at the FEMA location on Washington Street at 9:29 a.m. and the Providence resident was transported to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. According to scanner reports the male was unconscious and had suffered a …

A Patch reader recently asked us the following question: "Where does the town put all the snow they remove from downtown and the schools?" In Hopkinton, the snow gets trucked down to Cedar Street where it is left. "That site is affectionately known as the "snow dump" because that is where we dump all the snow.  We dump snow there from intersections, the center of town, and the school parking lots," DPW Director John Westerling said. According to Westerling the site has always been used for this purpose because of its convenience to crucial snow removal areas.

Winter is here and that means snow plows need to get around town to clear the roads.  Towns across the MetroWest region have all come up with their own ways to keep cars off the road for plowing you can find the information for your town below along with several nearby towns. Framingham: Residents are invited to park on one side of the road throughout the year; in 2012 it's the even numbered side, in 2013 you'll have to switch to the odd side. When a snow emergency is declared by the Town Manager parking is prohibited on all arterial roads in town. These roads are posted with red and white …

To many people Hopkinton fared pretty well compared to other towns in the area, but early this morning Hopkinton Public Schools Superintendent Steven Hiersche made the decision to keep the schools closed for the day. "There were several roads in town that were impassable during the morning hours," Hiersche said.  Although storm damage kept the total power outages for the town below 10 percent of NStar customers, there were also enough branches down near the school buildings to cause significant safety concerns. "We had branches on the wires at the Center School and the white house [central …

Your doorbell rings, you answer it and look around. There's nobody there and you think you've been ding-dong-ditched. Wait, is that a bag? Yes, and it's full of delicious candy and goodies. Ghosting has been around for more than a decade and is a tradition that has been growing across the MetroWest region. It's been reported to the police at least once already this year, but Patch is here to help you from getting ghouled. Ghosting is simple and can be fun especially in neighborhoods with a lot of children. To start, one person fills two bags with candy and a copy of the directions (see …

Smell that? Fall is in the air. Apple Pie, apple cider, apple crisp... get the hint? Patch has been asked where local residents can go to pick their own fresh apples so we put together a list as submitted by our Facebook friends. The top farm as mentioned on Facebook was Highland Farm and Orchard. Highland Farm is located right in Holliston on Highland Street. The farm features a dozen different types of apples, all of which can be picked fresh off the tree or bought pre-picked from the farm stand. The farmers have opened about half the area to picking, the rest of the farm (including the …

If you've driven into Holliston from Milford, you may have noticed the billboard on Washington Street near the Holliston School for the Performing arts  that asks, "Is your wife Hot?" The billboard is an advertisement for Rodenhiser Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning and goes on to suggest that readers and passerby’s "Better get her A/C fixed." The billboard has been a conversation piece for people around town with several people commenting on the creativity of the advertisement. The billboard actually led one reader to ask who regulates the billboards in town so Holliston Patch found …

Have you ever wondered what needs to happen for a business in a plaza to have a specific parking spot? What if that parking spot is surrounded by a busy restaurant, a nail salon and many other businesses? This sign outside Lost Art of Life said "Parking for Lost Art of Life Only; 15 Minute Parking." According to workers in the area, though, the sign wasn't printed properly. A solution is being worked on to free up parking for short-term visitors to the plaza who will not be spending an hour in one of the businesses.

We've been posting notices for a week or so now about the Elm Street closure so the roadwork that was started last summer could be completed, but that still left some questions from community members.  @Jsward12 reached out to Hopkinton Patch on twitter (@HopkintonPatch) and asked "How long will the Elm Street construction be going on? Was the town not happy with the work done last year?" In a response from Highway Department Manager Mike Manser, he said it will be completed today. "A new sewer line was installed last year so they wanted to be sure no settling occurred within the trench …

On Wednesday afternoon, Kathleen Malmquist reached out to Patch after she found a picture of her mother's first grade class. Malmquist said her mother, Harriet Cahill, was born in 1922 and just celebrated her 90th birthday in January. The class of 1939 celebrated a reunion recently and Cahill was able to reconnect with some of her classmates from the picture, but there are still some children that she wasn't able to identify. The picture brings us back to the time before color photography but one thing doesn't look like it has changed, most of the kids did NOT like having their picture taken…

After meeting with several people around town last week that are looking to get on to Twitter, it dawned on us to give it some point for Hopkinton Patch readers and business leaders in the community that may be interested in joining the “Twitterverse”. We’ve put together a list of tips from us and around the web to help you use the social media tool to expand your horizons.  1. The first step in getting in to twitter is creating a handle (name). When you’re creating a twitter for yourself you can use parts of you name. For example, if Faith Community Church is looking to get on twitter they…

Over the weekend an incident at Cornell's Pub on Hayden Rowe Street caused several Hopkinton Patch business reviewers to question whether a bartender can refuse service. "This place has staff that are prejudice. If you are not from this area, you will get stared at. We had an after party there and many of us were from out of town," one reviewer said. Cornell's owner Rob Cornell said the person was attempting to use an out-of-state license to purchase alcohol and the bartender that was working used her discretion to not serve the patron. "It's the bartender's job to make sure they are serving …