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Vol. 1 No. 12
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Overwhelmed by Community Response, Hopedale Package Store Back In Business!! By Marjorie Turner Hollman After the Hopedale Package Store was nearly destroyed when a car drove through the front of the store this past September, it was difficult to imagine the business could ever be restored. But stopping by the store today, open now since Thanksgiving, the inside looks like new, there is doublepaned glass in the front wall, and Maria Neves, along with her sons Gary and Kevin, are back at the cash register, open for business. The Neves family was overwhelmed by the response from the community, and they were especially gratified by the response from people who read the article published in the December issue of the Local Town Pages. “We had people who came by specifically because of the newspaper article,” Maria noted. “People who had never come here before stopped in and told us they would be
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bringing their business here from now on. It was amazing.” Maria began to tear up as she recalled the welcome they received at the store’s reopening. “We had parents with their children, bringing us balloons.
We received at least nine flower arrangements, cards—it was amazing.” Gary noted how fortunate they were that his brother was able to come to the store immediately after the accident
and that family friends who are general contractors were able to come right away. “They knew what they were doing, and got
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For the first time in school history the Hopedale girl’s volleyball team made it to the Division 3 Central Championship contest. Earning an eight seed with their 13-5 regular season record the Blue Raiders shutout Ayer-Shirley, Tri-Country and Bethany Christian en route to the title game, where they fell to Sutton. Junior libero Lauren Kelly, who was selected to the Dual Valley Conference All-Star team and was named the Hopedale MVP,
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