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Craic travels fast at the Lions Club St. Patrick’s Day Lunch

March 22, 2025
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“Craic travels fast” is an Irish idiom that means news or information spreads quickly, often gossip or rumors. And you could have knocked me down with a feather when I heard the latest “craic” about The Acton Senior Citizen Newsletter during the Lions Club St. Patrick’s Day Lunch on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Now, everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! And more than 100 seniors from Acton and Boxborough enjoyed a traditional corned beef and cabbage lunch that was prepared and served by Lions Club members at the Acton Senior Center. My wife and I were seated at a table…
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The Bulletin Board – March 29, 2025

March 29, 2025
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The Acton Exchange team is pleased to announce that calendar events will now be shared in our online calendar. We invite organizations to learn how to enter their own events. Write to calendar@actonexchange.org for more details. The Acton Exchange Bulletin Board remains your site for volunteer opportunities and…
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Prism Therapy Collective opens at Kelley’s Corner

March 29, 2025
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When Rebecca Minor, founder and owner of Prism Therapy Collective, began her company last year, she and her clinicians offered their services virtually. A few weeks ago, Rebecca opened Prism’s first in-person office at Kelley’s Corner. The building is at 268 Main St., at the corner of routes…
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Wednesdays at Bistro 30

March 22, 2025
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I happened to be very hungry on Wednesday this week as I picked up some loaner medical equipment for a family member at the Acton Nursing Service at the Senior and Social Service Center, 30 Sudbury Road. It was pure serendipity that the weekly Bistro 30 was about…
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The Bulletin Board – Mar. 8, 2025

March 8, 2025
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The Acton Exchange team is pleased to announce that calendar events will now be shared in our online calendar. We invite organizations to learn how to enter their own events into the calendar. Write to calendar@actonexchange.org for more details. Volunteer opportunities and other announcements (Please send your announcements…
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Select Board Notes: Mar. 3, 2025

March 8, 2025
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Opening remarks: Opening a mercifully shorter March 3, 2025 Select Board meeting, Town Manager John Mangiaratti noted construction work in the Town Hall lobby where the Isaac Davis plow case is being rebuilt, and demolition work of the 1970s addition at the adjacent 17 Woodbury Lane Asa Parlin…
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Town and Economic Development Committee seek your input

March 8, 2025
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Here’s your opportunity to help define what Acton will look like in the coming decades. At their final Public Workshop at the Acton Memorial Library and online on February 26, RKG Associates, working for the Town of Acton Economic Development Department and Planning Department, alongside the Economic Development…
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The Bulletin Board- March 1, 2025

March 1, 2025
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The Acton Exchange team is pleased to announce that calendar events will now be shared in our online calendar. We invite organizations to  learn how to enter their own events into the calendar. Write to calendar@actonexchange.org for more details. The Acton Exchange Bulletin Board remains your site for…
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A nighttime picture of a bobcat. The night camera gives the cat a ghostly glow and its eyes look like little lights.

Acton Nature Watch: Snow Moon (Feb. 2025)

March 1, 2025
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January sightings 17: Three male WHITE-TAILED DEER in Spring Hill Conservation Area stand off and stare each other down, eventually tangling racks until one of them wins grazing rights. [Click blue hyperlinks to see Rebecca Harvey’s stunning trail camera videos.] 26: A RACCOON stands on hind legs to…
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Stop and Shop’s Roving Robot

February 21, 2025
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Acton’s newest grocery store has a new employee. Meet Marty, the unassuming, rather shy robot who has free reign over the entire store. He (I am referring to Marty as “he” but the gender of the robot is not apparent) is dark gray, over six feet tall, rather…
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Growing McDonald’s the Wright way

February 21, 2025
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February is Black History month and a local Black businesswoman, Paula Wright, is celebrating 40 years as a McDonald’s restaurant owner. She owns, with her son Donny, sixteen McDonald’s franchisees, including the one in East Acton, not far from the Concord line. Their other restaurants are in eastern…
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Knowing our community Chinese school

February 21, 2025
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On the cool evening of May 29, 2024, a full house gathered at the Silver Unicorn bookstore for a book signing event. The author’s name was Wendy Chen and her debut book, “Their Divine Fires”, tells the story of three generations of Chinese women from her family across…
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