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What’s on your pizza? A March Madness review

March 29, 2025

March Madness is a time for basketball, statistics, and hanging out with friends and family. As for many folks around the country, it’s also a time when Acton residents make fast breaks to a dozen pizza places or order a large pizza with their favorite toppings for delivery in between the 67 men’s and 67 women’s college basketball games during the NCAA’s two tournaments. A team of intrepid Acton Exchange writers including Franny Osman, Meg Stafford, Jeff Brown, Karen “KJ” Herther, and I asked the owners or managers of 12 pizza places in Acton and two neighboring towns the following…

People in chairs and brainstorming suggestions written on large sheets of paper

Brainstorming Session about a Potential South Acton Cultural District

October 16, 2023

by Franny Osman

On Sunday night October 15, seventeen people came together in Exchange Hall in Acton to brainstorm about a potential South Acton Cultural District, a gathering hosted by the Acton Boxborough Cultural Council (ABCC). Sergiy Georgiyev, co-owner of Magenta Dance Place, offered the third floor historic dance hall for…

Pop-Up Climate Café – Local Businesses Act on Climate

August 6, 2023

Karen HertherandAvantika Nautiyal

The Town of Acton Economic Development Office and EnergizeActon.org organized a ‘Pop-Up’ Small Business Climate Café led by business advocate Karen ‘Kj’ Herther on Friday, July 28 at the ‘3 Moms & a Pop-Up’ space at 577 Mass Ave in West Acton, next to Middlesex Bank. The Summer…

Pop Up Businesses in West Acton This Summer

July 16, 2023

by Karen Herther

The Town of Acton Economic Development Office and EnergizeActon.org invite you to a Summer “Pop-Up” Small Business Climate Café on Thursday, July 27, 5pm-6pm at the ‘3 Moms & a Pop-Up’ space at 577 Mass Ave in West Acton (next to Middlesex Bank). Join us and check out…

Photograph of man standing in the open back of a truck with a large pile of contributed linens in bags at his feet.

Crown Uniform & Linen Service’s THIRD Linen Mountain Miracle

July 3, 2023

by Household Goods

For the third year in a row, Crown Uniform & Linen Service donated their services to professionally launder over half a ton of linens that Acton-based Household Goods volunteers collected during the Boston College student move out in May. According to Household Goods, the company transformed a mountain…

Sign at the entrance to the Nagog Park commercial zone

Acton Select Board – Nagog Park redevelopment hearing

June 28, 2023

by Tom Beals

At the June 26, 2023 meeting of Acton’s Select Board representatives for McGovern Auto Group, as well as their law and engineering firms, presented a substantially revised redevelopment plan for Nagog Park. The first Nagog Park redevelopment plan that was submitted to the Town in February 2023 aroused…

ALICE training for local businesses and organizations

May 8, 2023

by Alissa Nicol

Detective Luke Penney, a School Resource Officer (SRO) with the Acton Police Department of Youth and Family Services Division, is a certified ALICE instructor. ALICE is an active shooter preparedness program – the acronym stands for Alert, Lock-Down, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. Detectives with the SRO program have supported…

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