Acton is recruiting volunteers this week to help paint its Sustainability Mural, one of several conservation pushes the town announced. The town also invited residents to the Red House Conservation Project's BioBlitz, a hands-on effort to catalog local wildlife on town conservation land…

Acton's DPW issued a paving notice for the week of Aug. 24 as two town boards prepare to meet. The Select Board and DPW Building Committee are both scheduled to convene Monday, Aug. 24, with the Select Board's agenda including a previously announced public hearing on a special permit fo…

Acton held a vigil Wednesday for Siddarth Aravind and his mother, victims of a double homicide, WCVB reports. The Select Board has scheduled two Aug. 24 public hearings on site plan special permits for proposed projects at 97-105 Great Road and 1012 Main Street, and the Department of Pu…

The town raised Acton's West Nile Virus risk to moderate Wednesday after a mosquito sample tested positive, urging residents to take precautions. The advisory follows an earlier post that had classified Acton's own risk as low while neighboring communities sat at moderate. Elsewhere, th…

Acton's Planning Board has scheduled a public hearing on a proposed development at 96 Pope Road for Tuesday, Aug. 18. The hearing is one of three town board meetings scheduled that evening, alongside the Commission on Disabilities and the Land Stewardship Committee. Acton Public Library…