Acton News

Jackie Hoonjan of Fitchburg, vice president, regional manager and Chelmsford branch manager, for Workers' Credit Union, has been elected president of the Massachusetts School Bank Association.

It seems there are as many theories about what wines pair best with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner as there are recipes for cranberry sauce.

KATE TAYLOR Out of the spotlight her brothers James and Livingston more often occupy, Taylor has quietly been making heartfelt folk-rock worthy of a bigger audience.

The OpenNeighborhood Project allows Acton, Mass. residents to develop part of their town through an online video game.

Starting tomorrow, Concord will once again be vulnerable to developers looking to bypass local zoning laws for their affordable housing projects.

Trick or treating: 6-8 p.m., per Ayer Police Department. Town Halloween Celebration: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various downtown establishments.

Hollywood is more than glamour and glitz. It has its sleazy, decadent side, too.

As the leading critic of expanded gambling, Sen. Susan Tucker hopes she has a winning hand to play with the issue poised to reclaim the spotlight on Beacon Hill.

Art of Life Records is pleased to present bassist and composer Evan Marien's recording debut for Art of Life Records.

Edward A. Fish and Francis X. Messina agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle any claims arising from a multi-year, multi-agency probe into their Turtle Crossing condominium complex in Braintree, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced yesterday.

Thanks to a $500,000 grant, the town of Westford will no longer be the end of the line for the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.

All natural meets all yummy in Tribe hummus packages. You can try a new hummus flavor -- as in pizza -- and save $1 for two packages of this flavorful treat with a coupon on Sunday's paper.

The Leominster Public Library will present "Walking to Wachusett: Concord to Wachusett with Henry David Thoreau" on Tuesday, Oct.

Lauren Damiani remembers flipping through her Pomperaug High School class yearbook in the spring, when she and her sister noticed something.

Although Lou Gramm - and every other original member save Mick Jones - may no longer tour with the band, the transcontinental '70s rockers are still hard at work.

Teachers at Connecticut's Pomperaug High School probably think they need to get their eyes checked.

It's October, the leaves are turning and it's time to think about trick-or-treaters. You can save $1 when you stock up on Halloween candy for the goblins if you by any two packages of snack packs of M&Ms, Skittles, Snickers, Three Musketeers, Twix or Starburst candies.

With word that the A-Team movie has begun filming AND that they've decided to use a proper 1983 GMC in the movie, we've gone a little A-Team crazy round these parts, trawling the tubes for photos of the van's motif applied to other vehicles, just as we did with the General Lee motif - twice ! Got any A-Team knockoffs you wanna share? Let us know in ...

WHO: Globe Magazine staff member Lylah M. Alphonse, two of her kids, ages 4 and 2, and a 5-year-old friend WHAT: Learning about science and having fun WHERE: The Discovery Museums, 177 Main St.

ACTON, MA, October 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- COBOL-IT, the Enterprise Class Open Source COBOL, today announced that Syncsort has certified its high performance data transformation technologies with the COBOL-IT Enterprise Runtime.