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Acton lifts maks mandate

Wicked Local Please support local journalism by subscribing here. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced that as part of Phase 2 people age 75+ are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning Monday, Feb. 1. People age 75+ can now find a location where the vaccine is being administered and sign up to receive the vaccine from that location on the State’s website at: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-vaccination-locations-for-individuals-in-eligible-groups-and-phases...

Wicked Local Actons Vaccine Working Group, comprised of Deputy Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director Anita Arnum, Nursing Director Heather York, Health Director Sheryl Ball, Council on Aging Director Sharon Mercurio and Town Manager John Mangiaratti, reports that the Town of Acton secured 100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccination and held a successful vaccination clinic for to eligible residents. The doses have been specifically allotted only for those 75-years-old and older who became el...

Wicked Local Acton Police Chief Richard Burrows announced that the Acton Police Department has made progress in its investigation into a pair of incidents in which Acton-Boxborough School Committee members were targeted with racial epithets during public meetings. Through its ongoing investigation, which began after the first incident on Dec. 17, Acton Police have identified a juvenile male in Arizona as a suspect. Acton Police are working with a local Arizona police department to continue th...

ACTON — People in Acton and Boxborough are saying "no" to racism following a virtual school committee meeting in which an anonymous troll posted racist and vulgar comments deeply upsetting two Black board members. About 90 minutes into a meeting of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School Committee, the anonymous poster used the Q & A function to write the ugly remarks. The comments were only visible to committee members, including its only Black members, Kyra Wilson Cook and Evelyn Abayaah, b...

Reply An Acton-Boxborough School Committee meeting was Zoom-bombed on Thursday night. (Kristin Borden/Patch) ACTON, MA — Local officials are condemning a series of racist messages posted during an Acton-Boxborough School Committee meeting held over Zoom on Thursday night. The "vulgar and hateful, racist messages" were sent to the School Committee members, according to a statement Friday from the Acton Board of Selectmen. The Selectmen were asking Acton police to investigate the incident as ...