Beacon Santa News Today

Local news and headlines for Acton and Boxborough from Wicked Locals Journal News Independent.

An audacious 25-year veteran of the entertainment scene and a Lexington native, Bremis will perform live for Laugh Boston on Jan. 9.

As the Omicron variant fuels a new COVID surge, Dr. Adam Weston, an infectious disease specialist at Lowell General Hospital, said vaccinations are key.

Thirteen-year-old Lexington twins Anya and Zubin Gupta recently organized a clothing drive for the Epilepsy Foundation of New England.

Early Monday morning, Susan Barrett, Lexington’s transportation director, got a disturbing call from M&L Transit Systems in Woburn.

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Marcella Pixley of Westford, an author and eighth grade teacher, has won an award for her young adult novel, Trowbridge Road, set in the AIDS crisis.

With a career spanning 40 years, shes been called a visionary, leader, mentor

Opening in 2005 as a furniture bank, The Wish Project in North Chelmsford helps area residents in need with basic goods from infancy to adulthood.

Beacon Santa raises money in myriad ways: individual donations; fundraisers at business; and, largest of all, the Maynard High School WAVM telethon.