Rob Gogan

Marking the monuments

June 14, 2025
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Acton Select Board Members Jim Snyder-Grant and Dean Charter met their counterparts from Littleton to “mark the monuments,” a centuries-old English tradition last observed there on that side of Acton in 1986. (Select Board members marked the monuments at the intersection with Stow and Boxborough in November, 2016;…
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Ten years of give-and-take at Acton Swap Shop

June 7, 2025
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The Acton Swap Shop opened for the season Thursday, May 8. Despite the rainy weather, visitors to the Acton Transfer Station dropped off and picked up hundreds of reusable items at no cost to them or the Town of Acton. This begins the tenth year of this local…
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Acton Nature Watch: Flower Moon (April 27 – May 25)

May 31, 2025
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April April 24: TROUT LILIES show their yellow face-down flowers for a few short days near Mass. Ave. in West Acton. April 26: PILEATED WOODPECKER climbs CHERRY TREE in Acton condo and casts a suspicious glance through a window at their human spectator. April 27: NORWAY MAPLE blossoms…
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Pink Moon Nature Watch (March 29 – April 26)

April 26, 2025
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March March 30: Vernal pool in Spring Hill Conservation Area hosts several animals over the course of the Pink Moon: BARRED OWL (ten times!), RACCOON, WOOD FROGS, WHITE-TAILED DEER, and more. Thanks as always to Acton’s trail cam guru Rebecca Harvey for these and all videos in this…
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Acton Nature Watch: Worm Moon 2025

April 5, 2025
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February Sightings March Sightings THANKS to this month’s Nature Watchers Ian Borgemann, John Goreham, Rebecca Harvey, Jody Harris, Alissa Nichol, Amelia Sagoff, Debra Simes, and Leah Whitehouse! What to look for in April This month (Pink Moon), watch for TREE SWALLOWS (back to Acton April 5, 2021 and…
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A nighttime picture of a bobcat. The night camera gives the cat a ghostly glow and its eyes look like little lights.

Acton Nature Watch: Snow Moon (Feb. 2025)

March 1, 2025
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January sightings 17: Three male WHITE-TAILED DEER in Spring Hill Conservation Area stand off and stare each other down, eventually tangling racks until one of them wins grazing rights. [Click blue hyperlinks to see Rebecca Harvey’s stunning trail camera videos.] 26: A RACCOON stands on hind legs to…
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January 2025 (Wolf Moon): Acton Nature Watch

February 8, 2025
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December December 15: A CRAYFISH scuttles across the gravel bottom of Nagog Brook, still free of ice cover. Kyran Vig, a student at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School who monitors stream depth weekly for the Green Acton Water Committee, noticed the crustacean next to the stream gauge. Biologists at…
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Acton Nature Watch

December 21, 2024
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The Acton Nature Watch is a compendium of sights seen by folks around town. The nature watch notes are not always complete sentences – they just give you, the reader, an idea of some of the residents in town that we only see if we stop and look.…
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How and why to recycle batteries in Acton

October 12, 2024
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Every day, we use devices powered by batteries – and these batteries contain hazardous materials. This article reviews how Acton residents can dispose of used batteries safely right here in town – and why it is important to do so. Batteries in our devices contain a variety of…
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