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Acton RTC Presents: MA AG Candidate Mike Walsh Faulkner House (circa 1700), 5 High Street Friends of Acton RTC Welcome! please RSVP to Chair or ARTC Officer acton-repubs@pm.me Meeting Agenda: 6:00 to ~9 Meet-n-greet time: 6:00-6:15 Call Meeting to Order at 6:15 PM, pledge, welcome visitors
Cathleen Summers of Generations Law Group and Heather Murphy of Keller Williams Realty are offering a seminar to help you identify potential gaps in your estate plan—and understand how to address them. Whether you are considering selling, planning to age in place, or simply want an organized plan your family can confidently implement if needed, this seminar brings together legal and real estate strategies to help you gain clarity, create options, and reduce stress for yourself and your loved ones. Open to all age 60+/free
Sign up on the program page on our website here! Join certified ADHD Coach, Lindsay Binette, Founder of The Wavy Brain, for this casual, drop-in session that will offer practical, evidence-informed strategies you can use right away—no jargon, no guilt.
In preparation for Town Meeting on May 4, there will be a public forum on Article 6 (Authorize Borrowing for Town Hall HVAC and Emergency Power Replacement Project) and Article 7 (Authorize Borrowing for Design of a New Public Works Facility at 14 Forest Road). In person at Town Hall, Room 204 or remote: From a computer, use the link to join the public meeting: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/520a2595/6TQId7lfY0eHZfCu0Dq1ag?u=https://actonma.zoom.us/s/86920329549 From a telephone, dial (646) 876-9923 and enter Webinar ID: 869-2032-9549. Telephone users may dial *9 to request to speak. Computer and app users may use the “raise hand” feature to request to speak.
Sign up here for the Zoom link! Looking for the best books with BIPOC/LGBTQ+/Neurodivergent/Disabled etc. characters or by representative authors but not sure what to read next? Join bookstagrammer, Leelynn Brady (aka @sometimesleelynnreads), quarterly for 30 minutes of pure book recommendations - any genre as well as YA and Middle Grade books, as long as they are by diverse authors or have inclusive storylines! We're sure you'll find something to like from Leelyn's many enthusiastic reviews. This program is in partnership with the Ashland Public Library.
Join the Acton 250 Committee for its Isaac Davis Brown Ale 3rd Release Party The Acton Minutemen will join us at 6 PM for a Musket Demonstration on this special occasion! Have you tried the Acton 250 Committee’s Isaac Davis Brown Ale? Join the Acton 250 Committee April 17th at Dirigible Brewing Company as we reintroduce our commemorative ale in time for the 250th celebration of American Independence. This ale is representative of one beer style available to the colonial patriots. Dirigible Brewing will have this on draft, in cans, and on cask. Food trucks will be on site.
For more information check out the program page on our website here! Hosted by Acton Garden Club Join fellow plant enthusiasts for the West Acton Citizens' Library 3rd Annual Plant Swap.
Invasive Garlic Mustard (IGM) pull at Jenks Conservation Area: register here Acton residents, businesses, town staff, and organizations work together to support a spring-time clean-up — a time for everyone to help pick up trash and recyclables in public areas around town.
On the third Saturday of every month (except June, which is 2nd Saturday), you can recycle your clean styrofoam containers. For details about the 2025 schedule, and what you can recycle, see https://actonma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/10278/Polystyrene-collection-days-and-guide-2025.
Tour the Faulkner House and enjoy living history and colonial games from 1 to 3:30. At the end of the afternoon the Acton Minutemen will gather, with musket drills followed by a re-enactment commemorating the alarm rider who brought the news of the British marching on Concord. The horse and rider will leave Concord Road (at the soccer field) at 5:00 pm, with the eventual best viewing at the Faulkner house (about 5:30 pm). Parking on nearby public lots. Presented by Iron Work Farm.
Litter pickup at Jones Field Playground: register here Acton residents, businesses, town staff, and organizations work together to support a spring-time clean-up — a time for everyone to help pick up trash and recyclables in public areas around town.
Tour the Faulkner House and enjoy living history and colonial games from 1 to 3:30. At the end of the afternoon the Acton Minutemen will gather, with musket drills followed by a re-enactment commemorating the alarm rider who brought the news of the British marching on Concord. The horse and rider will leave Concord Road (at the soccer field) at 5:00 pm, with the eventual best viewing at the Faulkner house (about 5:30 pm). Parking on nearby public lots. Presented by Iron Work Farm.