Education
UPDATED: School Committee votes to retain Acton Middle School’s name
Acton residents weigh in on name for new middle school
Applications open for Acton Integrated Preschool
Weigh in on naming the new middle school
Historical Commission supports demolition of Sanborn building
What do YOU want to name the new Acton Middle School?
For new Thoreau principal, connecting with students comes first
Acton Middle School is topped off; completion planned for 2025
The beam was covered in signatures — of construction workers, school officials, members of the building committee and, most importantly, the students that one day will look upon it from within their school. Their school. The future Acton Middle School. A work in progress, a skeleton that, save for that one piece, was finally complete. On December 8, that final beam was hoisted into place in the traditional “topping off” ceremony, a builders’ rite marking the completion of a building’s structure. The school district eschewed the traditional tree, but an American flag flapped in the breeze from the beam as
CCHS students audition at Senior District Music Festival
Tremont School raffle sends winner on a Grand Adventure
CCHS senior returns to childhood stage — to write the play
Forty-three elementary and middle school-aged children dressed as snowflakes, reindeer, elves and carolers took the stage at the Charlestown Working Theater last weekend to enact the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — but with a twist, courtesy of a Acton-Carlisle High School student. Senior Nadine Johnson, 18, a longtime theater lover who moved from Charlestown to Acton during the pandemic, wrote the play specifically for the Working Theater, where she’s held roles from actor to stage manager to child mentor since she was 5. “Theater is kind of my thing. I keep doing it … and the Working Theater