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NBA legend Robert Parish tells his story at West Acton’s Silver Unicorn Bookstore

March 21, 2026
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There is a number every Celtics fan in Acton already knows: 00. It is the jersey number that Robert Parish, known throughout New England simply as “The Chief”, wore during his 14 seasons with the Boston Celtics. That number now hangs in the rafters of TD Garden. And on Tuesday night, Parish himself walked through the door of The Silver Unicorn Bookstore at 12 Spruce Street in West Acton Village to a standing room only crowd. The occasion was the launch of his new memoir, “The Chief” (Triumph Books), written with Seattle-based journalist Jake Uitti. For fans of Celtics basketball,…
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Luna Restaurant opens in Nagog Park

March 15, 2025
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Brothers Julian and Adan Bracamontes opened their Mexican restaurant with an in-house ribbon cutting on Thursday, March 7th. As mentioned in a Business Brief last fall, the restaurant has been under construction since late 2024 and the insides of the building have been completely remodeled. All the furniture…
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Town and Economic Development Committee seek your input

March 8, 2025
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Here’s your opportunity to help define what Acton will look like in the coming decades. At their final Public Workshop at the Acton Memorial Library and online on February 26, RKG Associates, working for the Town of Acton Economic Development Department and Planning Department, alongside the Economic Development…
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People playing pickleball under a very large bubble.

Marcus Lewis Tennis Center announces move

March 1, 2025
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Marcus Lewis recently announced that he will build a new tennis and pickleball facility at 45 Nagog Park Road, on land behind the River of Life Church. His tennis center has been leasing property off Granite Road in North Acton since 2014. Rather than negotiate a new lease,…
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Stop and Shop’s Roving Robot

February 21, 2025
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Acton’s newest grocery store has a new employee. Meet Marty, the unassuming, rather shy robot who has free reign over the entire store. He (I am referring to Marty as “he” but the gender of the robot is not apparent) is dark gray, over six feet tall, rather…
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Growing McDonald’s the Wright way

February 21, 2025
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February is Black History month and a local Black businesswoman, Paula Wright, is celebrating 40 years as a McDonald’s restaurant owner. She owns, with her son Donny, sixteen McDonald’s franchisees, including the one in East Acton, not far from the Concord line. Their other restaurants are in eastern…
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Powder Mill housing development in progress

February 15, 2025
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The Dolben Company, Inc. is pleased to announce the initiation of its latest project, The Apartments at Powder Mill (working name), a 230-unit luxury residential apartment community situated on a 10.5-acre site along the picturesque Assabet River in South Acton, adjacent to Concord and Maynard. Construction commenced in…
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Acton apartments sold for $13M to Needham firm

January 25, 2025
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RCMA Properties, a property management firm owned by a Needham family, has recently acquired six apartment buildings located in Acton, in a $13 million transaction. The acquisitions include the Assabet Garden Apartments and the Nagog Gardens Apartments. The Assabet Garden Apartments, a 30-unit complex situated on 3.9 acres,…
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Stop & Shop grand opening

December 21, 2024
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After over two years of planning, the new Stop & Shop opened on Friday, December 13, at 252 Main St. at the former location of K-Mart. A ribbon cutting ceremony in the produce section capped off the morning’s activities, which included several speeches by Stop & Shop personnel,…
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Feast & Fettle acquires WECO

December 13, 2024
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Feast & Fettle has acquired WECO, the food preparation and delivery service that began in 2020 at the start of the Covid epidemic. For a time, WECO was headquartered on Arlington Street in West Acton, before moving to Salem, New Hampshire earlier this year. The building they used…
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Erikson’s Grain Mill expands

December 7, 2024
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One of the oldest continually-operating businesses in Acton, Erikson’s Grain Mill, has doubled its retail space. The grand opening, held November first, showcased the larger area with a full selection of bagged dog food and horse feed, and bigger items such as dog crates that were previously difficult…
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Silver Girl restaurant announces opening

December 7, 2024
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Two-fifty-one Arlington Street in West Acton is about to be born again. The restaurant Silver Girl opens December 20 after months of preparation by the owners Dawn Aguiar and Tamara Deluzio, who also own Eve and Murray’s at the other end of West Acton center, right below True…
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News Brief: Stop And Shop Opening Nears

November 27, 2024
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The new Stop and Shop store at 252 Main Street, Kelly’s Corner, former home of KMart, is tentatively set to open on December 13. Shelves are filling up with non-perishables while workers continue with the final details. The sign on the façade was installed this week. The parking…
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Exchange Hall sold to Belmont Church

September 21, 2024
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Historic Exchange Hall at 2 School St., South Acton was sold on August 6 to the Anointed Worship Center, a Christian church currently located on Trapelo Road in Belmont. The sale price was $1,070,000. Glenn Berger, former owner of the building and owner of Acton Woodworks, a remodeling…
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Business Briefs, September 13, 2024

September 14, 2024
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Acton Convenience changed hands. Ricardo Trindade sold his business on 465 Great Road in July to a company that operates out of Lowell. He still owns a store at 75 Great Road and he has named that location Great Road Convenience and a storefront sign is on order.…
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At the Heart of Haartz

September 7, 2024
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Eric Haartz was starting graduate school in 1977 when his father John C. Haartz Jr., president of the Haartz Corporation, died unexpectedly. At a family meeting following the funeral, young Eric was asked if he would be interested in taking over the business. He said he was but…
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