Once more, a heartbreaking loss of one so young. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time locally that a youngster with cognitive disabilities has met their demise, all by drowning. The latest tragic case unfolded in Westford on Sunday night, when Zayan Mayanja, an autistic, nonverbal 6-year-old boy, wandered off from his home, and despite the […]
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Nashoba Tech earns medals at state skills conference
WESTFORD — Six students at Nashoba Valley Technical High School qualified for the SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference by earning gold medals at the recent State Conference. The State Conference was held April 25-27 in Marlborough. The National Leadership & Skills Conference is scheduled for June 24-29 in Atlanta, Ga. Students who earned gold […]
Editorial: Towns face tough decisions in wake of override vetoes
Are we about to relive some 1980s “nostalgia” that those of a certain age would sooner forget? For municipal and school department employees, those halcyon days were anything but. Proposition 2½, which Massachusetts enacted in 1982, limits the amount of revenue a community can raise from property taxes annually to 2.5% above the previous year’s […]