2023 Earnings from Town of Acton Employees
The earnings/salaries for all employees of the Town of Acton are now available. Four employees earned over $200,000 of taxpayer dollars last year. For the […]
The earnings/salaries for all employees of the Town of Acton are now available. Four employees earned over $200,000 of taxpayer dollars last year. For the […]
By Scott Smyers Twenty-eight percent was the total Town Meeting members voted against Article 7 indicating their awareness of the non-transparent, incompetent and deceptive School […]
By Scott Smyers In the spring of 2023, a public school teacher in Leominster was fired for refusing to lie to a students’ parents about […]
Submitted by an Anonymous, but confirmed voter The Town is proposing SIGNIFICANT rezoning proposals May 7th (Articles 11, 12 & 13). The town has refused […]
By Corinne Hogseth Many folks have asked me for a summary of what happened over the last couple months, which resulted in the passage of […]
By Corinne Hogseth The pro-override contingent keeps insisting an override is necessary because municipal and school expenses cannot possibly grow at only 2.5% annually over […]
By Bob Hertz You are asked to vote on April 30 for an override of $6.6M, most of which supports Acton Leadership Groups (ALG) Fiscal […]
By Tom Beals Introduction An override vote is pending at the upcoming April 30, 2024 town election. If the override is passed, the town’s maximum […]
By Bob Hertz Management (ALG) suggests fiscal 2025 budgets represent “level services”. Level compared to what benchmark? Are all services level or does the label […]
By Corinne Hogseth Keep Acton Affordable By now, you’ve probably seen the big mailer that The Other Side had sent to households throughout Acton. One […]
By Bob Hertz Acton Leadership Group (ALG) (1), our town’s power brokers or their emissaries, tell you how much money they want and how they […]
The images below are part of presentation material provided to Acton Forum by a local resident who received a printed version from an anonymous teacher […]
By Diane Baume Originally posted at Acton Exchange on March 28, 2024. New Boardwalk Campus Wins Award for Excellence in Energy Design Boston- based architecture […]
By Keep Acton Affordable At Acton’s 2016 Annual Town Meeting, there was an article to approve funding to repaint Town Hall. The Finance Committee refused […]
The public employees earnings are now available for 2023. Six staff earned over $150,000. Please follow this link to a searchable spreadsheet.
By Scott Smyers and Dave Lunger When the COVID pandemic resulted in remote learning, it made sense that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance was not […]
By Diane Baum This article was first published in Acton Exchange. After a day-long “Budget Saturday” workshop on February 10 and a subsequent budget discussion […]
By Dave Lunger The following statement was delivered to the Acton Select Board on February 26, 2024. I want to raise a matter involving Acton […]
By Dave Lunger Candidate for State Committeeman and Chair of the Acton Republican Town Committee With the Presidential part of the upcoming primary all but […]
By Corinne Hogseth The point of Part 1 of this discussion was to raise awareness of a pending override that will dwarf even the debt […]
By Marty Benson The following statement was read at the Select Board Meeting on January 8, 2024. First, there seems to be a misunderstanding amongst […]
By Diane Baum This article was originally published in the Acton Exchange (www.actonexchange.org) with the following modifications by the author: moved section on the budget […]
By Bob Hertz An average homeowner in Acton currently pays roughly 18% of their family income to real estate taxes (based on the average house […]
Introduction by Scott Smyers with Original Research by Dominic Carpio and Mario Valdes In February 2021, Acton Forum posted a summary of information from a […]
By Corinne Hogseth Acton taxpayers should be aware of ongoing discussions regarding a massive property tax override being pushed by the schools for the 2024/2025 […]
By Scott Smyers At the November 20, 2023 Select Board meeting, a citizen requested placing a Menorah somewhere on Town Property. This preliminary discussion was […]
By Scott Smyers On November 2, 2023 the Student Representative from the High School provided an update to the School Committee. She was frustrated that […]
By Marty Benson After almost three years of delay, the truth is finally being exposed. On Monday, November 6, 2023 the following statement was read […]
By Scott Smyers There was a presentation about the upcoming school budget by the School Administration to The Finance Committee on October 10, 2023. At […]
By Marty Benson The following statement was read at the School Committee meeting on May 18, 2023. This is an ongoing process exposing records of […]
The annual salaries to Acton Town Employees is now available here. Note: Click Tab at bottom for 2022 Earnings For comparison to previous years, click […]
By Scott Smyers It has been over a year since another day that will live in infamy in Acton. On July 8, 2022, Fred Smith […]
The annual salaries to Acton Boxborough School Employees is now available here. For comparison to previous years, click 2021 and 2020. To receive email notifications […]
By Marty Benson The following statement was read at the School Committee meeting on May 4, 2023. First, the behavior of the previous Chair at […]
Nestled in the heart of historic West Acton Village at 21 Windsor Avenue, Citizens’ is Acton’s first & oldest Town Library! If you love this […]
By Scott Smyers Last summer, Fred Smith was caught on video at the Acton Discovery Museum arguing with non-violent protestors. He destroyed their property and […]
By Marty Benson The statement below was read at the Acton Select Board Meeting from March 20, 2023. This past week, the Supreme Judicial Court […]
By Marty Benson The following statement is from the January 23, 2023 Select Board meeting. Tonight, I will address the Select Board’s December 19, 2023 […]
By Scott Smyers Revenge Porn is self explanatory. When two consenting adults (Persons A and B) take photos or video of themselves nude for their […]
By Allen Nitschelm Someone famous* once said, “you won’t have [me] to kick around anymore.” Yes, I will finally be leaving Acton and Massachusetts for […]
By Nijan Datar As we go about our season of good cheer, it is hard to miss everyone wishing each other a Happy Holiday. In […]
By Bob Hertz During the Acton Select Board meeting of December 5, 2022, a vote was taken to allow for reduction of citizen debate, a […]
By Corinne Hogseth At the December 1st meeting of the School Committee, members of the community spoke regarding some highly questionable materials in our junior […]
By Acton-Boxborough Regional High School National Honor Society Dear Friends & Families in the Acton and Boxborough Community, On Friday, November 11th, the National Honor […]
By Scott Smyers As reported in Acton Forum on August 15, Senator Eldridge actively interfered with citizens collecting signatures for a ballot question over the […]
By Bob Hertz I believe we got a dose of it on October 18, 2021. Fabrications, silence, and distortions by several members of the Select […]
By Dave Lunger A group of concerned citizens are collecting signatures to include an item regarding illegal immigrants and Massachusetts driver’s licenses. Governor Baker was […]
By Scott Smyers On July 8 there was a group of medical freedom protestors gathered at the Acton Discovery Museum, a local business focused on […]
Organized and Introduced by Several Anonymous Concerned Citizens In the summer of 2020, COVID-19 was in our country for about three months causing sickness and death. […]
The annual salaries to Acton Town Employees is now available here. At the 2021 Acton Town Meeting, the School Committee provided a list of cuts […]
The annual salaries to Acton Town Employees is now available here as a complete spreadsheet. Fourteen earn over $150,000. For a comparison to past years, […]
By Marty Benson Statement from the Select Board May 9, 2022 Mr. Martin your dismissive remarks toward Fred Smith’s “Nazi Contingent” Facebook comments and the […]
By Bob Hertz Getting basic answers to simple questions should not be as hard as the Select Board (SB) seems to want it to be. […]
By Corinne Hogseth An open letter to the School Committee You folks must be feeling pretty silly. You ignored district naming and technology policies, violating […]
From the latest Public Records Release: Text messages between Krishnamurthy and Cook on Oct. 15, 2020. At the top of this post, the thread starts […]
The following statement was read at the ABRSD School Committee Meeting on April 7, 2022. By Marty Benson It is now clear that the recent […]
By Christine Marlow and Christine Casebolt In the fall of 2020, when most of us were distracted learning to navigate the early weeks of the […]
By Corinne Hogseth As many are aware, a subcommittee of the School Committee has been working on renaming the AB mascot after the Colonial was […]
By Allen Nitschelm Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Lowell) is our Socialist Congresswoman, “proudly” elected to serve the citizens of Massachusetts. Democrats didn’t used to embrace Socialism, […]
By Mike Majors Mike is A 40-year resident of the Town of Acton, a member of the Finance Committee, Economic Development Committee, and the Minuteman […]
By Marty Benson The following statement was read at the March 3, 2022 AB School Committee meeting. Tonight, I request the committee to pause the […]
By Allen Nitschelm President Biden stole the 2020 election, thanks to Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Dorsey, and Biden’s mainstream media allies. It turns out the […]
By Bob Hertz and Charlie Kadlec Tenant claims discrimination and other issues against the Acton Housing Authority Acton residents listening to the citizens’ concerns portion […]
On Saturday March 12, 2022, a former student from ABRHS posted allegations about the Acton Police on social media. Some of these statements were removed […]
A Citizen’s Rebuttal to Comments at Previous School Committee Meeting (12/2 and 12/16) The following statement was submitted by the author who read this at […]
Colonial Mascot Supporters are Called White Supremacists by White Members of Our Community The following two statements were submitted and read aloud at the AB […]
By Dan Malloy This document summarizes the Economic Development Committee’s (EDC) discussion and recommendation from the meeting held on 12/2/21. The Economic Development Committee is […]
By Allen Nitschelm Today’s Democrats argue for Joe Biden’s new spending bill by minimizing its cost, misrepresenting its funding, and ignoring the future added debt. […]
By Terence Lindgren Acton Forum Introduction By Charlie Kadlec This Article is a copy of a letter written to the Acton Select Board by Terry […]
Rebuttal to School Board’s 11/2 Statement By Christine Marlow The following statement was read at the School Committee meeting on November 18, 2021. On Nov. […]
AB Colonial Mascot Supporters Were Silenced The following two statements were submitted and read aloud at the AB School Committee meeting on November 18,2021. By […]
By Bob Hertz In a June 2021 Acton Forum article, I asked if White-Privilege checklists are a part of Acton. Unfortunately, I have my answer. Yes, […]
The AB School Committee has adopted the practice of allowing public comments, but ignoring any topics or direct questions they do not want to address. […]
The AB School Committee has adopted the practice of allowing public comments but ignoring any topics or direct questions they do not want to address. […]
The AB School Committee has adopted the practice of allowing public comments, but ignoring any topics or direct questions they do not want to address. […]
By Simon Li After leaving the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Commission (DEIC) in April, like other Asian neighbors interested in this topic, we finally found […]
By Corinne Hogseth Employee unions were originally established to allow employees to collectively bargain with their employers for better wages and safer working conditions. Oddly, […]
By Scott Smyers, Corinne Hogseth and Two Anonymous Parents The Acton-Boxborough School Committee is meeting Thursday August 19 and they will be discussing masks in […]
By Nijan Datar Now that Town Meeting has effectively given the green light to add a Diversity Officer for the Town (in addition to the […]
By Corinne Hogseth Most in Acton and Boxborough are by now aware of the damage inflicted on the community when the Acton Boxborough Regional School […]
By Bob Hertz Rumor has it that Acton central leadership is exploring, to some degree, White-Privilege checklists, a spin-off of Critical Race Theory (CRT). These […]
By Corinne Hogseth Thank you to the members of the community who participated in the Braver Angels “debate” on Sunday, May 2 (click here to […]
Twelve make $150,000 or more, 23 earn more than $130,000. A complete spreadsheet of the payroll and salaries for all Town employees is below. Complete […]
Seven make $150,000 or more, 22 earn more than $130,000. A complete spreadsheet of the payroll and salaries for all School employees is below. Complete […]
By Corinne Hogseth Tonight (April 28, 2021) is the first of two planned workshops to be run by Visions, Inc. Visions is part of the […]
From: Simon LiSent: Friday, April 23, 2021 1:03 PMTo: David Martin; Select BoardCc: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion CommissionSubject: Resignation to DEIC and an open letter […]
By Allen Nitschelm “The pen is mightier than the sword” is a quote from Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and it is one of the tools the Left is […]
By Ken Silva This is the first in a series about wellness. Individuals can eat well, sleep and exercise but if they hold anger; it […]
By Jon Benson with Introduction and questions by Scott Smyers On behalf of Acton Forum, I contacted Jon Benson and his challenger Fran Arsenault and […]
By Allen Nitschelm Last week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made a startling announcement during her briefing: the White House was going to renege […]
By Charlie Kadlec and Scott Smyers The first “Zoom bombing” incident happened on 17 December 2020 when insulting, vulgar and racist comments were posted on […]
By Scott Smyers The struggle for fair treatment of all races, under both the law and in society at large, began in Massachusetts well before […]
By Scott Smyers When many of us learn about local history, we enjoy learning about individuals, their personalities, their participation in historical events, and even […]
By Corinne Hogseth In a recent statement, the Chair of the School Committee claimed that “a few members of the community have persisted in presenting […]
By Elliott Donald Ladies and Gentlemen, Last week I watched the Acton Boxborough Regional School District School Committee’s chair read a statement on the issue […]
Response to Hate Incident and Acton Police Investigation Shows Bias By Scott Smyers and Charlie Kadlec Immediately after the December 17, 2020 hateful, racist and […]
By Charlie Kadlec and Scott Smyers As many Acton and Boxborough residents already know, two recent ABRSD School Committee (SC) “Virtual Zoom” meetings were interrupted […]
By Corinne Hogseth Civil discourse is an essential ingredient in a functioning democracy. We should all be able to agree on that. Participants in a […]
By Bill – ABRHS 1981 Colonial Graduating from the Acton-Boxborough school systems back in the 1980s, I am proud to call myself a Colonial. As […]
See link below for detailed spreadsheet. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ETQKeJT9xaXM7Sx8-0L6imQyn2LlFy0l/view?usp=sharing
By Scott Smyers The AB School Committee last met on November 19, 2020. The Colonial was NOT on the agenda except for an issue related […]
By Dave Lunger Proponents tell us Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is simple – simply fill in ovals according to your candidate rankings; opponents tell us […]
By Elliott Donald, Captain (Retired), US Navy; Acton Boxborough Regional High School ‘89 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Acton School Committee, It has been over […]
By Scott Smyers The government mandated shutdowns of businesses and institutions have many obvious and some not-so-obvious consequences. I contacted the Acton Police Department and […]
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