Top 5 Acton Patch Stories This Week

1). 

Acton’s unemployment rate is well below recently released national statistics that indicated poor job growth for June—good news overall, but information that’s of little comfort to local job seekers who say they haven’t been able to find work despite dogged efforts in a continued sluggish economy...read more.

2).

The foundation has been laid for the Acton 9-11 Memorial (July 11). 

3). 

Morning walkers, “locavores,” and residents of Acton and elsewhere looking for fresh produce had the opportunity to shop for that and much more at the Acton-Boxborough Farmers Market (ABFM), which opened its third season Sunday morning to nearly cloudless skies that provided an ideal backdrop to the shoppers’ experience... 

4). 

A-B rising senior guard Joe Flannery is having a successful summer on the hardwood. The 6-foot-3 guard has been playing with the New England Storm in AAU play this summer. The Storm won the 11th grade state championship earlier in the summer by defeating the Middlsex Magic. The Magic had defeated the Storm in their prior 11 meetings... 

5). 

Principal Chris Whitbeck and musicians from Acton and surrounding towns perform behind the C.T. Douglas School every Wednesday night.