Five Things You Can't Do In Westford

Patch is always up on the latest trends, so when we saw yesterday that #5ThingsYouCantDo was trending nationally on Twitter, local Patches everywhere started finding out what things local residents couldn’t do in their towns and here’s what we found you couldn’t do here in Westford

#1. You Can’t Get a Big Mac Without Leaving Your Car: Or a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, or any other fast food for that matter. Local ordinances forbid drive-thru windows.

#2. You Can’t Open A Walmart: While Westford isn’t the only town to turn down a Walmart, or even the only place in the Merrimack Valley to do so, it turned out over 5,000 residents against zoning changes that would have allowed a store sized as large as an average Walmart to come into town in 1994.

#3. You Can’t Go to Westford High School: Westford has two high schools, but unlike most towns, neither is named Westford High School. The first is , which was opened in 1794 when local farmers banded together to provide a place to educate their children. It became the town’s public high school early in the 20^th century.

The other is , a regional high school geared towards enrollment from various nearby towns as well as Westford.

#4. You Can’t Be Stopped From Selling Alcohol on Sundays Just Because It’s Sunday: This one isn’t just Westford, but it’s uncommon in Massachusetts. In most of the Commonwealth, liquor can’t be sold on Sundays, but since 1990, towns 10 miles from the New Hampshire border such as Westford have been exempt from that law.

#5. You Can’t Agree on a Fifth Thing You Can’t Do: There were a ton of answers for the fifth thing on this list during our search around town ranging from to to answers such as “not being able to pick as many apples as you once could when there were more orchards”, “not being able discharge firearms on other people’s property without their permission” or “putting up sandwich boards on lawns except in certain circumstances”

So, we wanted to find out from you want the fifth forbidden thing in Westford should be!

Here’s a list of other Patches in Massachusetts that shared the five (or more) forbidden things in their towns.

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