With a group of her friends already playing basketball in the third grade they pushed Kayla Madden to give the sport a try when tryouts were posted. Madden went home and asked her father, who had played basketball in high school, to teach her the...
Ashland Middle School Cafeteria, 9 am to 1 pm
Feb 2019
On the Saturday before Valentine’s Day, February 9, the Ashland Middle School Cafeteria will be transformed into a lively marketplace where neighbors and friends can gather to shop and shmooze.
Ashland Farmers Market (AFM) plans to host 20...
Feb 2019
Governor Charlie Baker swore in Senate and House members in separate ceremonies on January 2.
Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) was elected to her first full-term as Senate president. In her remarks to the Senate, Spilka laid out an...
Feb 2019
Fundraising activities remain in full swing for 18-year-old Jake Silver, who was diagnosed in 2016 with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer.
A friend of the Silver family, Leslie Marci, has been one of the many Ashland residents...
Feb 2019
The Ashland Board of Selectmen (BOS) at its January 2 meeting approved, based on recommendation from Town Manager Michael Herbert, to authorize $112,000 from the newly formed Warren District account to hire a project manager for two years.
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Dec 2018
Adam Sachs, president of the Ashland Business Association (ABA), at the last program of the year in November reviewed the organization’s many recent accomplishments.
“Our ultimate goal is to help promote business growth in Ashland. We have...
Dec 2018
A $3 million MassWorks Infrastructure Grant was announced on Nov. 1 at the Ashland town hall in support of the Ashland Downtown Revitalization Project for Main and Front streets.
Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, Senate President Karen...
Dec 2018
Ashland’s Jess Bredin was introduced to the game of soccer in kindergarten by her father, who he himself loved playing the game. And through those early years on the field he would coach her teams. When she made the varsity team in her freshman...
Dec 2018
Colin Murphy is Ashland High’s new boys basketball coach and although he’s been Sharon’s jayvee coach for the last three years, he’s well-known to many of his prospective players because they’ve likely been one of his students or played football...
Dec 2018
The town of Ashland and Ameresco, Inc. hosted a ribbon cutting on Nov. 8 at the town’s capped landfill at 102 Howe St. to celebrate the completion of three solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities.
The town partnered with Ameresco to develop the...