Author: Lisa Flayhan

After a mild winter we are inundated with ticks this year. There have already been a couple of cases of Lyme disease locally. Always check yourself and your children for the nasty critters. Dogs and cats will easily bring them Read More

A reminder to all motorized boat operators! You must have your boat registered and our new local Game Warden is aware that there were 22 unregistered boats on Wilson Lake last year. New registrations may be obtained at Acton Town Read More

The Boards will be replaced gradually beginning in April, 2012. This has been a very early Ice Out! Caution should be exercised to prevent hypothermia from overexposure to the cold water. Use your PFDs out there! Road Commissioner Winchell said Read More

Many states now require that operators of any motorized vessel complete a boating safety class and carry their certification with them when on the water. Maine does not yet have this mandate. Nevertheless, a wise boat operator will take advantage Read More

While the lakes are chilling under a blanket of ice, the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance (AWWA) is eagerly preparing for another year of “Clean Lakes” projects and looking forward to working with the members of the Wilson Lake Association.   Read More

FEEDING THE DUCKS: Many of us have warm memories of times spent feeding ducks and feeling that we were doing a good deed. We thought feeding them would make them healthy and happy, but it doesn’t. We would never have Read More

  It is the law on all Maine lakes that any motorized vessel including jet skis, maintain headway speed only, within 200 feet of shore. Headway speed means “no wake.” This is to protect swimmers and to protect the shoreline Read More

On September 29, 2011 the Shoreland Zoning Revisions were approved by town voters. Town of Acton Website

The next will be held March 24, 2012, 9:00 am, 94 Peacock Road.