A recent SJC ruling has put Acton at the center of a legal dispute over whether municipalities can use public funds for historic preservation or restoration to spaces owned by religious groups.

As the newly appointed senior minister at the Acton Congregational Church , Paulo Franca has been getting to know the lay of the land; visiting people, talking to the elderly and those in the ...

The congregation of Acton's Church of the Good Shepherd welcomed a new rector, the Rev. Eleanor "Ellie" Applewhite Terry, back in October. Terry, ...

The highest court in Massachusetts has issued a split decision in a case about the constitutionally of a church receiving public money ...

A group of Acton residents, represented by a national organization that advocates for the separation of church and state, had sued the town over about $100,000 in preservation grants to the Acton ...

ACTON, Mass. (AP) — A national group promoting the separation of church and state is suing a Massachusetts town for earmarking $115,000 in taxpayers' money to support a pair of local churches.

In April of last year, Acton’s Town Meeting overwhelmingly approved spending about $100,000 raised under the Community Preservation Act […] Skip to content All Sections ...

WOBURN — A Washington, D.C., group that fights for the separation of church and state has filed a lawsuit claiming the town of Acton has violated state law by allocating thousands of dollars … ...