Features

Relay Brings Cancer Stories Together

by Ann Needle
The illness never looks the same from patient to patient, but hundreds of people get together every year at Nashoba Regional High School with the common goal of trying to stop it. Once again, the American Cancer Society hosted its annual Relay for Life fundraiser at NRHS on Saturday, placing a very local look on a disease that is simply everywhere.

Home Buying Competition Heats Up

By Nancy Arsenault
The spring real estate season is launching with one defining characteristic – lack of inventory. According to area realtors, buyers are anxious to locate in Stow, but lack of available homes for sale offers slim pickings and competition among buyers for the properties that really stand out.

Changing the Spotlight on RFK School

By Ann Needle
For years, the Robert F. Kennedy Lancaster School has worked with young people who have survived traumatic childhoods at home, and an average of 10 foster home placements per student. And, as more of these students are being placed in Nashoba District schools due to state funding changes, the school that has gone relatively unnoticed, finds itself in several spotlights. Two local groups are determined to bring a greater understanding and local support of the school and its students.

Get Stuffed at Michael’s

by Ann Needle

Considering my family lives in the town’s eastern-most home — Sarah Palin could see Maynard from my house—I try choosing restaurants to review that are closer to the majority of readers. This stop brought me to Michael’s Bridge Diner in Lancaster, which is closer to literally every reader than to me. Of course, that makes you closer to the Alaskan Palins, but I digress.

Seed Saving Takes Hold

By Nancy Arsenault

Have you grown the tastiest tomato, the largest sunflower or the blue ribbon pumpkin at The Bolton Fair? You may have that same green thumb luck this season, IF you are a seed saver.

Down Under Beckons Stow Student

By Ann Needle
Today’s college students are increasingly concerned with assuring their educations land them a job with a future. Often, this means concentrating on majors in technology or science. But, at her college’s request, one Stow college junior recently spent more than 3 months doing something completely different from her major in these promising fields.

Baseball Back at Work

By Craig Holt
Despite the loss of several pivotal players to graduation, Nashoba Regional’s hard-working baseball team is ready to scale the mountain once again.

April 19, 1775: What Did Stow Do?

By Ann Needle

Friday night, the Stow Historical Society attempted to answer the title question. The conclusion: Stow may never know much about how the town participated in the shot heard ’round the world—yet, anecdotes abound about the period surrounding the first Patriot’s Day.

Stow Entrepreneur Electrifies Bike World

By Nancy Arsenault

Sometimes it just takes a really great idea….and extremely good instincts, personal determination and the support of enthusiastic financial backers. Stow native and 2009 Nashoba High School graduate Jeff Stefanis has all of that and more. He and business partner Amber Wason are about to hit the market in May with America’s newest and most unique electric bicycle, or e-bike; the initial product offered by Riide, a company he and Wason founded to change the face of urban commuting in the United States.
While a student at Georgetown University, before graduating last May, Stefanis’s entrepreneurial spirit was evident, crafting his own major – Entrepreneurship in Energy Studies. It was during these years in Washington DC that he came to love city life, but not the hassles of urban traffic and commuting.

Stow Student in Braille Challenge

By Ellen Oliver
Matteo Faso of Stow participated in the 14th Annual Northeast Regional Braille Challenge reading, writing and spelling contest held Saturday, March 8 at the Carroll Center for the Blind.
Faso, 12, a 5th grade student, was one of 27 students of varying ages and levels from across the northeast who participated in the event. Faso competed in the apprentice/rookie level vying with seven other students in feats of spelling, comprehension and grammar.