History tour shows town’s railroad ties

Clinton Elementary School students in grades 1 to 4 with more than three green slips will receive detentions beginning next school year. "Some of these kids now have six, seven, eight, nine green slips,” said Clinton Elementary School Principal Geraldine Sargent to School Committee members Tuesday evening.

Forget about selling it, or building on it, or drilling under it. Clinton and Sterling like the Wekepeke reservoirs the way they are, or at least, the way they were. Town sentiment seems to have backed away from last month’s charge by selectmen to clarify water rights, zoning restrictions and a potential sale of the land.

Rifles are banned from Rauscher Farm, the 62-acre property town voters agreed to purchase last September. So are snowmobiles and motorbikes. The guidelines in a nutshell, according to Conservation Commission Chairman John Woodsmall: “If it’s passive, you can do it. If it’s not passive, you can’t do it.”

Mary Olsson currently volunteers at the Wachusett Health Education Action Team once a week to make people happy. Soon she can assist them every day of the week as executive director. Olsson will begin her tenure next week, replacing Jodi Breidel, who has run the organization since 2002.