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The Town of Lancaster
Mass is a bedroom community serving the more urban Clinton, Leominster
and Worcester. The town has little industry, but does contain some working
farms. Lancaster offers a spread of municipal services to its residents,
and the school system, which includes one elementary and one middle school,
has long held a high reputation for academic excellence, although municipal
budget cuts are causing concern among residents about the continuance of
the town's school standards.
The town's high school students attend
the Nashoba Valley Regional High School, which also has a strong academic
reputation. Lancaster is the site of a half-dozen private schools, including
South Lancaster Academy, the Dr. Franklin Perkins School, a comprehensive
service agency for children, adolescents, adults and senior citizens, and
the Atlantic Union College, a Seventh-Day Adventist school.
A significant number of town residents
are Adventists and the group hosts a gathering of their co-religionists
from around the country each summer. Lancaster has only one restaurant
and no taverns, having been a dry town since its incorporation in 1653.
Lancaster Mass is located in North
central Massachusetts, bordered by Lunenburg and Shirley on the north,
Harvard and Bolton on the east, Clinton on the south, and Sterling and
Leominster on the west. Lancaster is about 18 miles north of Worcester,
36 miles west of Boston. |