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Westford and Community
Westford has its own community television station, called Westford Community Access Television or Westford CAT, which broadcasts on channels 8, 9 and 10 on the Comcast cable network.
In the summer of 2005, a group of interested residents worked to create a new an independent PEG access management organization, and on July 12, 2005, Westford Community Access Television came into existence.
* Westford Community Access Television
* The Westford Web Community Web Site

Westford and .
The Northern District consists the city of Lowell and the towns of Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and Wilmington.
Lotus Software ( called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM ) is a software company with headquarters in Westford, Massachusetts.
It is bordered by Westford and Littleton to the north, Concord and Carlisle to the east, Stow and Maynard to the south, and Boxborough to the west.
It borders the towns of Concord, Acton, Westford, Chelmsford, Billerica, and Bedford.
Besides Lowell on its northeast, Chelmsford is surrounded by five towns: Tyngsborough to the north, Tewksbury to the east, Billerica to the southeast, Carlisle to the south, and Westford to the west.
The heart of the town center is Central Square-the junction of routes 4, 110, the end of 129, and Westford Street.
It formed the intersection of U. S. Route 3 ( exit 32 ), Route 4, Drum Hill Road, and Westford Road.
The Bike Path will also run through part of Westford, Massachusetts.
The ten communities designated part of the Lowell Metropolitan area by the 2000 US Census are Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Lowell, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Tyngsboro, and Westford, and Pelham, NH.
Tyngsborough is bordered by the towns of Dunstable, Groton, Westford, Chelmsford, and Dracut, by the city of Lowell, and by the New Hampshire communities of Hudson, Pelham, and Nashua.
Westford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Originally a part of neighboring Chelmsford, West Chelmsford soon grew large enough to sustain its own governance, and was officially incorporated as Westford on September 23, 1729.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Westford primarily produced granite, apples, and worsted yarn.
Citizens from Westford also had some notable involvement in the Revolutionary War.
It's been alleged that the town was along the path of Paul Revere's Ride on the eve of April 19, 1775, but Revere's path is well documented, and he did not travel to Westford.
Westford Minutemen were alerted by efforts of Samuel Prescott who alerted Acton, to the southeast towards Stow.
Paul Revere's son attended Westford Academy and a bell cast by Revere graces its lobby today .. A weather vane made by Paul Revere sits atop the Abbot Elementary school.
By the end of the American Civil War, as roads and transportation improved, Westford began to serve as a residential suburb for the factories of Lowell, becoming one of the earliest notable examples of suburban sprawl.
Throughout the 20th century ( and with the invention of the automobile ), Westford progressively grew, continuing to serve as residential housing for the industries of Lowell, and later, Boston.
By the 1970s, with the advent of the 128 Technology Belt, Westford began to act as a suburb for high-tech firms in Burlington, Woburn, and other areas, and later became a center of technology itself.
By the 1990s, Westford was home to offices for Red Hat, Samsung, Seagate, Iris Associates, Visual Solutions, and many other technology firms, most located along Massachusetts Route 110, parallel to I-495.
Although discredited by many historians and archaeologists, some townspeople continue to claim that Westford was once a stopping point for Scottish Earl Henry Sinclair's surverying expedition to Greenland, Iceland, Nova Scotia, and Massachusetts which is said to have occurred in 1398, nearly 90 full years before Columbus made his discovery of The Americas.
The primary evidence for this tale is a burial marker in the form of a sword chiseled into a granite slab near the center of town, ( known by residents and historians as the Westford Knight ), which some claim is the gravestone of Sir James Gunn of Scotland, who traveled with Sinclair.

Westford and CAT
In September 2005, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to appoint Westford CAT as the Town's public access provider.
As an independent, non-profit organization, Westford CAT has the opportunity to expand the capabilities of the PEG access programs to meet the needs of the residents of Westford.
Plans are currently being formulated to improve and expand the Westford CAT programming schedule to obtain these goals to the best of the corporation's ability.

Westford and is
Westford is the name of several places in the United States of America:
The marker is generally accepted to be the result of 19th Century residents, but continues to be an integral part of Westford folklore.
Westford is run by a board of five Selectmen who are the chief policy making officials for the Town and who are responsible for the enforcement of all town Bylaws and regulations.
Town meeting is the legislative branch of Westford ’ s government, and all registered voters may attend, speak and vote at the open town meeting.
Westford is also home to the J. V.
Westford is home to Nashoba Valley Ski Area which also features a summer day camp and a Halloween theme park known as Witch's Woods.
Westford is also home to Kimball Farm, an ice cream stand featuring miniature golf, bumper boats and other attractions.
In terms of newspapers, Westford is covered by The Westford Eagle, a weekly newspaper of the Gatehouse Media network, the Lowell Sun, a regional daily paper, and Westford Patch, a local affiliate of Patch Media.
For most media, Westford is part of the large Greater Boston market.
Westford Township is a township in Martin County, Minnesota, United States.
Westford is a town in Otsego County, New York, United States.

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