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By Staff Report It’s been a crazy – and joyous – seven weeks for the Chelmsford High baseball team. The Lions went from a 14th-seeded team which lost eight regular-season games to an unlikely Division 1 state champion. Now the Chelmsford players and coaching staff will be honored on the…

Aca-Pocalypse, a two-day event of exceptional a cappella, was hosted at Chelmsford High School‘s Carl J. Ronda Perfroming Arts Center on May 30 and 31. Presented by the Association of Chelmsford A Cappella (ACA), the event was emceed by Ball in the House, a high-energy R&B/Soul/Pop A Cappella group based…

Staff Report | Lowell Sun Chelmsford High track star Gable Gray continues to make headlines. The senior-to-be defeated some of the top athletes in the country Saturday night to capture the American JavFest, throwing the javelin 214 feet, eight inches, a personal best effort, in East Stroudsburg, Pa. Gray excelled…

By BARRY SCANLON | bscanlon@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald Chelmsford’s Lou DiStasi has been named the National High School Baseball Coaches Association’s Region 1 Coach of the Year. DiStasi received the prestigious award after leading the Lions to a memorable – and unlikely – Massachusetts Division 1 state championship last month.…

The 38th annual recipient of the John R. Carson Memorial Scholarship is Xavier May. Carson was a star distance runner at Chelmsford High School. As a sophomore, he broke the meet record at the statewide Red Auerbach Invitational in 1,000 yard and came within one second of the CHS mile…

CHELMSFORD, Massachusetts (July 7, 2025) – Recent Chelmsford High School graduate Sophia Roy took home second place honors in the Original Oratory category at the National Catholic Forensics League Grand Nationals. At the event, which was held in Chicago May 23-25, Roy competed in eight rounds of competition against other…

CHELMSFORD, Massachusetts (July 2, 2025) – On Tuesday afternoon, June 3, the newly renovated tennis courts located behind Chelmsford High School were dedicated in honor of Al Thomas. Friends and family members of Thomas, along with current and former Chelmsford Public Schools staff and faculty, gathered to celebrate the occasion,…

By JASON COOKE | Correspondent | Lowell Sun Just like it did throughout its magical run to Polar Park, the Chelmsford High baseball team found a way. The Lions delivered multiple winning recipes en route to the Division 1 state championship game on Friday. Be it a 12-run offensive explosion…

By ALEAH LANDRY | Lowell Sun As the Chelmsford High School Class of 2025 moves on to higher education, the workplace, and other post-graduation plans, one teacher is imploring them to “rely on what’s real.” At Saturday’s graduation ceremony held at the Tsongas Center, faculty speaker Michael Shea warned graduates…

By ERIK ANDERSON | Lowell Sun The 14th-seeded Chelmsford Lions continued their Cinderella run all the way to the Division I baseball state title game by upsetting the second-seeded St. John’s Shrewsbury Pioneers, 5-3, Wednesday night. They will now take on Braintree in the championship game. The first three innings…