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Air Force Sergeant Frank Scimemi at Ceremony honoring veterans at the GDRHS. Frank served from 1942-45 in China, Burma and India as a mechanic on airplanes. He is 96 years old and is accompanied here by his wife Louise.
This year marks one of the best Veterans Day ceremonies at Groton-...
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In October, Pack 12 Cub Scouts gathered ‘round, Cutler Field campfire, roasting marshmallows, staring into the fire. Photo courtesy of Geoff Kromer.
Painting titled ‘Vermont Barn’ by Harding Mudge Bush. It can be seen at the Harding Bush gallery at Lee Muir-Haman’s studio at 30 Main Street in Ayer.
The ‘torch’ of the Harding Mudge Bush art studio & gallery at 30 Main Street in Ayer has passed into the capable hands of Lee Muir-Haman, a woman whose love of watercolor painting was ignited in 2008 when she took an intensive 2-week course with watercolorist Harding Mudge Bush.
The studio...
“If you could have one of these outfits in a size to fit you, which one would you choose?” Sandra Hersh [second from left] and some of her after-school sewing class students model their picks. Photo by Russell Harris
The lost art of hand sewing is alive and well at Florence Roche Elementary School where Groton seamstress Sandra Nazarian Hersh instructs six young ladies in the tradition of hand sewing.
This six-week class, run as an after-school program, is held twice a year, and is aimed at students in...
Aren Truex (of Groton) as Simba in Peacock Players’ Disney’s Lion King Jr.
Peacock Players, New Hampshire’s premiere award-winning youth theatre, will proudly present the new Broadway musical adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King Jr. for two weekends in November at the Janice B. Streeter Theater, located at 14 Court Street in Nashua, NH.
Disney’s The Lion King Jr....
After a long morning of PSAT testing last Wednesday, October 25th, the Groton-Dunstable Regional High School ended their school day with a performance by an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Wrabel. The school’s Music Honors Society chose to host the artist — who has gained millions of online fans...
Groton’s Platt Builders added to their many accolades this month when they were named the Gold Winner for Best Residential Master Bedroom Suite at the annual Prism Awards hosted by the Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston (BRAGB). The Prism Award follows closely on the heels of the...
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Construction of the new Shirdi Sai Temple on the Groton-Littleton town-line is nearly complete. A representative from the temple spoke at the beginning of Monday’s Town Meeting session to let Groton residents know that there will be an open house in November for the public to visit the temple...
Movie Crew prepares for shoot at Fitch’s Barn on Longley Road. Crew was also seen shooting at Kevin Lindemer’s barn on Boston Road and at the billiard hall in Ayer. Photo by John Ellenberger
Astute observers may have noticed what appears to be a movie crew setting up at various locations around Groton. This is indeed a movie crew out of Devens’ New England Studios filming a feature preliminarily titled, “Ghost Light” in Groton, Ayer and Concord. Ghost Light was written and is being...
Girl Scouts learn to bake cornbread at the Camp Skills Extravaganza
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Seventy Girl Scouts from Groton and surrounding communities attended a Girl Scout Camp Skills Extravaganza on September 16 at the Dunstable Rural Land Trust.
The scouts moved through a series of stations set up by camp organizers to learn wood skills and lashing, first aid, how to fish,...