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Image From hand-painted postcard of Old Groton High, also called The Butler School, which was located on the current site of Prescott School. Photo and anecdote courtesy of Earl Carter's Groton History Museum
During the ascendency of the Ku Klux Klan in Groton as in much of America in the 1920s the Klan tried to have postcards with this image of Groton High School [also known as the Butler School] to be collected and destroyed because the weathervane on the bell tower appeared to be a cross, [see arrow...
On Aug. 4 and 5, Groton’s Pia Anctil, Robert Anctil, Jacqueline Baker, Kevin Barrett, Craig Bennett, Peter Difranco, Christopher Frothingham, Douglas Furciniti, Kenneth Jeffries, Beth Lindstrom, Tim Mahan, Charles McKinney, James McLean, Raymond Murphy, Laura OConnell-Wylie, Laura Pollard, Jeff...
The Loaves & Fishes 5th Annual Golf Tournament, which took place on June 11 at Shaker Hills Country Club, was co-sponsored by Catania Oils (Ayer), Maugel Architects (Harvard) and Wilson Brothers HVAC, Inc. (Pepperell). We had a great turnout, lots of fun, and we raised more than $10,400.
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A vibrant 80-year-old Joan Reardon is founder and owner of The Natural Market, a business presence on Groton’s Main Street for 40 years, advocates for the healing power of whole foods, herbs and supplements. CBD Oil is a new and popular offering driving sales growth. Photo by Russell Harris
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Forty years ago, Joan Reardon left her career as a Registered Nurse to open The Natural Market on Groton’s Main Street. She was driven by a belief that teaching about the power of natural foods and supplements could do more to improve health than continuing to work in the traditional medical...
Maintaining historic buildings is a lot of work. Here painters scrape decades of layers off Groton's Old Meeting House in preparation for a fresh coat of paint. Photo by Steve Lieman
The Old Meeting House, facing out on Minuteman common, is the most important historic building in Groton. Although it is First Parish Church now, for more than 100 years it did double duty as both town hall and church as was customary in Colonial New England. Here, in this Meeting House, residents...
"We shall go wild with fireworks. . . And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness" - Natsuki Takaya
A crowd of more than 5,000 were entranced by Independence Day 2018 Fireworks at Lawrence Field.
-Photo by Russell Harris
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UMass Lowell’s Kelsey Mangano, a professor in the Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences and researcher in the university’s Center for Population Health, conducts research on the effects of nutrition on bones, muscles and inflammation. Her most recent project examines the role of yogurt...
(l-r) Jennifer Luth, Newly-appointed Groton Police Chief Michael Luth, their daughter MacKenzie Luth. [Not pictured: their son, Aidan Luth.] Photo by Russell Harris
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As part of the process for selecting Groton’s new Chief of Police, each of three finalists were interviewed by the Select Board in public session. Each interview lasted about 45 minutes with Select members asking a similar set of prepared questions. At the conclusion of the two-day public...
While commercial agriculture continues to be an important economic factor in Groton (See Groton Herald, April 6, 2018), backyard farming is possibly the most visible and widespread agricultural practice in town.
Backyard farming is a broad term and includes a wide array of practices related to...