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Groton Police Officer Candow escorts 22-year-old Orion Krause into Ayer District court for his arraignment on Sept. 11, 2017. Krause is charged with four counts of murder in the slayings of his mother, his grandparents and his grandparents’ caretaker. Photo by Melissa Hanson. Reprinted by permission of MassLive.
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[Groton Herald: The following story [with minor contextual edits] is reprinted by permission of Courier-Gazette, Rockland, Maine, est. 1846. Some of the material in this story was reported in major regional media, but much of it was not. The story is based on the transcript of a call made to...
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Late fall aerial view shows the new Groton Inn construction progress on Main Street in town center, along with the foundation now under way for its new restaurant. The new inn is on the site of the Old Groton Inn which burned down several years ago. The inn is next door to Boynton Meadows...
On November 22 Alan Hoch of 106 Peabody Street filed a complaint with the Groton Board of Selectmen and with the Town Clerk naming the Groton Board of Selectmen and each of its five members individually for violating the Open Meeting Law. He also filed a copy of the complaint with Groton’s Town...
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At Fall Town Meeting DPW Supervisor Tom Delaney spoke in support of a simple $100 fine to remedy a frustrating problem, a problem plaguing Groton’s DPW for many long winters. After DPW crews work all night to clean Groton streets after a snowstorm, some plowing contractors push snow “right...
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Be warned. Fall Town Meeting approved a $300 civil fine for an infraction called ‘littering,’ but, perhaps, better described as illegal trash dumping. ‘Littering’ brings to mind a cigarette butt or coffee cup thrown from a moving vehicle. This new fine will address two types of larger-scale...
Groton Senior Center Building Committee Chairman Peter Cunningham, along with member John Amaral and COA Director Kathy Shelp updated the Board of Selectmen Monday night on progress with plans for the Senior Center.
After listening to the update, Selectman Chairman Josh Degen said, “You have...
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[Ed Note: Thanks to Nancy M. Cicco of UMass Lowell, media contact, for providing this report]
NBC News and MSNBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki, Groton native and GDRHS graduate class of 1997, returned to UMass Lowell Nov. 17 to speak on “The Trump Election One Year On:...
DPW Director Tom Delaney updated the Board of Selectmen regarding recent repair work done on the foundation of the historic Williams Barn on Chicopee Row. One side of the fieldstone foundation was beginning to collapse, and the concern was that the repair, including new sills, would be done in time...
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In a major precedent-setting move for Groton, the majority of the Board of Selectmen voted to reduce the building permit fee from a potential $750,000 or more to $400,000 for construction of Indian Hill Music Center on Old Ayer Road.
Traditionally, permit fees are set at 1.2 percent of the...
Nearly six months after Groton Spring Town Meeting approved changes to the Town Charter, the final legislative approval process enacting the Charter was derailed, stopped dead it its tracks, because neither state Senator Eileen Donahue, nor Representative Shelia Harrington had received the town’s...