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At 10:44 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20 Groton Fire Department was dispatched to 25 School St. for a gas main break. On arrival firefighters found a two-inch street line had been severed by utility work being done in the area. The gas leak shot dust vapors high into the air but, fortunately, no...
Principals from the Groton Inn property, John Amaral of Omni Properties and Peter Twachtman, COO of the MIGIS Group met with the Board of Selectmen Monday night to express their complete surprise that there was an article on the Fall Town Meeting warrant that would introduce a six percent room...
Groton Senior Center will ask voters at Fall Town Meeting for approval of $300,000 to design a building that will replace the existing Center on the same site. At their joint Public Hearing with the Finance Committee, Town Manager Mark Haddad told Selectmen that he would appropriate these funds...
Selectman approved the first phase of a $2.5 million sidewalk construction project proposed and funded in its entirety by the Groton School. The first phase of the plan specifies construction of 2,200 feet of sidewalk running along Farmers Row opposite the school’s main campus and continuing down...
With the recognition that the town’s operational budget cannot continue its current growth path where costs are outstripping the town’s revenue, the Board of Selectmen at its Tuesday night session approved an RFP (Request for Proposal) to conduct an audit of town operations.
The primary intent and...
Should Groton tax room occupancy rates for hotels and Bed and Breakfast businesses? Town Manager Mark Haddad raised this to the Board of Selectmen noting that under MGL Chapter 64G, the town has the ability to tax room occupancy to a six percent maximum.
Selectman Josh Degen responded that while it...
Having closed out the fiscal year, Town Manager Haddad reviewed fourth quarter financial statements dated June 30 at Selectmen’s August 29 meeting. He said the town had exceeded estimated revenue thanks to unexpected increases in motor vehicle excise tax receipts as well as increased revenue from...
On September 24th, visit the Groton History Center at our booth at Grotonfest. We will be unveiling the recently refurbished British cannon captured by Groton’s own Captain Asa Lawerence and his men at the Battle of Chelsea Creek in 1775.
The British gunboat Diana was sent to Chelsea Creek to fire...
The owners of the old Groton Center Fire Station building on Station Avenue have requested Planning Board approval for a modification to their Site Plan permit in order to construct an addition onto the back of the building to house bathrooms and a kitchen. The Board continued the Public Hearing...
After Lawrence Academy asked the town to discontinue Powder House Road as a public way, later research by Lawrence’s Attorney Robert Collins shows that ownership of the roadway is unclear, a complex legal question dealing with a Land Court decision reaching back to at least 1848, among several...