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The mood was somber at Dunstable Town Hall as a small crowd met to review the latest budget proposal at the Dunstable advisory board’s public hearing. This year Dunstable has struggled to find the revenue to fund growth in town services budget as well as the Groton-Dunstable school district’s...
GROTON -- Fire Chief Steele McCurdy, Groton Police Chief Donald Palma, and State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey announced the most probable cause of Wednesday’s 4-alarm fire at 293 Old Dunstable Road was an outdoor fire pit. No one was home at the time of the fire and no was injured. Investigators...
Town Manager Mark Hadddad presented 5-year financial projections at last Selectmen’s meeting. For the town portion of the budget, he projected the town budget, without an override, would shrink year to year by negative .10 percent. If the override is successful, it would grow at a rate of .73...
The school committee concluded three lengthy marathon sessions by voting to submit a budget increase reduced by 43 percent for a total of $2.65M, which includes the $1.6M in carry forward costs, mainly growth in the healthcare costs and contractual salary increases for existing employees. The...
Selectmen held a special session to finalize reduced budget numbers for the school and the town slated for consideration at the June 13 town meeting session and to formulate the second Proposition 2.5 override ballot question which will be voted at the ballot on June 30, just hours before the...
Town Moderator Jason Kauppi opened the second session of 2016 Spring Town Meeting Monday night, advising voters that no action on any changes to the municipal operating budget would be addressed during this session, but would be opened up at the third session of Spring Town Meeting scheduled for...
The day after Groton town elections the regional school committee met in the first of three sessions to begin the difficult process of resolving the district’s budget after both towns turned down Proposition 2.5 override requests needed to support a budget with significant growth. Although some...
Tarbell School is now officially owned by Kevin McGonigle following the passing of papers on the historic school on Thursday May 5. The proceeds from the sale, $77,000 – are deposited in the town’s Receipts Reserved for Appropriation Account, and may only be used by a vote of Town Meeting. This...
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ and representatives’ votes on roll calls from the week of May 16-20. 4 PERCENT TAX HIKE ON MILLIONAIRES (H 3933) House and Senate held a constitutional convention and approved 135-57 (House approved 102-50, Senate approved 33-7), a proposed...
Thanks to Art Campbell, breaking news from FERC on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. From: FERC eSubscription Date: Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:30 PM Subject: Withdrawal of Application submitted in FERC CP16-21-000 by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C.,et al. On 5/23/2016, the following Filing was...

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