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With a vacancy in the Tax Collector/Treasurer's Office for a Payroll Clerk, Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos told the Board and Town Manager Mark Haddad that given the "tough decisions ahead and may require tough decision" he felt it was important to "talk about open positions before we...
The seats were lled in the High School library, but the audience actually said very little as the school administration revealed their proposed budget for the upcoming scal year at a public hearing last Wednesday. No doubt a lot of the interest in this particular FY 2017 budget was the proposed...
In a significant departure from the routine joint Finance Committee and Board of Selectmen annual review of budget requests by department heads, Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos opened the meeting by suggesting the cancellation of the all-day-Saturday meeting until the Town Manager submitted a...
Groton's Public Safety Departments, the units that are traditionally the largest budgets other than the School Department, were the first presenters to the joint meeting of Selectmen and Finance Committee, expanding on specific items in each of their respective 2017 budgets. Selectman Josh Degen...
Wrapping up the lengthy Saturday joint meeting with Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee, FinCom Chairman Gary Green said that there was one last agenda item: a list of suggestions prepared by Selectman Josh Degen for the Finance Committee and Board of Selectmen to consider regarding a...
Jocelyn Smyth is, by all accounts, an excellent math teacher at the Groton Dunstable Regional High School but like many top performers she has decided to challenge herself with a personal goal apart from her roles as a teacher and mother.   For Jocelyn the challenge is to scale all 48 of the New...
Monday night Friends of Prescott School Chairman Mary Jennings advised Selectmen that following their rejection the previous week to support a proposal from the Friends for a Community Preservation Committee (CPC) Grant for sprinklers at Prescott School the Friends are back with a revised...
The Town of Groton was named as one of the twenty safest cities in Massachusetts by Safewise, a national security systems company that conducts these assessments throughout the country. To identify the 20 safest cities in Massachusetts, Safewise reviewed the most recent FBI Crime Report statistics...
Friends of Prescott, the local non-profit organized to "Preserve Prescott for the Community" held a Saturday morning panel discussion at Prescott School gym to a standing room only crowd of more than 70 attendees. Panelists from Westford, Berlin and Lexington discussed opportunities and challenges...
Groton's loyal canine officer Lola was awarded a specialized First Aid Kit by Vest-a-Dog. Vest-a-Dog's compact K9 First Aid Kits include 40 items (400 pieces), for K-9 handlers to provide immediate attention to their police dog or K-9, whether simple minor care, or to stabilize their K-9, prior to...

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