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Groton's Board of Selectmen and the Great Ponds Advisory Committee [GPAC], have been dealt a possibly crippling blow to their plans to apply the herbicide Sonar to Baddacook Pond. The pond is 50 feet from the town's primary source of public drinking water.
The blow, delivered by Town Counsel came...
A $1.8M plus Fire Protection Plan for Lost Lake was passed by a 2/3 majority of voters at the second session of Spring Town Meeting Monday night, following lengthy discussion of its merits. The plan calls for installing: water main extensions on a number of streets, two 50,000 gallon cisterns...
Engineering and design for construction of a municipal sewer for the Four Corners Commercial District was overwhelming approved by a 2/3 vote at Spring Town Meeting, even though not one of the Groton businesses located in this district advocated for this service.
All four articles relating to the...
Just after announcing its latest grant awards to district schools totaling $40,000, the Groton Dunstable Education Foundation told the School Committee at its April 29 meeting that GDEF will suspend operations at the end of June 2016 due to a shortage of new volunteers to fill key Board of...
Groton Herald:
You are opposed to using herbicide at Baddacook Pond, could you explain your concerns?
Michelle Collette:
We are dealing with an unfortunate set of competing public interests at Baddacook Pond. The choice we have before us is the integrity of the public water supply versus...
Spring Town Meeting voters approved - without change - a municipal budget including the schools for FY 2016 totaling $34,211,191 - up 2.61 percent from last year. A number of line departments reflected increases, some of them significant.
In the area of employee benefits, costs for retirement...
Spring Town Meeting voters shot down - by a narrow margin - a vote to conduct a secret ballot on warrant Article 4 that would have given non-binding direction to Selectmen as to whether or not the electorate wants them to renew Town Manager Mark Haddad's contract for another three-year term. Vote...
Showing his willingness to buck conventional wisdom, Jack Petropoulos will deliver a minority report at Town Meeting opposing spending about $2 million on a fire protection project which includes extending water mains to Lost Lake, not because he opposes providing additional Fire Protection for...
Ed. Note: The following report is news analysis. The purpose of such reporting is to provide context to an ongoing, complex, story that is difficult to understand without some background. Such reporting involves a certain amount of interpretation and explanation.
Selectmen's decision to seek a...
The struggle to generate interest from those businesses located at the Four Corners in Groton continues as none of them has given whole-hearted endorsement to the potential for installation of municipal sewer for their properties. Cost of the effort would be close to $3M - with $285K of that for...