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Town Manager Mark Haddad announced that five of the town’s seven unions have reached tentative agreement with the town on their three-year contracts. They are; AFSCME, Council 93 – Town Supervisor’s Union; Groton Patrolmen’s Association; Groton Superior Officers Association, NEPBA, Local 53;...
The Massachusetts Secretary of State’s Public Records Division ordered Pepperell town clerk Jeanne Survell to provide a Pepperell resident all the records the town has in its possession regarding a controversial gravel pit reclamation proposal.
Pepperell Resident Carline Ahdab has been asking...
Groton’s State Representative Shelia Harrington was one of only nine members of the whole Massachusetts Legislature to vote against repealing archaic sex and abortion laws that banned unmarried people from accessing abortion and contraception, banned distribution of information on how to procure...
The people watch as Town Clerk MIke Bouchard swears in Michael Luth
as Groton Police Chief
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As Massachusetts steps into state-sanctioned retail sales of marijuana, the incipient ‘cannabis economy’ is morphing in unexpected ways, both here and across New England. Even before sales of retail marijuana sales start in Massachusetts, another derivative of the Cannabis plant - CBD Oil - a...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced last week that West Nile Virus was found in a mosquito in Ayer, according to the town. This year, 5,496 mosquito samples were tested for the virus; 290 came back positive. Ayer had one sample test positive this year, the town said in a...
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[Ed Note: "The Candle" is an online publication covering Pepperell; it is edited by Bruce Weatherbee, a resident of Pepperell, a former Selectman of the town and a former State Representative.]
Mass Composting Group, Inc. (MCGI) is seeking to create a massive landfill in an old gravel...
Groton Select Board interviewed three law firms that responded to their Request for Proposal (RFP) to serve as Town Counsel for Groton. The Boston firm of Brooks and DeRensis, the Newburyport firm of Mead, Talerman and Costa LLC, and KP Law, also located in Boston. The teams from the three firms...
Photo of temporary two-megawatt generator rented by GELD until the end of August to reduce summer peak power costs. Even though it cost about $20,000 to set up the electrical infrastructure for the generator, it is estimated that there will be a net savings of about $80,000 by shaving summer peak...
A Groton man died after crashing his motorcycle in Stow on July 14, according to a statement from the Middlesex Attorney’s Office.
Stow police responded to a call on Saturday around 11 p.m. regarding a single vehicle crash at the intersection of West Acton Road and South Acton Road in Stow....