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Voters at Spring Town Meeting gave approval for the transfer of $73,000 to the town’s operating budget to be added to Police Department wages for the purpose of creating an additional School Resource Officer position. This position will move forward contingent on reimbursement from the Town of...
Groton Dunstable Regional School District School Committee Chairman Marlena Gilbert advised the Board of Selectmen Monday that based on the recommendation of the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), the School Committee is removing the $750,000 Feasibility Study line item from their E...
The Board of Selectmen is tenuous in their support for a new School Resource Officer even though the Town of Dunstable reportedly agreed to contribute $15,000 for their share of the position.
The anticipated annual cost of this position with benefits is approximately $92,000 according to Town...
GD Chamber Choir Carnegie rehersal photo with Eric Whitacre. Courtesy photo.
The award-winning Groton-Dunstable Regional High School Chamber Choir returned this week from New York City, where they joined with about 200 other singers from around the world to perform the music of renowned composer Eric Whitacre, under Whitacre’s direction. The concert, held April 8 at...
In their recent meeting the Groton Dunstable School Committee heard from the district business manager Michael Knight about the status of the RFP process to outsource janitorial services for school district buildings. This move was initiated after a consulting report recommended outsourcing a...
Members of Groton-Dunstable's FIRST Robotics team, known as the Robotomies Team 1277, packing up the demo robot to bring to the Florence Roach Elementary School Science Showcase on April 7.
The team just completed their second of two competitions at Bryant University in Rhode Island (the first...
Expressing the joy of playing on a great all-season, multi-purpose sports surface.
As the green of spring slowly emerges, some town residents and GD alumni will be seeing brick red as part of GDatPlay’s Spring Brick Benefit and second annual GD Alumni and Friends Spring Mixer.
The brick benefit is a key part of the non-profit group’s final push to raise enough private funding...
DI Team at States Competition with team trophy. Pictured left to Rlright Tayja Sinclair Adams, Meredith Hill, Prachi Hemmige, Alyssa Peeters, Anna Kubick, Nithila Krishnakumar and Amelia Luening. Photo by Team Parent
For the second year in a row, Destination Imagination® (DI) teams from Groton-Dunstable have earned the chance to compete in the DI Global Finals tournament in Knoxville, TN in May.
Meet the Seven Singing Smart Sweet Silly Sassy Supergirls (aka the Seven S’s), Alyssa Peeters, Amelia Leuning, Anna...
Groton-Dunstable High School students take a break to pose with the native children they befriended in front of the house they were building in Casares, Nicaragua. From left to right, back row: Erin Scanlon, Sam Boudreau, Lexie Ferraro, Jackie Forbes, Connor Estes, Kyle Battles. Front row: Kellie Johnson, Anna Bushnell and Jackson Graham. Photo by Bill Estes
Instead of using their February Break as a time to relax and focus on themselves, a group of Groton-Dunstable High School students traveled to Nicaragua with chaperones, Bill Estes and Paul Ferraro, to build a home for an elderly woman in the small, rural town of Casares. Although the trip is not...
One of William Shakespeare’s most compelling tragedies, Julius Caesar examines deeply intense relationships as a struggle for power breaks everyone down. Under the direction of Micheal Hoffman, GD Players have chosen to set their version in the 1930s, making the war for power between mobsters...