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Commissioners of Trust Funds announce that they are accepting applications for the Dorothy Ganser van Hoogen and Andre B. van Hoogen Scholarship. This Scholarship is designed for persons who have left school and wish to re-enter education at a time in their lives which may be complicated by...
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At what school committee chairwoman Marlena Gilbert billed as the first summit meeting of the school committee’s budget cycle, district business manager Michael Knight shocked attendees with a projection indicating a significant jump in the school assessments for both Dunstable and Groton next...
[Ed. Note: The following letter, sent to the newspaper Wednesday morning, will be read into the record at the beginning of Wednesday night’s School Committee meeting. Marlena Gilbert requested that we publish it in our pages.]
Letter To Mark [Haddad], Groton BoS, and Groton FinCom Members:
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Groton Dunstable Regional Schools Superintendent Laura Chesson announced that Twitter would be the preferred channel of communication in the district. She will announce breaking news, such as school closings, first on her personal twitter account @LSChesson and following-up with...
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Join Groton music faculty Mary Ann Lanier (voice), Robert Baughman (piano), Kenji Kikuchi (saxophone), and Greg Passler (bass) for an evening of fun and jazz on October 12, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. at the school.
In a move that appeared to surprise her fellow committee members, Groton Dunstable School Committee Chairman Marlena Gilbert asked her colleagues to vote to endorse the Groton senior center warrant article that is scheduled for vote at the upcoming Groton fall town meeting. During the update...
Superintendent Laura Chesson updated the school committee on the latest enrollment and class size numbers. The intention is to report the status of enrollment and class size at each meeting until they settle down.
Elementary numbers are up significantly while the middle school and high school...
New superintendent Laura Chesson announced at the last school committee that Twitter will be the preferred channel of communication in the district. She will be announcing breaking news, such as school closings, first on her personal Twitter account @LSChesson following-up with messages through...
During the most recent regular School Committee meeting, the administration reported that the early school enrollment numbers were in and that there appeared to be an enrollment spike this year in the middle of a predicted long-term decline.
Superintendent Laura Chesson said, “Enrollments in the...
The School Committee continued its plan to get an early start on the capital portion of its FY19 budget by holding a meeting with Groton Selectmen similar to a previous meeting in Dunstable with their Selectmen and finance boards. A portion of the meeting was spent just getting everyone in the room...