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  Any voters interested in serving on the Electronic Voting Study Committee should email Town Moderator Jason Kauppi at moderator@grotonma.gov by May 25. The spring Town Meeting authorized the moderator to appoint four Groton voters to the committee, also to include the Town Clerk.     The...
Week of May 2    During the week of May 2, dispatch answered 1136 calls for service. The following is a summary of just a few of those calls.    Police officers responded to eight abandoned 9-1-1 calls; all ended up being accidental dials on cell phones. The police department investigated four...
Week of April 25    During the week of April 25, dispatch answered 1125 calls for service. The following is a summary of just a few of those calls.    Police officers responded to 11 abandoned 9-1-1 calls; all ended up being accidental dials on cell phones. The police department investigated two...
by Connie Sartini   Annual Spring 2022 Town Meeting presented the Fiscal Year 2023 Operating Budget to voters at the Performing Art Center using a Consent Agenda which provides a process to group multiple main motions into a single motion for voting. This process consolidated multiple...
Back in the Fall of 2021, the Groton Sustainability Commision added Climate Change to their purview. Since then, 5 new members have been added to the committee to help address the climate crisis issues facing us. We are working on some ideas and initiatives with the purpose of lowering Groton’s...
Week of April 18 During the week of April 18, dispatch answered 1182 calls for service. The following is a summary of just a few of those calls. Police officers responded to five abandoned 9-1-1 calls; all ended up being accidental dials on cell phones. The police department investigated four...
Town Manager Mark Haddad advised that with Town Elections coming up on May 24, 2022, he wants to remind everyone running for office that by law campaign signs cannot be placed on town or state-owned land, such as traffic islands, commons, the strip of land between the sidewalk and the street, or...
Week of April 11 During the week of April 11, dispatch answered 1176 calls for service. The following is a summary of just a few of those calls.      Police officers responded to 17 abandoned 9-1-1 calls; all ended up being accidental dials on cell phones. The police department investigated 3...

Podokesaurus holyokensis, swift-footed dinosaur of Holyoke.

The Senate approved a bill that would make Podokesaurus holyokensis the state’s official dinosaur. The House approved the bill in October and only final approval in the House and Senate are needed prior to the measure going to Gov. Charlie Baker.      Rep. Jack Lewis (D-Framingham), the House...
...#7 is again holding a Town-wide Litter Cleanup (TLC), on the 23 and 24 of April at the Prescott School. The hours will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.      A table will be at Prescott where trash bags and gloves will be given out and a map will be available...

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