Editorials
Next fiscal year, Groton Finance Committee has estimated that town expenditures could exceed the so-called levy limit by $750,000, possibly requiring an override vote by secret ballot at next year’s annual election. The Groton Finance committee and others have predicted that the town MAY need a...
After having approved $4.8 million for the new Senior Center by the narrowest of margins at last spring’s ballot, it now feels a bit like voters were "playe" - whether intentionally or not – by now being asked to pony up another $5.7 million for essential capital spending on this year’s spring’s...
Groton’s DPW has a well-deserved reputation for Yankee frugality and thrift. This quality is perhaps best illustrated by a makeshift DPW structure one man calls ‘The Chicken Coop.’ The Chicken Coop is a makeshift structure built from scavenged materials used to hold salvaged equipment for extending...
This week’s front-page story on the replacement of the Senior Center roof should give every taxpayer heart. This is how good government should work: it faithfully and carefully oversees taxpayer funded projects. When things go awry, the problem is acknowledged forthrightly, without embarrassment...
As of October 26, 2018 The Groton Herald began its 40th year of publication. We don’t like to write about the newspaper much, preferring instead to put out the best newspaper we can. But with the milestone of a 40-year anniversary just passed and with dramatic changes taking place in...
By Nicole Pelletier, MS, CSCS - Professor of Contemporary Health & Natural Sciences and parent of two, young, school age children in GDRSD.
The debate about pushing school start times for high school students often neglects to include the conversation about the impact on elementary school...
Oprah in Lowell announcing her matching gift of $1.5 million in scholarshps.
In the best show-biz tradition, with the timing of a skilled impresario, Oprah Winfrey dropped the biggest news of the night at the perfect moment.
After UMASS Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney announced that the university had raised more than $1.5 million for scholarships on Thursday, Nov. 15...
The Building Commissioner is responsible for the enforcement, administration and interpretation of Groton’s Zoning bylaws. Since the town’s zoning bylaws can be confusing and contradictory, careful discernment of bylaws is an important part of the job. In a small town such as Groton, the Building...
Last week the Groton Herald published a story titled ‘Flo Ro & Swallow Union Schools Ace MCAS.’ The story, based on a letter released by Superintendent Chesson, extols Groton-Dunstable’s elementary schools’ achievement of being recognized statewide for high MCAS test scores.
In addition to...
Two weeks ago the Groton Herald published a front-page story about the predicament of John Reilly and Heather Rhodes, two Lost Lake residents caught in a hall-of-mirrors enforcement of our bylaws, zoning bylaws that don’t pass the basic test of commonsense or civic decency. The Herald story...