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With foundation work completed, walls are beginning to rise at the site of the new Groton Inn. Photo taken by Nancy Ohringer on April 3
This photo seems to evoke humans' eternal conundrum: Is dog man’s best friend or vise versa? This photo was discovered in a wall cavity during renovation of a Lost Lake home on Wiley Road. Newspapers and other items found in the wall date the photo to the early 1940s. If any Lost-Laker can identify...
Nashoba Valley Technical High School Carpentry Program students are building sheds at the Baseball Fields on Cow Pond Brook Road in Groton. Photo by John Ellenberger.
Nashoba Valley Technical High School Students display their ice sculpture at the Taste of Nashoba Valley held at Lawrence Academy on March 21. Photo by Connie Sartini.
[Ed, Note. Barry A. Pease, member of the Groton Board of Selectmen, prepared the following report on “An Act to Modernize Municipal and Government” aka Mass Municipal Modernization Act (MMA) and presented this to Selectmen at their Monday night meeting. Bold face has been added by the Editor]...
Local Girl Scouts teamed up with the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club to host a special event for the scouts’ World Thinking Day. Girls from the Nashaway Service Unit (Groton, Dunstable, Ayer, and Shirley) rotated through stations designed to teach them about world time, phonetics, Morse Code, and...
Nineteenth century Groton resident Dr. Norman Smith was a surgeon, farmer – a deeply spiritual and patriotic man - who lost four wives and four children by the time he was 48 years old. Dr. Smith joined the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment at the opening of the Civil War. The Sixth Massachusetts...
l-r: Seniors Ian Peterson, Zack Adams, Alex Platt, and Alyssa Towle stand behind just a small sample of what was collected during Peterson’s Eagle Project Textile Drive held behind Prescott School March 11. Photo courtesy of Nancy Ohringer.
Clothes, curtains, shoes, stuffed animals, service. Last Saturday, a small group of volunteers braved extreme cold as they worked behind Prescott School collecting textile donations dropped off by residents of the greater Groton area. Led by Ian Peterson, a senior at GDRHS who is running this drive...
Public meetings and reporting assignments occasionally produce thought-provoking reflections and comments that don’t fit neatly into a news story. ‘Reflection Connection’ is our place for publishing interesting observations, musings and bits of wisdom. Here we have excerpted some comments made by...
With the exception of mountain lions and wolves, Massachusetts forest wildlife is very similar to what the Puritans first saw 400 years ago. Black bear, moose, white-tailed deer, beaver, peregrine falcons, eagles, wood ducks, and wild turkeys, all species rare or absent 50 years ago, have recovered...