Letters
The following account was published in The Public Spirit sometime around September 1925. It was sent to The Groton Herald by Barbara Onners of Pepperell Road with a hand-written letter in support of repairing the West Groton dam. She wrote, “My wonderful Dad (Angelo Bouchene) almost drowned in...
Dear Editor:
In the first year since Raising Groton’s founding, we have learned a lot about education funding and the crisis we are in. We’ve seen that, while the cost of providing education has gone up about $15M in the last 20 years, the funding from the state has gone up only about $530,000...
We have a new name/face running for the Select Board this year. It is refreshing to see someone with new ideas stepping up to run for office. I met Nick about a month ago and was impressed when I met him. He is younger than the folks that usually run (he is not retired as most of our Select...
On behalf of the Destination Groton Committee, I would like to invite Groton residents to participate in a Vision Process Zoom meeting on Thursday, May 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
Over the past four years, the Committee has gathered input through a series of public forums, conferences, focus groups...
Letter carriers from around the country, in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service, will be participating in the nation’s largest one-day food drive effort to “Stamp Out Hunger,” always held on the 2nd Saturday of May, will be held THIS Saturday, May 9.
On this day, letter carriers will be...
May through June, turtles will be on roadways and in yards even more, as they travel long distances to sunny nesting sites. Please be on alert for them and enjoy watching them from a distance. Nesting may take several hours, so please give shy turtles privacy and keep pets away.
Turtles live...
We need the strong, clear-thinking leadership of Becky Pine on Groton’s Select Board. That’s why my husband, Warren Mersereau, and I enthusiastically endorse her for Re-Election.
She isn’t just “present” at Select Board meetings. She comes prepared with relevant, central questions and...
The Groton Select Board and Town Manager are trying to gut Proposition 2½. Article 9 of the Town Meeting asks voters to exempt the Town’s health care expenses and pension expenses from the limits of Proposition 2½.
Instead of having BOTH a Town Meeting vote AND a ballot box vote to exceed...
For more than 25 years I have spent tens of thousands of hours paddling the Squannacook and Nashua rivers as the director of River Classroom, an on-water canoe-based educational program for children and adults. I have a unique perspective of the river ecosystems and have spent much of my time...
We write to ask all Groton citizens to re-elect Becky Pine for another term on our Select Board. We the undersigned helped start her original campaign three terms ago, and since then we have become even more enthusiastic in our support for her.
Becky has honed her leadership skills in...