Letters
This Tue, May 24, vote for real and valuable experience in education. Vote for a thoughtful, thorough and practiced hand at the rudder. Please vote for Yasmeen Cheema for School Committee. Yasmeen has over 20 years of experience as an educator. With a focus on fiscal responsibility supporting the...
A vote for Select Board should be about experience and accomplishments, not whether it is a new and untested voice. Josh Degen negotiated a $2 per ticket to be paid by patrons of Groton Hills Music Center. The patrons will cause traffic, they should help defray the costs. Josh worked with State...
A Lifelong Commitment To Service
My name is Rosanna Casavecchia, and I am a candidate for the Groton-Dunstable School Committee. I am originally from Providence, RI and have resided in Groton since 2003. As a young child I witnessed firsthand from my parents how rewarding a commitment to...
The letter by Paul Hathaway in last week’s Groton Herald referenced the opening paragraph to my own previous letter to the editor. I had observed that an exclusionary town seal can only ever undermine the town’s efforts to manage the impact of hate speech, citing multiple well-documented incidents...
It amazes me how far we have not come to when we take notice of the “All Are Welcome” stones at our town lines. There is such a divisiveness amongst us as a community and we are not getting any better, if anything, we are spiraling downhill. And specifically, with Facebook in the mix, it is...
Voters in Groton, please join me in voting for Rosanna Casavecchia and Yasmeen Cheema for school committee. Our school district has recently made it through a very challenging time period. One of the reasons we have persevered is that we have had a very hard working and collaborative school...
I am hoping you will publish this photo of Groton’s silent photographer. He quietly attends so many of our events around town, taking so many photos to document with photos what is happening in town. Last weekend he was at our Arbor Day Celebration. This weekend he was at Groton Garden Club...
Facts Not Fiction About the Words Holy Bible on The Town Seal
There have been a lot of claims by a few people to justify removing the words “Holy Bible” from the Town Seal. Many of those claims have no basis in fact that would justify removing the words Holy Bible. There have also been claims...
Why I Support Updating the Town Seal
• For me, the issue with the Groton Town Seal is limited to a First Amendment violation. Consider the Endorsement Test, as follows: "Courts use the endorsement test to determine whether the government impermissibly endorses or disapproves of religion in...
Thomas Jefferson, who was the primary author of both the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, advised Americans that there should be a “wall of separation” between church and state. The application of this principle may be difficult in some instances, but it...