Letters
Reading recent Groton Herald articles describing the upcoming school budget shortfall that might require an override, feels like being in the movie Groundhog Day.
It was just last April that the voters rejected an override proposal loudly and soundly. Their message was “No Override”.
Large or...
An update: there are three overrides now! One override for the Schools and two override options for the Fire Department. All should be defeated. Please come to the April 26th Town Meeting and vote against the overrides.
The budgets are being prepared, and we’ll soon see exactly how much the...
The school’s requested override should be defeated at the April Town Meeting.
Last year the school district agreed to perform a top to bottom efficiency analysis, but it is barely started. Yet the schools want the taxpayers to support an override without that outside consultant’s efficiency...
The Commissioners of Trust Funds would like to thank all the people who supported the Community Children’s Fund this past holiday season. Whether you provided gifts for a specific family, donated clothing, toys or made a financial contribution, it all went toward helping more than 75 children have...
I would like to thank the Groton Dunstable School community for hosting such an excellent and welcoming open house program at the new Florence Roche School this past Saturday. (Did you know the school was completed under budget and opened on time this year?)
Fourth grade students greeted us...
I want to thank all the people in Groton who helped make the book launch on Sunday, February 2 for my biography of George Boutwell - Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy - such a success. This was truly a town-wide effort, involving everyone at the Groton Historical Society,...
For too long, admissions policies at Massachusetts’ vocational schools disproportionately shut out kids growing up in poverty. As a result, less vocational school graduates entered our workforce than ever in the building trades while more graduates than ever went on to attend four-year colleges....
The February 14 article on the uncertainty the Conservation Commission faces because of the difference between Community Preservation Committee funding requests ($1.8 million) vs expected funding available ($1.2 million) left me thinking that the Conservation Commission should not receive CPC...
It is with great sadness that I have decided to retire and close my orthopedic practice here in Ayer after more than 33 years. It has been an extraordinary privilege to serve the people here in the Nashoba Community. The catastrophic closure of the Nashoba Valley Medical Center has left me without...
Recently our Co-chair May Brackett left our committee. The committee would like to publicly thank her for the work she did for us, and the town.
After more than seven years as an active member of the Williams Barn Committee May (Lori) Brackett has decided to leave the committee to focus on her...