Letters
GDEF would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our community for your donations this year!
The Groton Dunstable Education Foundation (GDEF) is a local, non-profit, volunteer organization that supports all five district schools with grants above and beyond the school budget, directly...
Providing an opportunity to formally celebrate and recognize Juneteenth is an important step in acknowledging the history that impacts all of us. The more we can educate ourselves about this history, listen to each other, and connect in spite of our differences, the stronger our community will...
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi
Regardless of the vote, the deeply-held beliefs, the threats, the long emails to and from local citizens, we still have to find ways to walk on the same rail trails, without anxiety that around that next quiet bend is the one who will...
Any voters interested in serving on the Electronic Voting Study Committee should email Town Moderator Jason Kauppi at moderator@grotonma.gov by May 25. The spring Town Meeting authorized the moderator to appoint four Groton voters to the committee, also to include the Town Clerk.
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I am raising money through Friends of the Tree Warden to have a tree planted in honor of Bob Johnson, who passed away in May 2020. For those of us who knew Bob, I think we can all agree, he was just a great human being and a tremendous asset to our town and surrounding community.
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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...