Letters
The Kitchen Sink
Make a list of what you don't prefer,
The politics, traffic jams, wars, lack of affordable housing,
Past that list near the kitchen sink.
Listen to it growl at you as you load the dishwasher.
Then you can decide to fully accept the list
Remaining sleepless, agitated and despondent...
Groton Grange #7 would like to thank all who contributed to the 2025 Town-Wide Litter Clean-up. Special thanks to Moison Ace Hardware for their donation of gloves and trash bags, Groton DPW for donating, placing and removing two dumpsters, and special thanks to Prescott Community Center for their...
Emergencies come in all flavors and sizes depending on your perspective. Teenagers, for example, may have emergent feelings for situations that an adult knows will be sorted out in due time without taking extreme measures.
Recently, correlations of emergency response time and impending doom of...
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...
Here are facts to consider regarding the Fire Department's Request for Additional Staff:
There have been a lot of questions and comments regarding the need for additional emergency staff for the Town of Groton Fire Department. I have been following these issues in depth since 2018 and hope that...
We are long-time residents of Groton and former members of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee and we want to encourage Groton’s voters to approve the school override both at the Town Meeting on April 26 and at the election on May 20.
The budget problems of our town were created by...
Are you fed up with having to vote on overrides? So are we. Does putting a “No Override” sign in your yard fix the problem? Probably not. Meaningful change takes time and considerable effort. So, when we ask folks to vote yes on the school funding override question, we recognize that this is an...
I'd like to thank John Bates for his April 4 letter about “the restoration of democracy.” I often wonder how so many fellow Americans remain unconcerned by our current administration’s corrosion of democratic norms, and perspectives like John’s help clarify that divide. The US won’t overcome its...
Tom Delaney To Be Honored at Arbor Day 2025
I would like to invite the community to join the Friends of the Tree Warden in celebrating Groton’s 42nd Annual Arbor Day Celebration. The event will take place on Sunday, April 27th at 1 PM at Blossom Common, located at the intersection of Blossom Lane...
There is a long-standing tradition in West Groton Village to bet on the date that winter ice would be totally cleared out of West Groton Pond. This tradition has been going on even before we moved to West Groton 55 years ago. This year the ice out date was March 19. Last year the date was March 5,...