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I attended the budget meeting held in Groton on Wednesday, March 6 to discuss the requested overrides needed by both Groton and Dunstable to avoid extreme budget cuts to both town and school budgets. Part of the discussion that night and every discussion on the funding of our school budget always...
Twenty years ago, we set out to find a new place to call home because the older residents in the town where we lived believed it was okay to have the old schools with asbestos, remain in subpar condition because they didn’t want their taxes to go up. We decided to find a town where the community...
As a senior citizen and educator, I know  that the most important room in my home is a Groton Dunstable classroom.  That classroom is directly related to my home’s value and the value of our whole community.    Without an override,  that classroom will be filled beyond recommended teaching levels,...
In the March 8, 2024 Groton Herald, Nancy Murphy, President of the Groton Dunstable Educators Association (GDEA) writes “the additional cost of the override is approximately $35-50 per month for an average household in each town” and the “cost of the override is about $1.50 a day. To put that in...
   Override Cost is Much Higher than Claimed” “   “Over three years, the average tax bill with an override will increase by $1,349 or an average of $449 per year.” That quote is from Town Manager Mark Haddad which totals the override’s three annual cost increases from one year to the next. $1349...
Many thanks to Groton School for the food at the February dinner, the Runaway Dogs Light for the music, and Shaw’s for the beautiful flowers on the tables.  In addition, we want to thank the servers, who were from Lawrence Academy, GDRHS, and Groton School, for all their help in setting up, serving...
The MA DOR Division of Local Services Databank Reports are a useful source for financial data for cities and towns.       The MA DOR DLS Databank Community Snapshot Report states that Groton’s FY2023 Revenues were $52 million and Groton’s FY2023 Expenditures were $42 million.  That seems like a...
My husband and I – now in our ‘70s – are voting YES in favor of the proposed FY 2025 Budget Override. Very simply, we wish to invest in a bright future for Groton.    Groton’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund has long recognized the reasons young families choose where to live.  After housing, they...
One of the questions I hear frequently is “why is Groton experiencing such financial hardship right now?”  Another point that members of the Select Board and the Finance Committee often point out is that “we cannot sustain the current growth rate with proposition 2 ½”.      One of the key elements...
Our big, furry, white, Husky-Lab Deva asked us to thank Rick Muehlke for caring so lovingly for the Groton Hunt ‘Dog Park,’ which Deva sniffled daily for a decade.  ‘Please, also, thank Marion Stoddart for cleaning the Nashua River for my delicious slish-splashs,’ Deva reminds me.  Deva sends a...

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