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Joni Parker-Roach and Barbara Scofidio, part of the team that organized Groton Winter Festival & Art Fair.
by Barbara Scofidio
Groton has two new holiday traditions this year: the first annual Groton Winter Festival & Art Fair, and Holiday Lights.
Winter Festival & Art Fair
The Winter Festival & Art Fair will be held from December 4 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Prescott Community...
by Josh Volmar
In February 1821, two centuries ago, Phyllis Walby passed away at age 79 at Groton’s Town Poor Farm, which sat at the end of Town Forest Road in West Groton. The event passed without notice; in the town vital records, the day of the month on which she died is not even...
by Bob Katzen, Beacon Hill Roll Call
Senate 38-0, approved a $3.82 billion package which spends the federal money the state received from the ARPA and the surplus left over from the state’s fiscal year 2021 budget on relief and recovery from the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past...
Photo from Mass Wildlife website shows grasslands expansion via timber harvesting at Cranes WMA.
by Robert Stewart
The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is proposing a large-scale habitat restoration project for the Squannacook River Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that includes land in Shirley, Townsend and Groton. The Habitat Restoration effort is part of Mass. Wildlife...
by Connie Sartini
Groton Fire Chief Steele McCurdy and Deputy Chief Art Cheeks presented the Fire Department Study update to the Select Board at their Monday night meeting. The Chief told the Board that the “study shows a significant shortfall in the fire prevention program and programs to...
by Connie Sartini
The Groton Interfaith Council sponsored “Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross” a film by writer, producer, director Roger Lyons. Shown at the Performing Arts Center, the film details the compelling true story of a boy who endured 10 Nazi concentration camps over five...
by Bob Katazen, BHR
Senate 38-0, approved legislation that would require EMS personnel to provide emergency treatment to a police dog and use an ambulance to transport the dog injured in the line of duty to a veterinary clinic or veterinary hospital if there are not people requiring...
Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC), the Commonwealth’s joint action agency for municipal utilities, has recently been awarded two grants by the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) program.
Grant for...