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Voters heading to Town Meeting this Saturday will see a lower price tag—and a clearer legal path—for the West Groton Dam repair project.
The Canner family has donated $30,000 to help offset costs, Town Manager Mark Haddad announced at the April 27 Select Board meeting. The gift reduces the dam...
Voters coming to Town Meeting this Saturday expecting to approve a $4.2 million project to rebuild the Cow Pond Brook playing fields are going to find a different number on the warrant — and a harder choice than anyone anticipated.
For months, residents have been told the plan: $4.284 million to...
by Connie Sartini
On April 14, a seasonal cabin off Lowell Road burned to the ground. On April 19, a barn-style home on Martin’s Pond Road did the same. In both cases, Groton firefighters responded as fast as they could. In both cases, the outcome was shaped less by what they did than by how many...
A towering column of flames rises high above the treetops over Baddacook Pond as a lakeside cabin is consumed by fire. The blaze is overwhelming as it engulfs a stand of highly combustible fir trees and dominates the view from across the water. [see story at right]
Already stretched by emergency medical calls, Groton firefighters were tested further last week when two separate two-alarm fires—one destroying a cabin and another heavily damaging a home—required extended responses and mutual aid from across the region.
The first incident occurred Tuesday,...
Shorty says: So here’s the situation. One set of rules says rebuild the dam the way they did it in 1916. Another says build it the way we know how to build dams now. You see the problem. It’s like being told to fix your house using only 1916 tools—but also make sure it meets today’s building code...
School Committee Chair Lacey McCabe testifies before Joint Ways and Means Committee on Beacon Hill
Groton officials told state lawmakers last week that the town has already cut police positions, reduced Department of Public Works staffing, and scaled back public library access to fund its schools — and still falls $1.2 million short of maintaining current programs next year.
Even after those...
Shorty says: Thirty years ago, Cow Pond Brook fields handled a few hundred kids and a handful of games. Today it serves more than 1,700 athletes, with parking and access that still behave like it is 1995. On May 2, the question is not whether the fields are used. It is whether the infrastructure...
Brody Tyler couldn’t say why the rainbow trout weren’t biting at Baddacook Pond last week. The state had just stocked more than 800 fish, and the conditions seemed right. He and his fellow members of the Groton-Dunstable Fishing Club went out anyway—and came home empty-handed.
“We weren’t very...
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In March 2026, the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) awarded Groton a $250,000 Green Communities competitive grant. Andres Correa, Groton’s Energy Manager, managed the application process with the help and support from Groton-Dunstable Regional School District (GDRSD) staff, DPW staff, as...