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With pro-school-spending activists lining two sides of the conference room where the Groton Dunstable School Committee was holding their hastily scheduled workshop, the committee members were under pressure to publicly support the additional spending called for in Superintendent Rodriguez's new...
After weeks of painstakingly working out a process for reviewing Charter changes, and after weeks collecting and collating a large and diverse group of suggestions, the Charter Review Committee began deliberations on five suggestions at their October 7 meeting. Instead of immediately tackling the...
Nashoba Valley Technical High School, in its goal to provide students with career pathways in the most in-demand professions, has added two vital programs for the 2015-2016 school year - Biotechnology and Veterinary Assisting. Both programs have been approved by the state Department of Elementary...
Beacon Hill Roll Call
Volume 40 - Report No. 39
September 28-October 2, 2015
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THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' and senators' votes on roll calls from the week of
September 28-October 2.
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Selectman balked at a request to add another full-time employee to the town payroll, this time for an employee for the Department of Public Works to perform janitorial services at the Country Club, provide coverage when the other two custodians are out; perform checking at the transfer station and...
Groton residents responded to the town-wide Groton Public Library Survey, in record numbers, with overwhelming praise for customer service, the facility and its cleanliness, children's programs, children's collections and ease of use
Library Director Vanessa Abraham reviewed highlights from the...
Groton Economic Development Committee gave a very brief overview of the committee's activities over the past 12 to 18 months to the Board of Selectmen, including a brief description of a work in progress, and the development of a proposal that the town hire an Economic Development Director.
The...
Two men have been charged after allegedly shooting two Trumpeter swans at the Princeton Wildlife Area in Scott County. Levi Young, 25, of Davenport, and Kyle Munson, 25, of Eldridge, allegedly shot the two swans while waterfowl hunting, killing one and injuring the other. Attempts to capture the...
The old issue of lack of trust among some members of the Board of Selectmen was evident when Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos raised the need to discuss the renewal of Town Manager Mark Haddad's employment contract. Haddad must be notified by the Board by the end of December as to whether or not...
Questioning Conservation Commission land purchase funding at last spring's Town Meeting, Selectmen Chairman Jack Petropoulos asked hypothetically, - "Is there ever enough [land]?" He later said, "There has to be a point at which we have bought enough land."
At Selectmen's September 21 meeting,...