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The potential for a Mass. Works State Grant for a 'shovel-ready' project for the Four Corners Sewer could be a game changer for that area if Spring Town Meeting voters pass the request for $285K for engineering and $2.5M for construction. According to Town Manager Mark Haddad the risk to the town...
Responding to a call reporting a potential hostage-taking situation in progress at 164 Main Street, with one person reported to have harmed another, Groton Police quickly cordoned off a short section of Main Street from Town Hall to the mouth of Route 40 shortly before 2:00 pm on Monday afternoon...
Groton Police Chief Donald Palma stressed that he did not consider the calls to Police Dispatch on Monday, regarding the potential serious injury to an individual in a barn and the planting of pipe bomb, at sites on Main Street, as a 'hoax'. "I don't take it as a hoax and I have information that...
Town Manager Mark Haddad told the Finance Committee Monday night that he is "not going to support the municipal sewer proposal for the Four Corners unless the businesses want it."
He stressed that he is working closely with commercial property owners in this area, adding that no one has opted out...
With the costs of municipal government continuing to rise, the budget that will be presented to voters at Annual Spring Town Meeting will reflect a close to seven percent increase in this area without including the town's debt service. Although Town Manager Mark Haddad is responsible by Charter to...
Hancock Board of Selectmen have retained the services of Attorney Vincent DeVito of Bowditch & Dewey of Boston to pursue legal action against Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation (BWPCC), owned by 14 towns in the eastern part of the Commonwealth and operator of the 10-wind turbine...
Town Manager Mark Haddad asked the Board of Selectmen Monday night to open the Annual Spring Town Meeting Warrant again, this time to add a fourth article to the three already being proposed for a $3M municipal sewer construction project for the commercial area at the Four Corners intersection of...
Robert Bowen, attorney for 'The Firefighter-Four', veteran members of Groton's on-call Fire Department, men who are suing the town in Federal Court for civil rights violations, denial of due process, denial of property and wrongful termination, have agreed to attempt to mediate their dispute with...
In a blow to the Selectmen-sponsored proposal to treat Baddacook Pond with the herbicide Fluridone, [trade name Sonar], the Wetlands Section of the MassDEP [Dept. of Environmental Protection] notified the board that DEP regulations do not allow the herbicide to be applied within 400 feet of a...
Acting on Chairman Degen's proposal, Selectmen discussed hiring a mediator to facilitate their work together, a mediator to show them how to work cooperatively, to teach them how to avoid interpersonal conflicts, conflicts that have riven the Board for many months, ultimately turning some board...