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Selectmen stepped into the middle of the dispute between the GPAC [Great Pond Advisory Committee] and Water Commissioners, by authorizing a NOI [Notice of Intent] for a permit to apply the herbicide SONAR to Baddacook Pond, saying their purpose was to see if a compromise is possible between the...
PGA Golf Professional Shawn Campbell is the new General Manager/Head Professional at Groton Country Club following ratification of his appointment by the Board of Selectmen Monday night. Town Manager Mark Haddad told the Board that the town received more than 40 resumes for the job from all over...
Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Josh Degen has yet another responsibility added to his already full plate - that of Referee - trying to resolve the on-going bickering between the town manager and a member of the Board of Selectmen. This time the discussion is over emails sent to Selectmen - who...
The Finance Committee - the first committee to make an appointment to the seven-member Charter Review Committee - chose member Bud Robertson to be one of their two designees. Before the unanimous vote for Robertson, the committee said they want both their designees to advocate for changes to the...
Following exhaustive investigative work on the potential for an electronic voting system, member Mike Manugian advised that the Electronic Voting Committee unanimously agreed that the cost for such an effort was prohibitive and recommended that the town retain manual voting. He said that it may be...
Representatives from Hollingsworth & Vose in West Groton advised the Planning Board that they had completed their sound measurements of the company's proposed upgrade to their heat and power systems. H&V is planning to replace their power systems with a new co-generation system that will...
Feeling disparaged, frustrated and exasperated by what the teachers' union see as strategic delays in the re-negotiation of their contract, Adam Snodgrass, teacher and president of the Groton-Dunstable teacher's union, announced a 'work to rule' job action if the school committee is unable or...
Arguing that inadequate radio communications is a serious public safety concern, and pointing to the existence of certain 'dead' zones where current radio systems cannot easily penetrate - including a zone around the High School - Fire Chief Steele McCurdy told the Finance Committee that he and...
Town Clerk Mike Bouchard reports that four people have taken out nomination papers for town election to a seat on the Board of Selectmen, challenging incumbent Jack Petropoulos who is seeking a second term. In addition to Petropoulos, nomination papers have been taken out by Art Prest, George...
John R. Giger, school committee member, retired high-tech executive and army officer, member of the Planning board, a man with a careful, deliberative, common-sense style of leadership leavened with a sense of humor, a man who served on the Station Avenue Overlay District Committee, the Street...

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