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Town Manager Mark Haddad received some strong pushback from members of the Board of Selectmen and some Finance Committee members who questioned his planned list of Line Item Transfers slated for vote at Spring Town Meeting that would use up all the monies returned to the town, primarily from...
Lawrence Academy, long a major historical presence on Main Street with origins dating back to 1792, will finally have a direct entrance from Main Street to the campus rather than requiring visitors, parents and students to use Powder House Road from Main Street, and eliminating the sometime...
As a result of the issues with an omission of certain language in the Town Manager’s contract, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Monday night that all future contracts that require approval by the Board be reviewed by Town Counsel prior to final action by the Board. This action is not just...
Selectmen, on a 3 to 1 vote, approved waiving the $2,000 Building Permit fee for First Parish Church, which received approval for a Community Preservation Fund grant of over $200,000 at the April 2015 Annual Town Meeting, to make major repairs to the town's Old Meeting House which the church...
Groton Police and Fire Departments attend to spin-out accident on MIll street Monday, April 4. It started snowing at about 7:00 AM and continued throughout the day.
Snow accumulation in Groton as of 5 p.m. was about 5 inches. Accumulation at T.F. Green was 4.4 inches, breaking the previous record...
At their Monday night meeting all five Selectmen expressed general support for the need for a shared schools/municipal override totaling $1,899,746. Selectmen Cunningham, Elliot and Schulman recommended passage of the override, while Selectmen Degen and Petropoulos withheld support pending further...
Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos provided an update to the contract omission issue that was raised at Selectmen’s meeting last week by Selectman Josh Degen who, in checking over the contract just before it was slated to be signed, found the error. It caused considerable concern for two of the...
Assistant Assessor Jonathan Greeno updated Selectmen at their Monday night meeting, discussing some of the options available for tax relief for eligible Senior Citizens in Groton. This is especially timely as the town faces a ballot vote for an override to fund a major increase in the Groton-...
Selectman Josh Degen’s diligent line-by-line review of the final version of the Town Manager’s new three-year contract, slated to be signed at Monday night’s Board meeting, discovered a substantial omission that could have cost the town many thousands of dollars if it had not been caught. According...
It’s town budget season in Groton and with the arrival of the latest regional school budget assessment things are getting complicated, since there will not be enough revenue generated by the annual 2.5 percent maximum property tax increase to pay for the proposed budgets. This situation called for...