News
After several years of apparent lack of interest, the 2014 Town Elections have quietly become the focus of strong interest in town governance. With slightly more than two weeks remaining in the nominating process, there are potential contested races for five town elective town offices including the...
Special Education [SPED] expenditures are unpredictable, a wildcard distorting the school budget, consuming about 16 percent of the School Budget, for various reasons making it difficult to predict future spending needs for the whole District - all this, according to the Independent Auditors Report...
The Division of Local Services (DLS), an arm of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, recently issued a report detailing how the town has performed since adopting the Groton Charter and made recommendations for changes to the structure of town government, changes some residents may find...
There have been a lot of reports of cuts to the schools budget - apparent cuts of $740,000. But, without context, without an informed view, these reports can appear like progress toward a solution when, in fact, there is a lot of motion, but no real movement. This news analysis is an attempt to go...
The town-owned Prescott School on Main Street will soon be vacated by its current tenant, the Groton Dunstable Regional School District, as part of recent budget reductions, depriving the town of $40,000 of rental income and leaving yet another historic building vacant. The disposition of the...
After investigating numerous options in both public and private locations, Selectman Stewart Schulman recommended to his colleagues that the Groton Pool & Golf Club become the new polling site for Precincts 2 and 3, beginning in May 2014.
The April 1 ballot voting will be held at the current...
If you think participating in Town Government is just too much trouble, too boring and too hard, just remember what has happened to the budget and how it will affect you and your family.
April 1
Ballot Vote to Exclude Fire Station Debt from Proposition 2.5, giving Schools funding.
May 20
Ballot...
Town Manager Mark Haddad warned Selectmen Monday night that the recent municipal budget reductions to meet the major $2M shortfall in the Groton Dunstable Regional School Committee budget, coupled with the unexpected $50K increase for snow and ice removal this winter brings the town "dangerously...
Town Elections this year are generating a lot of interest as a number of residents have taken out nomination papers for several town boards.
Approximately half-way through the nomination period for filing papers for elective town offices, contested races are shaping up on three different boards....
Groton voters indicated that they had very little interest in changing from an open Town Meeting form of government to a representative town meeting, according to results from input at public meetings and a questionnaire distributed and returned to the Town Meeting Study Committee.
Committee...