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With the changing landscape for schools and police departments, the need for solid building evacuation plans, emergency plans, and administrative and teacher training are becoming much more important factors to ensure safety of students and personnel.
In his 2016 budget, Police Chief Donald Palma...
At Saturday's joint meeting to review town budget requests, Water Department Superintendent Tom Orcutt and Fire Chief Steele McCurdy outlined the proposal that has been in the works for some time by the Lost Lake Fire Protection Study Committee that would provide fire protection to the Lost Lake...
The Electronic Voting Committee's joint meeting with the Board of Selectmen originally scheduled for Monday, February 9, 2015 at 7:30pm has been rescheduled to Monday, February 23, 2015 at 7:30pm, Groton Town Hall, 173 Main St., Groton, Selectmen's Meeting Room, first floor.
Chris Curtis - a member of Groton Call Fire Department and a relative of Selectman Anna Eliot - allegedly broadcast an email threatening harm to James 'Stewie' Horan, one of four firefighters suing the town in Federal court for civil rights violations, denial of due process, denial of property and...
A resident of Off Prescott Street met with the Planning Board to discuss required steps that would be necessary for them to recommend to the Board of Selectmen making Off-Prescott Street a public way. He advised that he representing five of his neighbors.
Off-Prescott Street - it literally is off...
Concerned citizens from three states and over two dozen organizations have joined forces to fight the proposed Kinder Morgan Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Energy Direct (NED) project. The group's current members hail from New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire and call themselves The StopNED...
At the height of the blizzard of '15, in white-out conditions, on Tuesday January 26 at 4:52 p.m., the Groton 911 dispatch center received a call for a garage fire at 278 Nashua Rd.
Firefighters arrived to find fire coming from the garage of a two story split level residence. Fortunately at the...
Usually, School and municipal spending are presented together in a single unified budget, but it is worthwhile to compare the municipal budget against the school spending in the FY '16 budget because the percentage increase diverges significantly, with the municipal budget increasing by 5.3% while...
The Blizzard of '15: "So all night long the storm roared on; The morning broke without a sun . . . No cloud above, no earth below, - A universe of sky and snow." - Whittier.
Only hours after the blizzard of '15 dropped its last snowflake, Groton's stellar Highway Department had mostly cleared the...
Land Use Director Michelle Collette advised the Planning Board that the Zoning Board of Appeals continued a meeting on an application submitted by John Croteau for a special permit for 69 to 71 Champney Street for some changes to the multiunit structure. His request is for a change in condominium...