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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...
Selectman Jack Petropoulos continues working to assemble the significant amount of data requested by Groton resident Peter Cunningham who issued a Public Information Request (PIR) for "any and all communication, electronic or otherwise from Jan. 1 2014 to Dec. 17, 2014 between The Groton Line...
A Townsend homeowner reported hearing someone breaking into his home very early Sunday morning. After confronting him, the intruder fled, and the homeowner called the police, also reporting that items had been taken from his home.
Townsend Police called in Groton Police Department's K-9 Unit...
Neelkanth Mishra is spiritual director of the New England Shirdi Sai Parviaar Temple, now located in Chelmsford, but soon to be relocated to their new building on the border of Groton and Littleton off Rte. 119.
Mr. Mishra spoke about his faith community's commitment to spreading the message of...
Town Manager Mark Haddad's proposed FY 2016 budget, for the second year in a row, levies the maximum tax allowable by law. Haddad fired a warning shot over the bow of taxpayers by including a five-year forecast that shows the overall budget increasing by some 20 percent by 2021 - going from $31M in...
At the opening of the January 12 Selectmen's meeting, Board Chairman Joshua Degen, offered a sober, personal, apology to the town "for his part in this situation," - the behavior and lack of cohesiveness of the Board of Selectmen over the last several months. Clearly hoping to kindle a new sense of...