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What started out as a usually routine approval of release of Executive Session minutes, turned into a discussion of who has responsibility for determining whether or not the minutes should be released and when there was no longer a reason to keep them private.
Selectmen can designate Town Manager...
In a confusing series of discussions, Selectmen first asked the Planning Board to sponsor an article to add Prescott School to the TCOD [Town Center Overlay District]. Then, at last week's Selectman's meeting [see front page story, Sept. 19], Selectmen seemed to reverse themselves saying they did...
The October 20 Annual Fall Town Meeting will address a number of articles involving public safety: from training in the Fire Department to the addition of a long-requested dispatcher for the Communications Center; to approval for data conversions of files in the Police Department based on 30-year-...
At last week's joint public hearing between Selectmen and Finance Committee, Town Manager Mark Haddad presented a draft of the upcoming warrant for the Oct 20 Fall Town Meeting and included his recommendations for spending additional revenues of $176,285 received by the town since spring town...
In a competitive challenge to Kinder Morgan's pipeline construction proposal, Spectra Energy [SE] and Northeast Utilities (NU) are offering a plan called Access Northeast to address the region's natural gas needs by upgrading and expanding existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure along all-...
On Thursday afternoon in West Groton, Groton police arrested an alleged drug dealer - Shane Conely - after serving a 'high risk' search warrant and on his Pepperell Road home.
After an investigation, Police determined that they had grounds to believe that Conley, 28, had firearms in his home as...
The Planning Board voted unanimously to adopt its recently amended Town Center Design Guidelines. These amended guidelines codify design options for properties included in the Town Center Overlay District in exhaustive detail.
Despite its name, the actual Town Center Overlay District currently...
How much should town officials ask voters to put into the Capital Stabilization Fund at the October 20 Fall Town Meeting? Town Manager Mark Haddad wants to put $400,000 into the fund, while only $335,000 would be required to maintain the balance in the fund to Department of Revenue recommendations...
This article was largely based on information provided to the Groton Herald in a press release by Kinder Morgan, parent company of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company [TGP].
For the past several months, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (TGP) has been planning the proposed Northeast Energy...
Selectmen want to remove Prescott School from inclusion in the expansion of the Town Center Overlay District (TCOD) that is being proposed by the Planning Board in an article on the warrant for Town Meeting to change zoning districts.
Earlier the Board had asked for the town-owned property to be...