News
by Russell Harris
As part of the site plan agreement with the Planning Board, the Music Center at Indian Hill committed to making substantial improvements to the intersection at Route 119 and Old Ayer Road to ease traffic flows, especially during evening events.
Planning Board...
Friends of Prescott requested that the Select Board extend the area covered by their lease to include the rear open space behind the school, noting that they were already paying the insurance to cover that area.
Selectman Josh Degen, along with Town Manager Mark Haddad met with the Friends...
by Connie Sartini
Groton Affordable Housing Trust asked the Select Board Monday night to reconsider their application for $150,000 from the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) to conduct a cost and feasibility study on any potential site for development. Their initial request for support...
by Connie Sartini
After investigating the potential for moving to electric golf carts this summer at the Country Club, Town Manager Mark Haddad recommended a hybrid approach in which the town purchases 21 gas-powered carts and four electric carts. “This will allow us to determine the long-...
Pepperell Police Chief and Groton resident David Scott [left] with his family is trying to balance work and home life while being treated for stage-four cancer.
Chief ’s Public Announcement Brings Attention to Health Risks Associated With Colon Cancer and to the Risks Posed to Younger People
by Robert Stewart
While a career in law enforcement can be challenging and stressful enough for any individual, that stress level can be unimaginably...
The so-called "Green Bank" Bill would require the Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (MassCEC) to conduct a study of clean energy project finance gaps, including project capital, project credit support and enhancement, project finance insurance and project pipeline development. The...
by Bob Katzen, Beacon Hill Register
With Groton State Rep Sheila Harrington voting with the unanimous majority, the Massachusetts House 160-0, approved and sent to the Senate a bill authorizing $400 million to fund the construction of a new Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. The push to construct...
State Rep. Sheila Harrington and Don Palma teamed up to make new Devens Vaccine site a reality for Groton.
by Connie Sartini
Representative Sheila Harrington (R) of Groton has received word that months of hard work and collaboration paid off. She was sent a message from Secretary Mary Lou Sudders team that the Devens Collaborative Vaccination site at Devens had been approved. Vaccinations will...
Photo submitted as evidence to Board of Health and Select Board that staff at Johnson’s family restaurant were not complying with mask protocols.
by Connie Sartini
On Saturday, April 10 at 8 p.m. the Groton Board of Health called an emergency meeting stemming from a complaint received from a Groton elected official about employees of Johnson’s Restaurant and Dairy Bar on Boston Road not wearing masks while preparing food.
The...
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 10, the Groton Police were called to Bancroft Castle on Gibbet Hill after three vehicles were reported driving up the hiking trail from Route 40 to the site. The vehicles included two SUVs and a sedan. One of the vehicles was observed unloading musical instruments...