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Paul Henderson of Groton has been named to Western New England University’s President’s List for the spring 2025 semester. Students are named to the President’s List for achieving a semester grade point average of 3.80 or higher.
Paul Henderson of Groton has been named to Western New England...
Christian Montalvo, a Viking Mentor from Ayer, guides a group of ninth-graders on a tour of Nashoba Tech during Freshman Orientation. Photo courtesy Nashoba Tech
Nashoba Valley Technical High School’s Viking Mentors assisted incoming freshmen at orientation on August 26 to welcome the 2025-2026 school year.
Viking Mentors are upperclassmen who have been recommended by staff for demonstrating outstanding leadership and commitment during their first two years...
Groton Fire Department recently welcomed Deputy Chief Terence Gardner. Deputy Chief Gardner has spent the last 18 years with the Littleton Fire Department and is ready to get to work with GFD.
Deputy Chief Gardner began his career as an on-call firefighter in 2007. He quickly signed on as a full-...
Groton Lakes Association Poker Run took place on Saturday August 23. There were 45 players in multiple boats. Seven Dealer Docks (7-card stud Poker) ranged from Sargisson Beach at one end of Knops Pond to Baby Beach at the far end of Lost Lake. Steve Lane was voted best Dealer Dock by the players based on the best handouts and servings. Jeff Gordon of Exit Realty spo nsored the event.
In the picture left to right are Steve Beard, Carol O’Connell, Heather Rhodes, John Reilly, and Kelli Steer. Courtesy photo
Lawrence Academy’s current construction project is underway. The 30+ year-old dining hall is being taken down, making way for a new building that will integrate both a new dining hall and student center to be named Community Commons, The $2.5m project will take up to a year and a half to complete. This new addition will provide a unified, common space for faculty and students, create a central social space morning through night, seven days a week for boarding and day students, meeting rooms for clubs and student government, as well as space for a multipurpose media room. Photo courtesy of Nancy Ohringer.
Pyper Woytaszek of Dunstable has been named to the 2025 spring semester dean’s list at Simmons University in Boston. To qualify for dean’s list status, undergraduate students must obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, based on 12 or more credit hours of work in classes using the letter...
Paige Carleton of Groton earned the distinction of Faculty Honors for spring 2025 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 4.0 academic average for the semester.
The town of Dunstable has received $560 from the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) which recently announced awards totaling $117,000 to 43 rural, call, or volunteer fire departments across Massachusetts through the Volunteer Fire Capacity (VFC) Program. The funding will help ...
Ben Misner of Groton was named to second honors on Clark University’s spring 2025 Dean’s List. Students must have a GPA of 3.8 or above for first honors or a GPA between 3.50 and 3.79 for second honors.
Aidan H. Hall of Groton was named to second honors on Clark University’s spring 2025 Dean...
Peter Montesano Scheibe of Groton has been named to the Dean’s List at Hamilton College for the spring 2025 semester. To be named to the Dean’s List, a student must be a current member of the Class of 2025, 2026, or 2027, have carried a course load of four or more graded credits throughout the...