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As the Union Congregational Church at 218 Main St., Groton approaches its 200th anniversary exciting plans are underway! The Church has built a 2,000-square-foot addition, complete with an elevator, to make both its main floors fully accessible to everyone.
The original cornerstone of UCC Groton...
The Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, a nearly 300-year-old tavern listed on the Massachusetts Register of Historic Buildings, has been awarded $50,000 from the Backing Historic Small Restaurants Grant Program, a program presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express....
Ethan Yan, 16, of Groton, has been awarded a $50,000 scholarship for his project, ALLocate: A Low-Cost Automatic Artificial Intelligence System for the Real-Time Localization and Classification of Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Bone Marrow Smears. Ethan is among three Massachusetts students named...
The College of the Holy Cross congratulates the new Crusaders starting at the College in fall 2025. The following local students will be part of the Class of 2029: Jolie Becker of Groton and Jennifer Davey of Groton.
Samuel Manix of Groton has been named to the Champlain College (Burlington, VT) Online Dean’s List for the summer 2025 semester. Students on the Dean’s List have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher during the semester. Manix is currently majoring in Cybersecurity.
Eleven residents from Groton will participate in the 2025 Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai on Sunday, October 5: Kim Cook, JW Crowley, Phin Haskin, Jonah Haskin, Ralph Acaba, Susan Higgins, Ilene Hill, Maureen Naughton, Brenna Crowley, Dave Truex, and one other Groton resident, along with...
From time to time, if it’s a day when three-year-old grandson Max is not in daycare and his grandfather, Groton resident Rich Marton, is going to the “dump,” Max likes to come along to help “Grandpa” with the recyclables. On their visits to the Transfer Station, Rich tells him the numbers imprinted on the plastic recyclables and he can read the numbers on the side of the bays. He now knows all the categories and where the paper, glass and corrugated cardboard goes. Max has been told by Grandpa to wear his safety goggles when throwing items into the glass bays, as shown in the photo above. Photo courtesy of Nancy Ohringer.
It has been 24 years since 9/11, and the Groton Garden Club continues to honor the memory of those killed on that day. The Club maintains the gardens at three memorials in town. The Center Fire Station on Farmer’s Row has a garden that surrounds a piece of steel from the World Trade Center. A...