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Dear Editor, Various members of the FinCom, and perhaps some residents, seem to think the job of the FinCom is to be “supporters” of town budgets. However the description in the MMA handbook for Finance Committee members states a municipal FinCom serves as “the watchdog of the taxpayers”. ...
Dear Groton Voters,       As a candidate for the Groton-Dunstable School Committee, I offer you a personal look at my background.       I was born and raised in Malden. I spent my younger years growing up in a household with three brothers, one sister and my grandmother that was diagnosed with...
Fellow Residents of Groton,       My name is Angela Donahue and I ask for your vote on May 17th to serve as a three-year member of the GDRSD School Committee.  My husband Pat and I moved to Groton in 2005 when we decided we wanted to raise our three daughters, now ages 13, 11 and 8, in a rural...
Dear Editor:      On the debacle between the Groton and Dunstable School Committees, the disagreement seems to be over the cost of educating our students. Roughly, almost a million dollars per town.    It seems the two towns may be better off by separating. If this is legally possible, we have...
Dear Editor I am announcing my candidacy for re-election to the Groton Board of Selectmen. Groton is facing tremendous financial challenges currently. We are trying to jointly fund the collective needs of our schools along with our municipal requirements. I have and will continue to demonstrate...
Dear Editor,     I most recently had the displeasure of reading a poisonous letter to the editor written by Finance Committee Member, Art Prest. I feel that poisonous is a relative term because at a time when our two governing boards are trying to work through a challenging revenue problem; he...
To the Editor:      Imagine, if you will, traveling with your children down to Philadelphia, PA, to see Independence Hall – birthplace of our country’s Declaration of Independence and Constitution.  Only, on arrival, you discover it has fallen to a developer’s jackhammer as your history, and that...
Dear Editor: One of the major goals and focus of Groton Woman’s Club is funding its  scholarship program.  Scholarships are awarded, immediately before graduation to residents of the town of Groton who have completed their junior and senior years’ work in the Groton-Dunstable Regional High School,...
Dear Editor, At last night’s  BoS meeting, the school board chair stated that the Town of Acton has regular overrides for school funding.  In researching the FinCom of Acton’s statements, that is absolutely not the case and they declared a number of years ago not to have any Prop 2 1/2 overrides...
To the Editor,    There have been many opinions expressed, even outrage, at the recent Board of Selectmen decision to ratify the town manager contract.  I welcome people addressing these concerns directly to me.  I also want to remind the citizens of Groton how the town is managed in a synopsis of...

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