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Groton Assessors Jenifer Evans and Garrett Boles drew a line in the sand, refusing to permit inaccurate pricing data for 150 baseline Groton residential properties to be sent to the DOR [Department of Revenue] for certification until the pricing data is fixed. Since data from these 150 sample...
Town Manager Mark Haddad made some sobering comments as he approached the development of the municipal Fiscal Year 2018 budget. At his department meeting on Monday, he gave guidance for the budget preparations such that the total budget he presents to the Board of Selectmen does not exceed a 2.4...
Town Manager Mark Haddad announced that the Town of Groton was just notified that it has received a grant through the state run Mass Works Program to install municipal sewer at Four Corners. Over a year ago, town approved expenditure of $300,000 for engineering and design for a $3M sewer system at...
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry, Inc. has received a $10,000 grant awarded by the Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation. The financial support will allow Loaves & Fishes to develop a series of videos to enhance the volunteer training program and make the volunteer experience more consistent,...
Greg Sheldon, Chairman of the Municipal Building Committee for Prescott School, and Mihran Keoseian, Chairman of the Council on Aging Feasibility Committee, along with Town Manager Mark Haddad have developed a plan for how their committees will work together to address the Fall Town Meeting vote...
Following defeat - by a mere six votes- at Fall Town Meeting of a proposal to offset the tax rate by returning money to the taxpayers from the town’s $1.2M in Free Cash, Town Manager Mark Haddad wants to use $200,000 of these funds to pay down the deficit in OPEB (Other Post-Employment Benefits)...
As the Fall Town Meeting-approved Municipal Audit moves forward with interviews with four companies that responded to the Request for Proposal (RFP), Selectmen have been working toward appointing an Audit Committee to help oversee the consultants work and to plan for implementation of the findings...
The primary purpose of the October 27 Planning Board meeting was to hear, collect and understand abutter comments, concerns and criticisms of Indian Hill Music’s Site Plan. Planning Board Chairman Russell Burke said a primary part of the Planning Board’s review process is to understand resident...
Voters at Fall Town Meeting approved transfer of $45,000 from the Historic Preservation Reserve of the Community Preservation Act for the repair of the foundation at Williams Barn. One of the few remaining 1840s barns left in Groton, the historic structure suffered a collapse at the northern...
Selectmen approved a permit to remove up to 80,000 cubic yards of excess excavation material from the Music Center at Indian Hill site at 122 Old Ayer Road, contingent on the Planning Board’s approval of the site plan.
This large volume of material is being generated mostly ‘due to extremely deep...