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The State House of Representatives has approved and sent to the Senate a bill (Town Treasurers, Collectors and Assessors-H 1832) that would authorize a city or town, acting through its board of selectmen, city council or mayor with the approval of the city council, to enter an employment contract...
Town Manager Mark Haddad reported to Selectmen that the town had received four bids for the Municipal Operational Audit that was approved by voters at Fall Town Meeting. The four included: Community Paradigm Associates, Plymouth; Novak Consulting Group, Cincinnati, OH; Matrix Consulting Group,...
Following direction of the Fall Town Meeting voters to establish a joint committee composed of some members of the Prescott School Committee and the Council on Aging Feasibility Committee to address the evaluations of a site for the Groton Senior Center, Town Manager Mark Haddad provided the Board...
Following the recommendation of the Finance Committee, Selectmen appointed long-time, former Groton Dunstable Regional School Committee member Jon Sjøberg to fill a vacancy on that Committee. Sjøberg told the board that he wants to drive good communications between the town and the schools so that...
  Groton Council on Aging asked voters for an additional $20,000 to study the possibility of building an access road behind Prescott School and to determine if the historic Main Street school would meet the needs of the Senior Center based on their criteria. Voters at Spring Town Meeting already...

SC Member Stephanie Cronin, Representative Shelia Harrington, Auditor Suzanne Block, Superintendent Rodriguez, SC Member Alison Manugian

   State Auditor Suzanne Bump visited Groton for what turned into a town hall meeting with a small but influential audience.  Auditor Bump was here at the invitation of Groton Dunstable Superintendent Kristan Rodriguez to talk on the subject of “unfunded state mandates” which place a heavy burden...
   The impact of Indian Hill Music’s highly anticipated project presentation to the Planning Board was diminished because plans for the 120,500 square foot School and Performance Center already had been presented at two well-attended public events. Still, there was a good-sized audience at the...
Fall Town Meeting voters narrowly defeated any possibility of returning to taxpayers money approved at Spring Town Meeting, but that was not fully spent on the budgeted items. Ignoring the vote by a majority Board of Selectman to help out residents by returning $400,000 of the more than $1.2M...
Voters at the Oct 17th Fall Town Meeting approved a maximum of $45,000 to pay for the cost of an operational audit of town operations. This was based on work done by the Sustainable Budget Study Committee who recommended a top to bottom audit of the town operations. The town received four bids for...
Hollingsworth & Vose, a global manufacturer of advanced materials for filtration, battery separator, and industrial applications, announced, Oct. 18, that the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission has awarded its Floyd, VA facility a $500,000 follow-on R&D grant. H&V’s...

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