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On Saturday, the School Committee laid bare the extent of their need for substantial revenue increases, not only to fund new programs, but also simply to keep the schools open and running at current levels. According to a School Committee document released to the joint meeting of FinCom, School...
At about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, January 28, 2016, the Groton Fire Department responded to a fire at 14 Whiley Road that took the life of a man and a woman, believed to be the residents of the single-family home. State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey, Groton Fire Chief Steele McCurdy, and Groton...
Police Chief James G. Downes III reports that the Dunstable Police Department is investigating the stabbing of a teenage male at a house party that left him with serious injuries.
Dunstable Police were called to an address on Adams Street at 3:43 a.m. Saturday for a report of a fight and...
Charts show precinct-by-precinct totals over-all and for Democratic and Republican parties.
Groton Selectmen reviewed their policies on Wednesday night with an eye to considering additions to a 10-page document last revised in 2012. There were two new policies that Chairman Jack Petropoulos wanted to discuss for inclusion in the document.
The first was a policy recommendation that a...
"This is a time for financial leadership and direction," Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Jack Petropoulos told a joint meeting of his board with the Finance Committee. He noted that services needed to be provided to residents and "we need to help the schools" but stressed that the budget needs...
The Regional Agreement Subcommittee, composed of Groton and Dunstable members of the boards of selectmen, finance committees and school committee, is in the midst of reworking the agreement that governs the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District.
Although much of the work of the committee is...
With a vacancy in the Tax Collector/Treasurer's Office for a Payroll Clerk, Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos told the Board and Town Manager Mark Haddad that given the "tough decisions ahead and may require tough decision" he felt it was important to "talk about open positions before we...
The seats were lled in the High School library, but the audience actually said very little as the school administration revealed their proposed budget for the upcoming scal year at a public hearing last Wednesday. No doubt a lot of the interest in this particular FY 2017 budget was the proposed...
In a significant departure from the routine joint Finance Committee and Board of Selectmen annual review of budget requests by department heads, Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos opened the meeting by suggesting the cancellation of the all-day-Saturday meeting until the Town Manager submitted a...