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Groton Economic Development Committee gave a very brief overview of the committee's activities over the past 12 to 18 months to the Board of Selectmen, including a brief description of a work in progress, and the development of a proposal that the town hire an Economic Development Director.
The...
Two men have been charged after allegedly shooting two Trumpeter swans at the Princeton Wildlife Area in Scott County. Levi Young, 25, of Davenport, and Kyle Munson, 25, of Eldridge, allegedly shot the two swans while waterfowl hunting, killing one and injuring the other. Attempts to capture the...
The old issue of lack of trust among some members of the Board of Selectmen was evident when Selectman Chairman Jack Petropoulos raised the need to discuss the renewal of Town Manager Mark Haddad's employment contract. Haddad must be notified by the Board by the end of December as to whether or not...
Questioning Conservation Commission land purchase funding at last spring's Town Meeting, Selectmen Chairman Jack Petropoulos asked hypothetically, - "Is there ever enough [land]?" He later said, "There has to be a point at which we have bought enough land."
At Selectmen's September 21 meeting,...
Selectmen approved an Earth Removal Exemption for David Elliott at 36 Court Street to remove 3,000 cubic yards of material from the former May and Hally Oil Company as part of a 21E cleanup.
Earth Removal Inspector Michelle Collette told the Board that this was a straightforward effort to...
Hollingsworth & Vose, a global manufacturer of advanced materials for filtration, battery separator, and industrial applications, announced the successful commercial start-up of the Technostat filter media production line in the new Floyd, Virginia Plant 2 facility.
The additional North...
After 33 years as a town employee, after having worked with 38 elected Planning Board members, after having helped transition Groton government from a mostly volunteer activity to a respected, efficient and professional operation, Land Use Director/Town Planner Michelle Collette will retire at the...
As of the Friday September 18 deadline for submitting suggested changes to the Charter, 125 separate suggestions ranging from the short and pointed to the long and discursive, had been posted on the Review Committee's home page. In addition to these suggestions presented in 70 pages, Review...
The Lost Lake fire Protection Program is nearly completed. The project involves the installation of two 50,000 gallon fire cisterns. The first cistern is installed at the intersection of Prescott and Off-Prescott on land donated by the Baptist Camp and the other on Weymissit Road on land donated by...
Reviewing the actuarial report of the town's 'other post employment benefits', Town Manager Mark Haddad announced that the town's liability had grown by about $1 million from 2011 to 2014 - from $7,100,000 to $8,135,000. If the town were required to fully fund its post-employment retiree benefits,...