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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...
Town Manager Mark Haddad presented three budget scenarios requested by Selectmen and the Finance Committee to a joint meeting of the two groups on Monday night. This was a meeting to present the information on the scenarios and no action was taken. The ultimate decision is the Finance Committee's...
Toward the end of a more than two-hour joint Saturday meeting with School Committee, Selectmen Chairman Petropoulos floated a new idea for school funding, thus injecting a dose of political reality into the discussion of school funding requests, requests that have strayed far from the hard calculus...
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...