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Town Manager Mark Haddad warned Selectmen Monday night that the recent municipal budget reductions to meet the major $2M shortfall in the Groton Dunstable Regional School Committee budget, coupled with the unexpected $50K increase for snow and ice removal this winter brings the town "dangerously...
Town Elections this year are generating a lot of interest as a number of residents have taken out nomination papers for several town boards.
Approximately half-way through the nomination period for filing papers for elective town offices, contested races are shaping up on three different boards....
Groton voters indicated that they had very little interest in changing from an open Town Meeting form of government to a representative town meeting, according to results from input at public meetings and a questionnaire distributed and returned to the Town Meeting Study Committee.
Committee...
Building a large Hindu temple in a small New England town in an exotic architectural style and more than 200 parking spaces, a building with a spire possibly reaching more than 100 feet, would seem to be the perfect candidate for controversy.
Yet, the location of the temple on the Littleton/...
Frustrations and tensions ran high at the joint meeting of the Groton Finance Committee, Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee and Selectmen as there were still no definitive answers from the school board on what the FY2015 budget number is and this is a critical number as it determines the...
Selectmen have called for a Special Town Election to be held Tuesday, April 1. The ballot will contain one question, asking voters to "exclude" bond payments for the new fire station from the limits of Proposition 2 ½ on the Town's tax levy.
This technique, called debt exclusion, is commonly used...
Probing the Fire Department budget, Finance Committee Chairman Prager asked Fire Chief Joe Bosselait how Department performance would be impacted if the shift coverage by full time firefighters was reduced.
Chief Bosselait said that Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. full-time...
Funding for the schools remains a challenge, even after cutting deeply into the Groton municipal budget. Finance Committee Member Prager pointed out that there is a lot of information that is needed in order to make decisions, stressing that the budget from the school needs to be "sustainable."...
Selectmen voted to ratify their 2010 Memorandum of Understanding with Groton Electric Light Department (GELD) for a land exchange at the Station Avenue property whereby the Town of Groton would swap approximately .9 acres of land to be used for GELD's new buildings in exchange for GELD giving the...
In an effort to have a full understanding of the serious issues with the Regional School Department budget shortfall, and to share concerns and financial plans and status, the Groton Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee met with the Dunstable Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee along with...