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The Massachusetts House voted 155-0, to approve and send to the Senate a bill allowing the state to borrow $200 million as grant money for local cities and towns for road and bridge repairs. Under this proposal Groton would receive $505,608 and Dunstable would receive $178,897. This funding would...
Plan One: Public Parking Behind Main Street Banks
by Russell Harris
Acknowledging a perceived need for more municipal parking around the Center, Selectmen and the Town Manager are working on a promising public-private proposal to reconfigure and remake the two privately owned parking lots behind...
The Community Preservation Committee is recommending a total of $607,592 in spending from the Preservation Fund for this year. There are six articles that will be presented to voters, asking for the project funding. The amount includes $25,845 for an Accessible Trails Project; $200,000 for the...
The cost of municipal government which makes up 45 percent of the total FY2016 budget is increasing by 4.57 percent, and the cost for the schools, representing 55 percent of the budget is rising by 3.48 percent with a decrease in its debt. The anticipated revenue growth for the town is expected to...
The potential for a Mass. Works State Grant for a 'shovel-ready' project for the Four Corners Sewer could be a game changer for that area if Spring Town Meeting voters pass the request for $285K for engineering and $2.5M for construction. According to Town Manager Mark Haddad the risk to the town...
Responding to a call reporting a potential hostage-taking situation in progress at 164 Main Street, with one person reported to have harmed another, Groton Police quickly cordoned off a short section of Main Street from Town Hall to the mouth of Route 40 shortly before 2:00 pm on Monday afternoon...
Groton Police Chief Donald Palma stressed that he did not consider the calls to Police Dispatch on Monday, regarding the potential serious injury to an individual in a barn and the planting of pipe bomb, at sites on Main Street, as a 'hoax'. "I don't take it as a hoax and I have information that...
Town Manager Mark Haddad told the Finance Committee Monday night that he is "not going to support the municipal sewer proposal for the Four Corners unless the businesses want it."
He stressed that he is working closely with commercial property owners in this area, adding that no one has opted out...
With the costs of municipal government continuing to rise, the budget that will be presented to voters at Annual Spring Town Meeting will reflect a close to seven percent increase in this area without including the town's debt service. Although Town Manager Mark Haddad is responsible by Charter to...
Hancock Board of Selectmen have retained the services of Attorney Vincent DeVito of Bowditch & Dewey of Boston to pursue legal action against Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation (BWPCC), owned by 14 towns in the eastern part of the Commonwealth and operator of the 10-wind turbine...