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In a competitive challenge to Kinder Morgan's pipeline construction proposal, Spectra Energy [SE] and Northeast Utilities (NU) are offering a plan called Access Northeast to address the region's natural gas needs by upgrading and expanding existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure along all-...
On Thursday afternoon in West Groton, Groton police arrested an alleged drug dealer - Shane Conely - after serving a 'high risk' search warrant and on his Pepperell Road home.
After an investigation, Police determined that they had grounds to believe that Conley, 28, had firearms in his home as...
The Planning Board voted unanimously to adopt its recently amended Town Center Design Guidelines. These amended guidelines codify design options for properties included in the Town Center Overlay District in exhaustive detail.
Despite its name, the actual Town Center Overlay District currently...
How much should town officials ask voters to put into the Capital Stabilization Fund at the October 20 Fall Town Meeting? Town Manager Mark Haddad wants to put $400,000 into the fund, while only $335,000 would be required to maintain the balance in the fund to Department of Revenue recommendations...
This article was largely based on information provided to the Groton Herald in a press release by Kinder Morgan, parent company of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company [TGP].
For the past several months, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (TGP) has been planning the proposed Northeast Energy...
Selectmen want to remove Prescott School from inclusion in the expansion of the Town Center Overlay District (TCOD) that is being proposed by the Planning Board in an article on the warrant for Town Meeting to change zoning districts.
Earlier the Board had asked for the town-owned property to be...
A relatively low turnout of 14 percent of registered voters set up key match-ups for political offices in the November General Election. Town Clerk Michael Bouchard reported that out of 7,640 registered voters in town, only 1,083 went to the polls on Tuesday.
Of those who went to the polls, most...
In preparation for a civil jury trial, Attorney Robert H. Bowen, representing four aggrieved former veteran Groton Firefighters - Clarence Jefferson, Stephen Tervo, Benjamin Miele and James Horan - filed a civil suit in Middlesex Superior Court, charging the Town Manager, The Board of Selectmen and...
Town Manager Mark Haddad advised the Board that there were currently 26 articles slated for the Fall Town Meeting Warrant. These will be reviewed at a Public Hearing scheduled for Monday Sept.15 with Selectmen and Finance Committee.
Haddad proposed increases to salaries of three employees based on...
"The hiring of a Realtor to market the two town-owned properties, Tarbell and Prescott Schools was of no value whatsoever," stated Town Manager Mark Haddad following the opening of bids for the town properties on Wednesday morning, Sept. 9.
"There were no additional bids for either building,"...