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THE HOUSE AND SENATE
This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators' votes on three roll calls from prior legislative sessions. There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.
RAISE MINIMUM WAGE TO $9 (S 1925)
Senate 6-32, rejected an amendment that would raise the minimum...
Have you ever wanted to bid on an unopened safe, imagining what the contents would look like? Are you curious as to why the town of Groton would own such a thing and why it has remained locked? What could possibly be in there and who put it there?
To find out, you could be the successful bidder at...
Sunday, a young Groton man fell about 30 feet off ruins of the Castle on Gibbet Hill at about 3:00 in the afternoon. He was airlifted from nearby Lawrence Academy Field by helicopter to Mass General in Boston. Additional information was not available at press time.
Another one of Groton's historic structures is soon to be put up for sale following approval from Selectmen Monday night to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the soon to be vacated Center Fire Station on Station Avenue. Proposals from prospective bidders are due to the Selectmen's office by...
New Hampshire Executive Council, which approves bonding issues over $10,000 in the state of New Hampshire, has approved a loan guarantee of $2.7 million for Thomas More College in Merrimack, NH. The vote to approve the loan guarantee came at the Executive Council's Nov. 6 meeting and was split 2-1-...
MassDevelopment has issued a $75 million, tax-exempt bond on behalf of the Groton School to renovate its Schoolhouse building and to refund prior bond issuances.
The bond issue will:
·fund $10 million of the $48 million Schoolhouse renovation
·provide $15 million in temporary bridge financing for...
Florence Roche Interim Principal Elizabeth Garden introduced several changes to report cards, changes based on feedback from parents saying, "We received lots of feedback." These changes allow teachers to give a more nuanced, a more finely calibrated view of student performance. In particular the...
Will Lost Lake be unusable 'within our lifetimes' as Environmental Consultants CEI predicted in their Thursday presentation to the Lost Lake Sewer Committee, or can the lake be preserved as a recreational resource with appropriate treatments and monitoring?
Selectmen contracted a new study of...
Groton has contracted with Emergency Communications Network to license its CodeRED high-speed notification solution. The CodeRED system provides Groton officials the ability to deliver messages quickly to targeted areas or the entire town.
Donald Palma, Groton's Emergency Management Agency...
Representative Sheila C. Harrington (R-Groton) was joined by the entire Mass. House of Representatives in unanimously approving a welfare reform package aimed at increasing oversight of the taxpayer-funded Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) program.
"This Bill has been long overdue. As the Ranking...