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Eleven residents from Groton will participate in the 2025 Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai on Sunday, October 5: Kim Cook, JW Crowley, Phin Haskin, Jonah Haskin, Ralph Acaba, Susan Higgins, Ilene Hill, Maureen Naughton, Brenna Crowley, Dave Truex, and one other Groton resident, along with...
From time to time, if it’s a day when three-year-old grandson Max is not in daycare and his grandfather, Groton resident Rich Marton, is going to the “dump,” Max likes to come along to help “Grandpa” with the recyclables. On their visits to the Transfer Station, Rich tells him the numbers imprinted on the plastic recyclables and he can read the numbers on the side of the bays. He now knows all the categories and where the paper, glass and corrugated cardboard goes. Max has been told by Grandpa to wear his safety goggles when throwing items into the glass bays, as shown in the photo above. Photo courtesy of Nancy Ohringer.
It has been 24 years since 9/11, and the Groton Garden Club continues to honor the memory of those killed on that day. The Club maintains the gardens at three memorials in town. The Center Fire Station on Farmer’s Row has a garden that surrounds a piece of steel from the World Trade Center. A...
Paul Henderson of Groton has been named to Western New England University’s President’s List for the spring 2025 semester. Students are named to the President’s List for achieving a semester grade point average of 3.80 or higher.
Paul Henderson of Groton has been named to Western New England...
Christian Montalvo, a Viking Mentor from Ayer, guides a group of ninth-graders on a tour of Nashoba Tech during Freshman Orientation. Photo courtesy Nashoba Tech
Nashoba Valley Technical High School’s Viking Mentors assisted incoming freshmen at orientation on August 26 to welcome the 2025-2026 school year.
Viking Mentors are upperclassmen who have been recommended by staff for demonstrating outstanding leadership and commitment during their first two years...
Groton Fire Department recently welcomed Deputy Chief Terence Gardner. Deputy Chief Gardner has spent the last 18 years with the Littleton Fire Department and is ready to get to work with GFD.
Deputy Chief Gardner began his career as an on-call firefighter in 2007. He quickly signed on as a full-...
Groton Lakes Association Poker Run took place on Saturday August 23. There were 45 players in multiple boats. Seven Dealer Docks (7-card stud Poker) ranged from Sargisson Beach at one end of Knops Pond to Baby Beach at the far end of Lost Lake. Steve Lane was voted best Dealer Dock by the players based on the best handouts and servings. Jeff Gordon of Exit Realty spo nsored the event.
In the picture left to right are Steve Beard, Carol O’Connell, Heather Rhodes, John Reilly, and Kelli Steer. Courtesy photo
Lawrence Academy’s current construction project is underway. The 30+ year-old dining hall is being taken down, making way for a new building that will integrate both a new dining hall and student center to be named Community Commons, The $2.5m project will take up to a year and a half to complete. This new addition will provide a unified, common space for faculty and students, create a central social space morning through night, seven days a week for boarding and day students, meeting rooms for clubs and student government, as well as space for a multipurpose media room. Photo courtesy of Nancy Ohringer.
Pyper Woytaszek of Dunstable has been named to the 2025 spring semester dean’s list at Simmons University in Boston. To qualify for dean’s list status, undergraduate students must obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, based on 12 or more credit hours of work in classes using the letter...
Paige Carleton of Groton earned the distinction of Faculty Honors for spring 2025 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 4.0 academic average for the semester.