Schools
Abigail Cullip
Each year, 351 towns across the Commonwealth select one eighth-grade student to represent their town in the Project 351 Ambassador Program. This year, Groton-Dunstable Regional Middle School educators nominated 19 potential leaders. Of these, one from each of our towns was selected to represent ...
The Training Resources and Internship Network (TRAIN) grant program, launched in 2016, is designed to support long-term unemployed, under-employed and new entrant adult workers who seek to enter/reenter the workforce and address this workforce shortage. TRAIN grant funding addresses the needs of...
Some of the officers of the student-led mental health support group, Mind Matters.
by Robert Stewart
In normal times, the teenage years are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for girls and boys to learn and define themselves and their relationship with others and with the countless challenges impending on the horizon as they transition to women and men. In such an...
by Fay Raynor, GDRSD Building Committee Chair, www.florencerocheproject.org
The Florence Roche Elementary School Building project will be presented to Groton residents during the Town of Groton’s Spring Town Meeting on May 1, 2021. The vote at the town meeting will consider moving the...
Automotive Services is one of two programs, along with Plumbing, being offered at Nashoba Tech through MassHire and the Nashoba Career Technical Institute.
CCCMassHire, in partnership with the Nashoba Career Technical Institute at Nashoba Valley Technical High School and Commonwealth Corporation, is seeking interested candidates for training in two high-demand careers.
Plumbing starts Monday, March 1, but candidates must first be deemed...
by Robert Stewart
It has been one year since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the subsequent shutdown of business activity, commerce, municipal operations, schools and the free flow of individuals. Those actions were taken in response to emergency declarations aimed at slowing the...
Mount Wachusett Community College is putting out the call for students and parents in North Central Massachusetts to submit original artwork for a virtual exhibit to be held through the Fitchburg Art Museum in March.
The exhibit, called “Portrait of a Graduate in North Central Mass”, is...
by Connie Sartini
Town Manager Mark Haddad advised the Select Board, “Based on the construction laws and the Massachusetts School Building Authority process, the Florence Roche Building Committee had to determine whether or not to construct the project under the traditional design, bid,...
Dear Groton voters,
At Groton Spring Town Meeting, taxpayers will consider authorizing a tax increase of approximately $61/ per month (based on an average home value of $492,000) to replace Florence Roche Elementary School. I believe most Groton taxpayers, like myself, have some level of...
Veterinary Assisting staff and sophomores, and some of their furry friends, stand in front of the area that will become a dog-training area in the spring. Front row, from left, are Collette Dufresne (Chelmsford), Carli Cogliano (Chelmsford), Sophia O'Donoghue (Littleton), Hailey Murtagh (Townsend), Chloe Greenslade (West- ford), Kayleigh Pearson (Westford), Joanna DeSouza (Lowell) and Lily Lavigueur; and, back row, from left, Isabella Leonardo (Townsend), Ayva Parsons (Pepperell), Instructor Kate Hawkins, Alivia Ryan (Pepperell) and Savannah Albert (Pepperell).
Thanks to a grant from the Westford Education Foundation, the Veterinary Assisting program at Nashoba Valley Technical High School this spring will have a outdoor area for students to learn the skill of dog training.
The Veterinary Assisting program received the Innovative Grant from the...