Groton News

Its work completed, screening committee members met with the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee last week to submit the names of five candidates they had chosen as finalists to replace departing superintendent Alan Genovese.

While it is not unusual to have such a string of violent crimes in a big city environment like Boston or New York or Philadelphia, the violence that seems to be on the rise in Massachusetts is unusual based primarily on where it is occurring.

There hasn't been a professional opera premier in Boston for over 15 years, and Groton-based singer Clare McCallan is pretty excited about helping the wait come to an end.

Ayer, Littleton, and Groton Police Departments are on the scene of an Ayer train accident involving a rail company work truck.

The Groton-Dunstable Regional School District now projects the potential budget shortfall for next fiscal year to be about $2.4 million, down from the $3 million deficit anticipated last week, as the outlook for state education funding is changing quickly.

In anticipation of a grueling budget formulation process for fiscal 2011, school officials at the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District continue to prepare the groundwork against the time when definite figures needed for decision making are in hand.

Walking down the stairs of her estranged boyfriend's basement apartment in Shirley early last month, Allison Myrick told police she was "terrified" when she saw Robert Gulla -- now charged with her murder -- holding her cell phone.

Early indications are that Gov.Deval Patrick's budget proposal will yield greater-than-anticipated state aid for the town and schools -- but it remains unclear if those numbers will pass muster with the Legislature.

A 19-year-old Shirley man who suffered stab and gunshot wounds during a Saturday night incident in Shirley that also left a 19-year-old Groton woman dead was described as a person of interest in the investigation.

The local school superintendent's plan to spend more time with his grandchildren will have to wait if his bid for the top job in a New Hampshire school district is successful.

General Assignment Reporter Jessica Van Sack is the Herald's Boston police bureau chief covering crime and justice.

Fitchburg State College won't forget Allison Myrick, a freshman from Groton who was slain in Shirley over the weekend.

The old Tarbell School has stood vacant off Pepperell Road for about two years, but selectmen are moving forward with a schedule that could put a reuse proposal before voters at the Town Meeting this spring.

The 19-year-old Groton woman killed Saturday had done the right thing in seeking a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, said Joanne Tulonen, the director of Battered Women's Resources/YWCA. Allison Myrick, a first-year student at Fitchburg State College, took out a restraining order against Robert Gulla, 19, a week ago in Fitchburg District ...

Robert Gulla, 19, of Groton, stabbed Myrick to death Saturday night and then shot and stabbed himself, according to Leone.

Shirley Police are working with state troopers in what appears to be a horrific case of domestic abuse.

Church officials at a Catholic parish in Groton and Pepperell removed a lay member after he was accused of inappropriate conduct.

The Agricultural Commission has been presented with a situation which early proponents of the group's formation argued would be one of its most important roles, that of acting as mediator between agricultural interests in town and residents complaining about farm-related activities and nuisances.

By a wide margin, voters in Groton joined their fellow citizens across Massachusetts Tuesday in choosing Republican state Sen.

It could cost Groton 33 percent more and Townsend 11 percent more to provide health services next fiscal year if the Nashoba Associated Boards of Health decides to update its assessment for participating communities for the first time in 20 years.