Groton News

Efforts to make "Click It or Ticket" more than just a slogan have shifted into a higher gear after a deadly holiday weekend on Bay State roadways.

Old-timers move on, newcomers move in. The relentless shuffle over time leaves the president of the town's historical society wondering whether local appreciation of Pepperell's most famous patriot will endure.

Hamburgers, Music and Fireworks, Oh My!: Groton is offering a wonderful evening on Town Field, behind the library, beginning at 6:30 p.m. with the Groton Fire Department serving hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages and cold drinks, two musical groups, Mumblefish and ReachOut beginning at 7 p.m., and a huge fireworks display at dusk.

And then there were 291. The Archdiocese of Boston, which had 357 parishes back in 2002, is consolidating another pair of parishes tomorrow.

Leanna Bergeron of Newton graduated from Lawrence Academy during the school's 216th commencement exercises in Groton, Mass.

Free Concert: Pump Up The Volume, the Groton Public Library's Young Adult Summer Reading Program, kicks off with a fantastic free concert in the park behind the library on Friday June 26, 5:30-8:30 PM.

On behalf of the Council on Aging, and the Groton seniors, we want to thank Police Chief Donald Palma, and his staff, for their most wonderful picnic given at the Senior Center on June 17.

Nathan Buckley knows the word "comrades" takes on new meaning when fighting in a war zone.

That the world did not end with the Second coming of Christ on Oct. 22, 1844, was a great disappointment to the members of a small religious community in Groton.

Channel 12 may soon be no longer synonymous with community access TV. Verizon plans to designate three different channels on its own FiOS-TV for public access, educational access and governmental access programs once the town grants the company a cable license.

Finger Lakes Tour: Please see below for details. Monday, June 22 5 p.m., Economic Development Committee, 1st- floor meeting room 6:30 p.m., Board of Selectmen, senior center 6:30 p.m., Zoning Board of Appeals, senior center Tuesday, June 23 GPL Book Group: 6:30 p.m., "Knockemstiff "by Donale Ray Pollack.

After Chelmsford Town Meeting voted to reduce the Nashoba Valley Technical High budget, the Nashoba Tech School Committee asked some of the state's leading law-enforcement departments whether the vote violated the law.

Richard O. Collette, 86, of 8 West Main St., Rivercourt Residences, West Groton died Friday, June 5, at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

As an actor, Rocky Provencher crawls inside the characters he portrays, and they include the man for whom Tyngsboro is named.

A 56-year-old Westford man who owns a company that has been testing wells around the region for 50 years faces a 54-count criminal indictment accusing him of theft and lying to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Special Town Meeting last night resoundingly approved the $52,070 increased assessment for the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District.

Everybody's heard the words reduce, recycle and reuse to help save the environment, but sometimes some of us need a little cash incentive to hop onboard the green machine.

Seven days a week, from mid-May through Thanksgiving, the owner of the Herb Lyceum in Groton commutes into Boston to sell potted herbs and a variety of herb-infused honeys, soaps and culinary salts.

Groton resident Michael Linzey has attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouting.

Flags and banners fill the street during Chelmsford's Fourth of July parade in 2006.