Groton News

The vote came early in a special meeting Tuesday at which the committee also welcomed new Dunstable representative Luis Deloureiro, who replaced Erik Dichter after elections.

If the sidewalks along the route of last Monday's Memorial Day parade didn't seem to be as crowded as in past years, the likely reason was that there appeared to be more people than ever doing the marching.

Gen. Oscar DePriest, statements by American Legion Post Cmdr. Ben French and VFW Cmdr.

Keith Middle School students from left are Jacob Mendes, Will Audette, Crysta Rocha, Mason Hill, Elias Gonzalez, Elijah Santos-Gonzalez, Alana Paine, and Maminata Keita.

The 10-foot-wide, 12-foot-tall book, eight years in the making, was carried into Groton-Dunstable Regional Middle School on Tuesday.

Bird-watchers have to have a good ear for music, bird music, as birds call to each other in the early morning, staking out their territories or perhaps just saying good morning to each other.

If Jack Petropoulos knows anything about Groton voters, it's that they want elected officials to include them in debates about important town issues.

Come and learn how a small beetle is helping to protect our wetlands from being overwhelmed by invasive purple loosestrife.

This American Cancer Society fundraiser will have participants going through Groton this year.

The eighth year of the Janis Bresnahan Run for Education took place under a sky so blue, it looked like it was Photoshopped into the scene.

Ask Kira LaFosse-Baker how she chose a selectman candidate, and she'll tell you the decision was easy: "We wanted someone new." In a small town, experienced incumbents can easily get comfortable with their old friends on elected boards, the local preschool teacher said.

"I made a mistake," a desperate Allison Myrick texted her new boyfriend, John O'Brien, hours before she was allegedly killed at the hands of her previous boyfriend, Robert Gulla.

US Representative Niki Tsongas has filed legislation that state, local, and federal officials hope will help protect the once heavily polluted Nashua River so that it can be a valuable ecological and recreational resource for future generations.

For Erich Garger, the weed-filled murky Lost Lake seems like an example of how town officials have neglected the neighborhood.

Health fair: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Senior Center. The whole community is welcome to come and visit the many vendors, information booths and health screenings.

This is really an urgent situation. Sudbury and Newton have issued townwide pulls and it is widespread in surrounding towns, blooming right now.

Though Groton has only one contested race to attract voters to the town election on May 22, it's an extremely important and high-profile one.

The 90-year-old Groton resident has been trying to master some watercolor painting techniques for a while now.

The Groton Historical Society and the Nashua River Watershed Association invite the public to join us for our "Birds of Groton and Ayer: Birding Walk" at 7 a.m. in Groton.

Anthony Bent, former interim schools superintendent in Leominster, will take the reins of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District as interim superintendent if contractual negotiations are successful.