Cornelius "Connie" Sullivan, a Republican candidate for the First Middlesex house seat, has challenged his primary Republican opponent Sheila Harrington to a series of monthly debates. He's chastized her for refusing his call for monthly debates starting now and held in each of the district's 5 communities - Ayer, Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell and Townsend. Sullivan has stated that if Harrington doesn't comply, he'll start conducting his debate series without her present.
The primary is some six months away on September 14. The general election is November 2. Harrington has answered that she's not afraid to debate Sullivan, but rather that there's plenty of time to debate later in the campaign in the weeks before the election. Harrington said the voters need adequate time to learn about the candidates and the candidates need adequate time in the field gathering voter concerns to properly form their platforms.
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03/05/2010 04:21 PM EST - GROTON -- A man accused of secretly building a pond-side home in rural Groton has been fined $50,000 and ordered to seek the appropriate permits, according to local officials.
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03/05/2010 09:53 AM EST - GROTON - Fearful that a relentless tide of expenses in the form of salaries and wages would swamp the town and leave it floundering, members of the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee met with officials from the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee to discuss a possible override measure needed to address a shortfall in the schools' fiscal 2011 budget.
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03/05/2010 09:57 AM EST - GROTON - No votes were taken, but it sounds likely that the Board of Selectmen will downsize elements of the "maintenance budget" for town operations that was proposed in late December by Town Manager Mark Haddad.
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03/05/2010 10:25 AM EST - GROTON - Pleading exhaustion after five years as a member of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee in which more and more time was spent wrangling over the minutiae of budgeting in the face of ever shrinking revenue, Paul Funch has decided not to seek reelection for a second term.
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03/05/2010 02:34 PM EST - GROTON - The Groton-
Dunstable Athletic Booster
Club will be conducting its
annual Phonathon beginning
Tuesday evening, March 9th,
and will be held each weekday
evening, Monday through
Thursday, from 6:30 to 8:30
p.
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03/05/2010 02:35 PM EST - GROTON - Local officials cried foul when the
state axed plans for a Civil War reenactment on town
land at Surrenden Farms last October, but recent
indications are that MassWildlife will continue to use
a conservation restriction to veto any events it deems
inappropriate.
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03/05/2010 02:35 PM EST - GROTON - Street and
building numbers have been a
public safety requirement in
Groton since the 1990s and a
recent update of town regulations
is intended to give residents
a better idea of what's
being required.
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03/05/2010 02:34 PM EST - GROTON - Groton-Dunstable students building the
biggest book in the world, whose topic is peace, will welcome
the first responders who arrived at the scene of the
9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, on April
16 and 17 at the middle school.
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03/05/2010 08:56 AM EST - GROTON -- The Town of Groton is officially seeking proposals for reuse of the vacant Tarbell School in West Groton, following Selectboard approval of a Request for Proposal to that effect on Feb.
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03/05/2010 10:18 AM EST - GROTON - Facing a nearly $2 million shortfall, the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District is expected to finalize an override proposal within the month and at least a couple of Selectmen are concerned that could become an annual event.
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