A 51-year-old Haverhill man was cited for failure to slow down for pedestrians after a 67-year-old Groveland woman and 7-year-old juvenile were struck Monday morning while crossing a street near Groveland’s Dr. Elmer S. Bagnall School. Groveland Police Chief Jeffrey T. Gillen said a Groveland police officer stationed near the Bagnall School received a report […]
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Fifty-three students from Groveland’s Dr. Elmer S. Bagnall School recently participated in a Drug Abuse Resistance Education or DARE graduation ceremony. Superintendent Justin Bartholomew, Groveland Police Chief Jeffrey T. Gillen and Interim Principal Brenda Erhardt said police Sgt. Josh Sindoni teaches students drug and alcohol resistance, but also empathy, respect, responsibility, communications, anti-bullying techniques, how to deal […]
A new online budget calculator is available to help residents of Groveland and Merrimac weigh impacts of overriding the state’s tax-limiting law to pay the proposed Pentucket Regional School District spending plan. To pay for the Pentucket Regional School Committee’s recommended a $50.7 million budget for the 2023-2024 school year, Groveland is asked to raise […]
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Groveland Town Hall. (File photograph.)
Former Groveland Selectman Joseph D’Amore says the town has evolved greatly since its founding in 1850, but relatively low citizen involvement in recent years suggests more changes are need.
D’Amore, a force behind expanding the board of selectmen to five members, tells WHAV volunteerism may be up in some areas such as church and nonprofit work, but down in local government.
“This is not a COVID thing. This is a long-term trend that we are seeing across most municipalities throughout the Commonwealth,” he says.
D’Amore says today’s town government was largely shaped by a change in structure approved at Town Meeting in 1954, followed decades later by adding a finance director and then expanding the Board of Selectmen to five members in 2014. The next logical step is the hiring of a town administrator, he says, and voters will have a chance to weigh in on the concept at Town Meeting Monday, May 24, 7 p.m., at the