The Village of Groton Board of Trustees is still looking to hire a construction company to design and build its new municipal building, and on Monday Jan. 18 the board
Published December 25. 2020 12:01AM | Updated December 25. 2020 5:53PM By
It was a nice gesture for the Groton Board of Education earlier this month to name the library media center at the new middle school the “Dr. Michael Graner Library Media Center” in honor of the retiring superintendent.
If anything, given Graner’s influence on shaping the Groton school system, it doesn’t seem quite enough.
Graner, who announced in July his plans to retire, was hired as Groton superintendent in 2013 after a decade serving in that capacity in Ledyard. He inherited the leadership of a school system that continued to face the challenge of educating a large contingent of children of military families, whose frequent relocations create a special challenge. A school system with aging schools. And a town with wide swings in racial and economic makeup from one neighborhood elementary school to another.