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Natural Heritage regulators have signed off on lighting plans for Groton's long-delayed Cow Pond Brook Road athletic fields, clearing a key hurdle for the town's cost-cut redesign of the youth sports complex.

The Cow Pond Brook Road athletic fields redesign advanced this week as project engineers walked the Conservation Commission (August 11) and Planning Board (August 13) through a cost-cutting value engineering plan, including gravel parking, cheaper curbing and walkway materials, at-grade…

A revised plan to improve the town's playing fields at Cal Pond Brook Road is being prepared for resubmission as officials sort out how much of a scope reduction it will need to reach a fall Town Meeting vote.

Groton's push to upgrade town playing fields at Cal Pond Brook Road is moving again, though slowly: the Conservation Commission kept a placeholder public hearing open July 28 on the Town of Groton's notice of intent for the 599 Cal Pond Brook Road fields (Parcel 248-47) while officials …

A fight over turtle protections and access to Groton-Dunstable Youth Baseball League's fields spilled into a Conservation Commission hearing this week, with league and Park Commission leaders pressing for relief from a road-closure order.

The biggest sports story in Groton this week wasn't a game but a gate: Groton-Dunstable Youth Baseball League President Josh Pollock told the Conservation Commission on July 14 that closure of the Cow Pond Access Road, ordered to protect turtles under a 2009 wetlands determination, is c…

Groton's annual fireworks celebration receives an update as the town heads into the last week of June.

Groton's town government issued an update June 22 on its annual fireworks celebration, per the town website. On the recreation front, the town's ongoing pickup softball (Sundays) and pickup baseball (Wednesdays) programs remain open to participants — contact Jon Strauss at 978-870-8596 …

Park Commission vacancy draws two applicants as Groton's Select Board opens joint appointment process.

Groton's Select Board and Park Commission met June 15 to interview two applicants — longtime former commissioner Jeff Oberinger and community newcomer Eric Burr — for an open Park Commission seat running through the 2027 annual election. Both candidates cited the Cow Pond area as a prio…