Dunstable News

After being named as the 773rd best high school in America by Newsweek earlier this month, Chelmsford High has received another award, this time from a publication closer to home.

Each year for the past four years, music students from Groton-Dunstable Regional High School have competed in the " Music In The Parks " competition in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and have grown accustom to waiting.

The Groton Dunstable Education Foundation announced last week that it has awarded 20 new enrichment grants totaling $22,720 to district schools in its spring grants cycle.

The only controversy at Monday night's annual Town Meeting centered on the Planning Board's proposed new bylaw for regulating large-scale, ground-mounted solar-photovoltaic facilities on parcels of 20 acres and larger.

A quickly spreading fire destroyed a Lost Lake home at 99 Boathouse Road this afternoon.

He's now 35 years old but when Will Wellman was 16, he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a tragic car accident.

Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee chose to enter "uncharted territory" April 24 when it voted to approve an expansion of the district's school-choice program.

It was rainy Thursday night, but the winners of the 2013 Morgan-Babcock Trust scholarship awards were shining inside Town Hall at an event honoring them.

Superintendent Jean Briggs Badger is one of four candidates currently being considered to become superintendent of schools in Newburyport, Mass., according to a report by the Newburyport Daily News.

Last Saturday the Groton-Dunstable girls' track and field team placed fourth at the 40th annual Dick Mulligan District E qualifier meet at Shrewsbury High School.

State Route 40 will be closed Saturday, May 4 just west of Old Dunstable Road so culverts can be replaced.

Erin Smolka was the medalist with a 47 at Groton Country Club as Groton-Dunstable defeated Quabbin, 33.5 to 20.5, in a girls golf match on Tuesday.

A brush fire on Skinners Lane that got out of control Tuesday morning caused $15,000 in damages, destroying two sheds and a camper.

Union Congregational Church, 218 Main St., will hold a yard sale from 9 a.m. to p.m. Saturday in the Fellowship Hall.

N. Chelmsford Post 313 will be holding American Legion baseball tryouts on Saturday, May 11th, at 4pm at Ayotte Field in Chelmsford.

Free Dinner, Live Music and Good Company: All are welcome to the next Groton Community Dinner at First Parish Church, located at the intersection of Route 40 and Route 119 in Groton.

When this column appears in print, the Groton Road Race will be a few days away.

At their April 10 meeting, the Board of Electric Light Commissioners voted to provide a $100,000 grant to the Town for wireless infrastructure for the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District.

The Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee chose to enter "uncharted territory" Wednesday, as it voted to approve an expansion of the district's school-choice program.

Spring Town Meeting opened Monday night with votes on a number of spending items, including a town operating budget, spending for a new group of playing fields, and a special request by the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District for $562,055 for new technology.