GROTON — The Groton Open Space Association will hold its 2010 annual membership meeting Oct. 21 as a major GOSA acquisition effort approaches its climax. The scheduled guest speaker for the meeting, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, is author of a book on Connecticut’s geology. The meeting will take place against the background of the GOSA [...]
GROTON — The Groton Open Space Association has launched a new version of its website, which started in March 2002. Readers should find the new WordPress system easy to navigate after brief familiarization. We have not included any special instructions because the system is intuitive. Over the next few weeks, all articles that appeared [...]
Mission Of Beech Brook Farm Explained: March 2, 2010 GROTON — Beech Brook Farm Inc., 125 Fishtown Road, Mystic, has asked the Groton Open Space Association to note that the Farm’s mission is to rescue abused and neglected equines, not to make a profit. In addition, Deborah Finco-Kent, owner and president of Beech Brook Farm, [...]
GROTON — The prize-winning naturalist and illustrator David Carroll, who learned to love turtles in a now-vanished swamp of Groton, showed GOSA members around still-rich New Hampshire habitats in a photo-illustrated lecture at the GOSA annual meeting Oct. 15, 2009. Mr. Carroll was introduced by GOSA Director Edith Fairgrieve, who said his “presence this [...]
GROTON — Joan Smith, a longstanding director of the Groton Open Space Association, was elected GOSA’s president pro tem at a meeting of directors July 8, 2009. No other candidates stood for election, and the vote for Ms. Smith was unanimous. Ms. Smith steps into the job following the death of President Priscilla W. Pratt [...]
by Joan Smith It was a sad day, but a beautiful day, the day Priscilla left us. We will miss her terribly. Yet we know she had a good life right up to the very end. She led a well-examined life, blessed by good friends and family, and she was committed to the welfare [...]
GROTON–Two community events have raised more than $2,800 for GOSA. On May 29, 2004, GOSA was the beneficiary of a GOSA Community Day held by the Puritan and Genesta Natural Food Store at 2 Holmes St., Mystic. Puritan and Genesta gave GOSA a percentage of most sales for the day. In addition, GOSA members staffed [...]
GROTON–The Town of Groton has begun monthly publication of a report on its activities, including a section on residential housing applications. The first of the monthly reports, which had been requested by Groton Open Space Association, covers December, 2003. It takes the form of a memorandum by Planning and Development Director Michael J. Murphy to [...]
GROTON–Among wide-ranging comments on the draft of a state plan on conservation and development, GOSA has called for strengthened bus and rail transportation in the Groton area. The organization said that the major obstacle to reducing vehicle traffic in Groton is “the inadequacy of the regional bus system (SEAT) and the absence of passenger service [...]
GROTON–Developers have unconditionally withdrawn their SLAPP suit against Groton Open Space Association. The developers–operating as Mystic Estates Partners of New London and Ravenswood Construction LLC of Cheshire–had received two demands from GOSA’s attorney, Paulann H. Sheets, to drop the action or face a suit themselves. The suit against GOSA was formally terminated July 25, 2003. [...]
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