Groton ― The announcement transmitted over dispatch at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday that all departments for Groton Fire Alarm were operating on the state radio system was met with applause as fire, EMS, poli...
Groton ― The female driver of an SUV died and two people whose pickup police said she hit on Route 184 were seriously injured early Friday night.
Town Police said that at approximately 6:24 p.m., Gro...
Groton ― The Town Council has allocated $2.4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds for various projects in the community, from emergency communications center improvements to upgrades to the Groto...
Groton ― U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Second District) announced Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a $739,569 grant to the City of Groton that will allow first responders t...
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Published December 28. 2020 4:34PM By
The Day and theday.com have a longstanding holiday tradition of publishing a series on interesting local people who come to our attention — or more often, whom the newsroom seeks out, because the subjects are typically not in the limelight. The articles share a theme, and the one for 2020 was crystal clear: people who stepped up to help others in this difficult year. They are the bright lights of 2020.
Eleven articles in all, done by Day reporters and photojournalists, recount the response of people, through their jobs or volunteering, to the familiar litany of hardship: pandemic deaths, emergency calls, recuperation, hunger, job loss, evictions and no way to pay the rent; and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, the need to re-assert the pervasiveness of racism. The effects of pandemic and protest often overlapped.