Park Commission Votes To Back Baseball Road Appeal

Park Commission · Meeting of July 13, 2026

GROTON — The Groton Park Commission voted to join the town's baseball league in seeking a Conservation Commission stay on a turtle-protected access road closure. Chair Mary A. Jennings and CPC Representative John "Jack" Petropoulos will represent the five-member board at Tuesday's Conservation Commission hearing, after Petropoulos reported a volunteer turtle-monitoring effort was "a miserable failure," with zero turtles spotted and the police chief, a local advocate, and even baseball itself declining to help monitor. Members also amended the motion to report back in three weeks on a temporary connecting road between two parking lots.

Separately, the commission reviewed four cost options for a field improvement project, from $1.6 million to $4.1 million, after voters rejected a $4.8 million version this spring, and closed the fiscal year with $2,977 remaining after DPW and dumpster encumbrances.

In the full story:

• CPA Field Project: Value Engineering and Cost Options
• Access Road Closure and the Turtle Monitoring Experiment
• The Vote: Park Commission Aligns With Baseball League
• Year-End Budget and Capital Spending
• New Business: Goals, DPW Agreement, Land Acquisition
• Minutes and Scheduling
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,324 words

Source: the Park Commission meeting of July 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.