As debate over the proposal to create a new town beach on Ossipee Lake continues, members of Ossipee Lake Alliance and others have raised the question of whether the people of Ossipee need another town beach.
Angry waters are back under the Route 153 bridge in Freedom, all because of heavy rain Friday night, Saturday and Sunday morning.
David Smith, executive director of Ossipee Lake Alliance, has written a letter to Sean O'Kane, commissioner of the N.H. Department of Resources and Economic Development, questioning the town's need for another beach on Ossipee Lake, particularly one that will use state land at Long Sands.
Meeting for the first time since the last public hearing in Gilford, the Recreation, Resource and Development Committee for the state’s House of Representatives held a work session on Tuesday, September 27.
President of the Totem Pole Park Association, Paul Corbin, asked the board of selectmen to work together with the association.
In your September 8th issue Harry Merrow is correct to highlight the ongoing destruction of Ossipee Lake Natural Area by boaters, but wrong to point at others for not doing something about it.
As of today the drawdown of Ossipee Lake is almost complete.
Responding to what he said were misleading statements in a news release by the Ossipee Lake Alliance, Selectman Harry Merrow on Monday said three of four town beaches are too small, and the town's one larger beach gets plenty of use.
Freedom’s Planning Board will not try to revoke a year-old agreement with Totem Pole Park that allows campers to stay 11 months on the condition that two alleged violators of the agreement come into compliance by properly registering their motor vehicles.
eeping the pressure on state and local officials to reject plans for a public beach on Ossipee Lake, a lakeside homeowners' group wrote the state's top development official that a beach at Long Sands is “not in the best interest of the lake or the people of the state.”
Selectman Harry Merrow questions how people can see the proposed town beach on Ossipee Lake as something that will disturb or threaten natural and historic resources, since the beach has been a hub of activity on the lake each summer for years.
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