In what may be a repeat of last year’s events, a series of significant late season rainstorms has increased the lake to a flood level when it should be at its lowest to accommodate winter ice.
The logic is inescapable: unless state funding is increased, the more that milfoil spreads in Ossipee Lake, the more that local communities will have to pay to control it.
Selectmen in Ossipee listened to a proposal to use divers to clear milfoil out of Ossipee Lake, but made no decisions about the matter at the board’s meeting Monday night.
A controversial agreement that prohibits owners in a recreational vehicle park from becoming residents may be in tatters when five seasonal residents exercised their right to vote Tuesday, after the the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office intervened.
Merrow has been working with the director of the N.H. Department of Parks and Recreation to lease a portion of the state land at Long Sands to have as a beach for the people of Ossipee.
It's a dirty job to root out milfoil at Danforth Pond, but somebody has to do it.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will now be sifting through the information it has received and determining whether or not to issue a permit.
Sen. Joe Kenney defended his voting record last week, a record his Democratic challenger claims is twice-scarred by his support of a bill that gutted Tamworth's control over a proposed racetrack and one that caused health insurance premiums to spike for some people.
Ultimately the Conservancy will use carefully prescribed burns in this pine barrens ecosystem that has depended upon fire for its maintenance and regeneration for thousands of years.
Professional divers have been hired to hand-pull milfoil from Danforth Brook to upper Danforth Pond, and volunteers are needed to work from boats to assist them.
The town of Freedom, working with Ossipee Lake Alliance, has hired a crew of divers to come in and clean out the variable milfoil from the Freedom section of Ossipee Lake.
Ossipee Lake Alliance has asked the United States Army Corps. of Engineers (ACoE) to determine whether noise and lights from the proposed racetrack on Mount Whittier will adversely affect Ossipee Lake property owners.
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