Lobbying by opponents of the planned racetrack has apparently paid off and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to hold a public hearing on the 251 acre motorsports park proposed to be built on the north bank of Mount Whittier.
Maine divers may replace herbicides as the best tool to root out milfoil, the fast-growing underwater plant that threatens Ossipee Lake.
When June D’Andrea goes down to the dock at her home on Ossipee Lake’s Leavitt Bay, she pauses before she gets into her boat to scoop up handfuls of milfoil that dot the shore, hoping to snag a few of the weeds before they can take root.
The state has decided to allow a Massachusetts couple to continue to build a controversially tall house on Lake Winnipesaukee, even though its height violates shoreline protection laws.
The Freedom planning board on August 19th reluctantly approved an amendment to a 1988 agreement with Totem Pole Park that would extend overnight camping at the condominium campground from 6 to 11 months.
Town Hall was packed to capacity and the crowd was largely opposed, but on Thursday night, Freedom’s Planning Board voted 5 to 0, with one abstention, to allow Totem Pole Park campground on Ossipee Lake to be open for all but 30 days of the year.
A group of Freedom residents has joined forces to oppose the application of Totem Pole Park campground to expand its months of operation from 6 to 11.
When Totem Pole Park Campground was granted condominium subdivision approval in 1987, it was with the agreement that the park would remain a non-residential campground, open May 1 to October 15 - and for recreational use only.
An early-morning fire at Camp Cody on Ossipee Lake Monday demolished a multiple-use building that had been used as a wood shop over the summer and set up as a chapel for an incoming church group. Nobody was hurt in the blaze.
July’s viewing statistics are in line with the month-to-month growth that the website has experienced this year, according to Alliance vice president and co-director Susan Marks.
Ossipee Selectmen have decided to take no action regarding a notice from the Tamworth Planning Board about an upcoming public hearing on Club Motorsports’ wetlands application with the town.
In the mid-1800s, Freedom’s Shawtown district was a vibrant and growing area of families and farms. By the turn of the century, however, it had vanished.
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