Alliance Report

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.

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.

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.

As program coordinator, D’Andrea will work with individual volunteers, lake associations, and children’s camps to establish volunteer efforts across the lake system to search for and report on invasive exotic species such as variable milfoil.