A multi-year awareness effort by town officials paid off in a 231-43 vote to adopt a groundwater ordinance.
Ossipee resident Leona Simon's opposition to the Effingham gas station proposal was based on personal experience.
Incumbent Jonathan Smith is out after one term.
Ossipee Lake's three communities will hold elections and town meetings this week.
High school student Stella Lunt of Ossipee is learning a lot from the Meena gas station case.
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