Citing apparent misstatements by the engineering firm advising the owners of Westward Shores in their expansion proposal, a Carroll County Independent editorial cautions local boards against accepting facts without verifying them.
Questionable claims by SFC Engineering Partnership in regard to the campground's ZBA special exemption application are being investigated after several organizations that SFC said they had contacted, and had support from, have denied such contact occurred. Some will be demanding a retraction from SFC, a correction to the meeting minutes, and possibly a revocation of the special exception that the ZBA granted.
The results of a May meeting will signal whether DRED can keep its coalition of state and local stakeholders working together as state funds dwindle and trespassing and vandalism increase at Ossipee Lake Natural Area.
Select Board says it found out about the work schedule second-hand and is concerned boaters will be inconvenienced at a busy tine of year.
Signs of spring: black flies. Signs of summer: the lake level has stabilized.
In contrast, last year the dam was closed on May 8th.
Ossipee's simmering feud over a proposed land planning study shows no sign of abating. Selectman Rick Morgan has called for a meeting to determine whether the town's Conservation Commission has the legal right to find a new source of funding for the study. Citing a similar study in Freedom, Morgan says "ultimately it [was] all about the concern over phosphorous levels in Lake Ossipee," adding that since Ossipee is in the hills and "all its run-off ends up in the lake," the same kind of study in Ossipee could result in "detrimental restrictions" on land use. Citing the importance of water quality in the lake, Conservation Commission chair Ron Adams reminds Morgan that "Fifty-two percent of the town's taxes are raised from lakeshore properties."
The House Resources Committee will convene a hearing on April 5 to consider tacking the language of HB-1517 -- which would cut dock property line setbacks from 20 feet to 10 feet -- to an unrelated bill to name a cove in Lake Winnipesaukee. HB-1517 is sponsored by State Representative McConkey and State Senator Bradley, who represent the Ossipee Lake area.
It's no April Fool's joke. The ice is gone.
Dividing a home among siblings takes planning and cooperation. Despite parents' best intentions to assure future generations of family togetherness, an inherited home often triggers lifetime grudges and, at worst, lawsuits. "You never really know someone until you share an inheritance with them," says one legal expert.
This has been an easy winter in N.H. but the big lake and Broad Bay remain ice covered. There are still two more days to enter the Ossipee Ice-Out Contest.
A Michigan-based operator of family campgrounds plans to invest "millions" to improve and expand the business, a fixture on the lake since the 1940s.
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