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.
Ossipee Selectmen don't like Green Mountain Conservation Group and don't think much of their planning survey either, even if the town's own conservation commission leads the effort. Issue may be proposed directly to voters at Town Meeting.
Kayakers on Broad Bay on Christmas Day, then cold temps and snow. Winter is finally settling in on the lake.
"No" is the Select Board's answer to a request to pay $6,000 toward a Green Mountain Conservation Group research study to give town planners data to help manage growth and protect the area's water supply. Chairman Rick Morgan says he will "never work with" GMCG, citing that group's support of DRED's decision to deny the town's request to build a public beach in environmentally sensitive state-owned Ossipee Lake Natural Area more than a decade ago.
Thanks to the State Dam Bureau and Ossipee Dam Authority, the lake level continues to be predictable and according to plan.
The New Hampshire Lakes Association plans to promote a bill that will require boaters to clean and drain their vessel and trailer before entering a state lake and again when leaving it. The group believes the law can help limit the spread of variable milfoil and keep other invasives like zebra mussels from finding their way to state waters.
"Tenders" will help keep milfoil fragments from flowing down the Ossipee River when professional divers remove an infestation in Berry Bay.
Reduction of enforcement cited as a potential element in this season's wave of trespassing and vandalism at Ossipee Lake's rare nature preserve.
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