Carroll County Independent

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.

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.

Ossipee Lake Alliance is looking for a few good sets of eyes to keep an eye out for variable milfoil and other exotic plant species that could take hold in the lake and spread around its shoreline.

Comments at the latest public hearing on the proposed motorsports country club to be built on Mt. Whittier spanned a range from technical to emotional, as those at the hearing asked state officials to consider everything from locations of wetlands to the quality of groundwater to the view from Tamworth Village.

This year's Watershed Weekend brought its focus down to the small scale to look at what bugs can tell us about the Ossipee Watershed.