Conway Daily Sun

eeping the pressure on state and local officials to reject plans for a public beach on Ossipee Lake, a lakeside homeowners' group wrote the state's top development official that a beach at Long Sands is “not in the best interest of the lake or the people of the state.”

Selectman Jim Breslin violated the privacy rights of Totem Pole Park residents by reading a list of names at a public meeting of people he says registered their cars at town hall in violation of an agreement between the town and campground, charges the campground's lawyer.

If selectmen can iron out a contract with The Nature Conservancy this week, the board could jump on the group’s $2,500 bid to survey rare plants at the proposed site of an Ossipee Lake public beach.

After an announcement of an early drawdown this year reportedly caused panic among some boaters, state and local officials will sit down and talk about how best to lower Ossipee Lake in the future.

Ossipee has the potential to be a premier snowmobiling destination, but it needs more trails and volunteers, says a local man who hopes to lay 15 miles of new trail from Ossipee Lake to Effingham.