Year-long lobbying effort results in a $2 increase in boat registration fees to help pay for the growing cost of controlling milfoil in state waters.
In addition to the challenges of finding money to treat his lake's milfoil infestations, Association president Michael Allard says the bureaucracy of milfoil control is "insane."
Kayaker discovers the lake's 11th infestation in a cove between Barry Bay and Leavitt Bay. Freedom's Aquatic Invasive Species Committee quickly arranges for its removal as part of the summer's schedule of milfoil control.
Popular author and speaker Ben Kilham will appear at Freedom Town Hall on Monday, August 4th, at 7 p.m. Kilham is co-author of the book "Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild," which is considered a classic of its type. Signed copies of this and his new book, "Out on a Limb," will be available for purchase at this family-friendly event.
It's the unofficial "fourth source" of information for biographers--site visits to view the places where events played out. For poet E.E. Cummings biographer Susan Cheever, that meant a visit to Center Ossipee, to find the site where Cummings' father was killed in a car-train accident in 1926.
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