Survey Gives Ossipee Candidates Opportunity to Speak About Lake IssuesFebruary 6, 2005|Alliance Staff|Alliance Report|0 CommentsOssipee Lake Alliance has distributed a survey that will give candidates running for Ossipee Selectman the opportunity to make their opinions known about important lake issues they are likely to face if elected.
Plan to Ban Rafting On Lakes DiscussedFebruary 3, 2005|Norma Love|News|0 CommentsThe popular summer pastime of “rafting” - boating’s equivalent of a tailgate party - on the state’s lakes would be banned by a bill before the state Senate. Rafting is when boats congregate on the water, sometimes involving as many as 150 boats.
Ossipee Selectmen Approve Leavitt Bay Milfoil RemovalFebruary 3, 2005|Alliance Staff|Alliance Report|0 CommentsOssipee’s Selectmen have agreed to accept the State’s offer to split the cost of a program in which invasive variable milfoil will be hand-pulled from Leavitt Bay and Phillips Brook by professional divers this spring.
Hearings Scheduled on Repeal of Law Excluding CMI from OrdinanceFebruary 3, 2005|Nate Giarnese|Conway Daily Sun|0 CommentsTwo public hearings are expected to be jammed on a House bill that would repeal the now infamous SB 458, the state law that allowed developers of a proposed driving track to skirt a local ordinance which would have restricted its operation.
State Poised to Plunge Into Ossipee Lake Milfoil FightJanuary 29, 2005|Nate Giarnese|Conway Daily Sun|0 CommentsN.H. Department of Environmental Services has plunged in on a pilot plan to hand-pick invasive milfoil in Leavitt Bay, according to a group of Ossipee lake property owners and environmentalists.