The boat speed limit on Lake Winnipesaukee doesn't apply to Ossipee Lake, but what's being learned from the speed limit law is important for all of the state's large lakes.
Poll shows 69 percent of respondents want limits and oppose the bill to increase the daytime limit to 55 mph in the "broads," a proposal, backed by an anti-speed limit group, that recently passed out of the Senate on a 13-11 vote and is awaiting a vote in the House.
Ossipee Lake is one of the area's bodies of water where landlocked salmon can be caught and keep between now and the end of September.
Most of the snow is gone but the ice continues to cover the lake and bays.
New ground water protection ordinances pass in Freedom, Madison and Effingham.
In an article, State Representative Mark McConkey discusses why he does not support the proposed groundwater protection ordinances as currently written.
There is a giant reserve of drinking water under six towns in Carroll County. This March, those towns are proposing ordinances to keep it clean.
An Ossipee resident argues that the ordinances to be voted on at Town Meeting are essential and are pro-business. "Clean water, along with great scenery, is crucial to attracting new residents and new businesses to the Lakes Region."
Voters on March 8 should approve their town's Aquifer protection ordinance "to create a web of consistent safeguards for our drinking water supply across the entire watershed."
Carroll County Independent editorial urges support at Town Meeting for a warrant article that "is vital to the literal health" of the towns situated over the Ossipee Aquifer.
Select Board Chairman Les Babb says the proposal is meant to address the town's top two liability concerns.
Freedom Selectmen will apply for state funding to replace the deteriorating span on Ossipee Lake Road.
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