The Five Minute Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to mgilbert@lowellsun.com.
The Five Minute Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to mgilbert@lowellsun.com.
About a quarter mile of forested shoreline along the Merrimack River will be protected from development and added to the Stillhouse Forest conservation area in Canterbury and Northfield.The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests raised.
The Francestown Land Trust has purchased a conservation easement for Abbottville Farm after three years of negotiations and fundraising.The easement, which finalized on Dec. 23, protects 40 acres of scenic agricultural fields and adjacent forest.
Sharon Akers hops gingerly from a patch of rocks to the mossy shore across the Scataquog Brook. Protected by sturdy black rubber boots nearly to his knees, Tom Jones takes a more direct route across.“See where the land takes that sharp turn up?”.