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The Pi-Day snow storm (3/14) led to the rescheduling of town ballot voting in a number of area towns, including Hopkinton where I live. This provides extra days to encourage Hopkinton voters to vote for Sabrina Dunlap for select board. Sabrina has...
2 hrs ago EXETER â On May 4, the Southeast Land Trust of NH (SELT) completed a conservation easement on Clarke Farm, a 300-acre, grass-based livestock operation that straddles the towns of Newmarket and Epping. Jack and Linda Clarke originally purchased the property in 1977. The farm raises cattle and sheep on pasture, selling their meats into the local food market. A 175-acre portion of the property will be secured with an Agricultural Land Easement (ALE), ensuring that the land will be preserved for agricultural use forever. Another 33 acres of forested wetlands on the property will al...
Portsmouth Herald EXETER – The Southeast Land Trust of NH recently completed a conservation easement on Clarke Farm, a 300-acre, grass-based livestock operation that straddles the towns of Newmarket and Epping. Jack and Linda Clarke originally purchased the property in 1977. The farm raises cattle and sheep on pasture, selling their meats into the local food market. A 175-acre portion of the property will be secured with an Agricultural Land Easement (ALE), ensuring that the land will be preserved for agricultural use forever. Another 33 acres of forested wetlands on the property will a...
Hopkinton purchase of 5.7 acres will preserve Contoocook River shoreline The land that the Chesley family sold to the Hopkinton Conservation Commission in Contoocook on Tuesday, January 19, 2020. MELISSA CURRAN—Monitor staff A thousand feet of Contoocook River shoreline has been bought by the town of Hopkinton for continued recreation and agriculture but not development; the 5.7-acre site across the river from Bohanan Farm, with 1,100 feet of river shoreline. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff Shoreline across the river from Bohanan Farm has been bought by Hopkinton for recreation and agricultu...