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The Webster select board has no interest in trying to recover the land illegally sold to a former town treasurer in 2019.Former town treasurer Bruce Johnson bought two 1.5 acre parcels next to his Walker Pond property in 2019, in a deal approved by...
Walker Pond land sold to town for conservation "> MacNeill Matthews and her father, Paul Matthews, go fishing on Walker Pond in this photo from “years ago” taken from the cover the Boscawen-Penacook Water Precinct annual report. Courtesy Boscawen-Penacook Water Precinct Published: 7/1/2021 4:57:10 PM The Boscawen side of Walker Pond, a former source of drinking water owned by the local water district, has been preserved from development. What happens on the Webster side of the pond remains to be seen. The land around the 200-acre pond has been owned for decades by the Penacook-Boscawen ...
Bagaduce River-wide fishways project hits new milestone BROOKSVILLE—On a recent spring day, Mike Thalhauser peered down into the recently restored alewife run at Walker Pond to see if any of the anadromous fish had completed the journey from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the local freshwater pond. To the disappointment of the lurking gulls, there were none, but this spring, thousands of alewives will likely make the final sprint along the spruced–up run for the first time in order to get to the pond to spawn. It’s something that only a few years ago wasn’...
Bagaduce River watershed fishways project hits new milestone BROOKSVILLE — On a recent spring day, Mike Thalhauser peered down into the recently restored alewife run at Walker Pond to see if any of the anadromous fish had completed the journey from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the local freshwater pond. To the disappointment of the lurking gulls, there were none, but this spring, thousands of alewives will likely make the final sprint along the spruced-up run for the first time in order to get to the pond to spawn. It’s something that only a few years ago wasn’t as easy a ta...
Find out which articles passed and which drew discussion at Needham's May 2021 Town Meeting.