A multi-year awareness effort by town officials paid off in a 231-43 vote to adopt a groundwater ordinance.
Ossipee resident Leona Simon's opposition to the Effingham gas station proposal was based on personal experience.
Incumbent Jonathan Smith is out after one term.
Ossipee Lake's three communities will hold elections and town meetings this week.
High school student Stella Lunt of Ossipee is learning a lot from the Meena gas station case.
An Effingham native, and a familiar presence in local volunteer organizations.
Whether Effingham's Planning Board will accept the material is unclear, given its September cut-off date and a court-ordered stay of the proceedings.
Effingham's Planning Board will have new leadership when it resumes consideration of the controversial gas station plan.
The ruling comes as officials in neighboring towns say they want the additional environmental assurances a Special Use Permit would require.
The ZBA on February 1 will continue deliberating whether a Planning Board decision in the Meena case violated the Zoning Ordinance.
An Effingham Planning Board decision inequitably favors a Conway developer and deprives the board and the community of required environmental information.
January 11th it is, for the current winter season.
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