The Freedom planning board on August 19th reluctantly approved an amendment to a 1988 agreement with Totem Pole Park that would extend overnight camping at the condominium campground from 6 to 11 months.
The Freedom planning board on August 19th reluctantly approved an amendment to a 1988 agreement with Totem Pole Park that would extend overnight camping at the condominium campground from 6 to 11 months.
Town Hall was packed to capacity and the crowd was largely opposed, but on Thursday night, Freedom’s Planning Board voted 5 to 0, with one abstention, to allow Totem Pole Park campground on Ossipee Lake to be open for all but 30 days of the year.
A group of Freedom residents has joined forces to oppose the application of Totem Pole Park campground to expand its months of operation from 6 to 11.
When Totem Pole Park Campground was granted condominium subdivision approval in 1987, it was with the agreement that the park would remain a non-residential campground, open May 1 to October 15 – and for recreational use only.
An early-morning fire at Camp Cody on Ossipee Lake Monday demolished a multiple-use building that had been used as a wood shop over the summer and set up as a chapel for an incoming church group. Nobody was hurt in the blaze.