No bidders met the reserve price this month for Donald Lee’s shorefront property, which the state ordered the Sheriff to sell after the Massachusetts resident repeatedly failed to comply with a court order to pay for the environmental damage he caused to Bradford Cove. A second auction date will be set, but in the interim the Ossipee Bluffs Association will have to cover the $500,00 to $600,000 remediation cost.
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Ossipee ZBA Dismisses Appeal of Westward Shores Expansion
At its regular Tuesday night meeting, the ZBA voted that State Superior Court is the proper body to review claims that Ossipee’s Planning Board violated town zoning when it granted conditional approval for the campground to double in size. The Town of Freedom and Effingham Conservation Commission had filed the appeal.
“The Ghost of Ossipee Lake” Case Marks a Centennial
Was it murder or an accident? Traveling salesman Frederick Small said he was out of town when his Ossipee Lake home burned to the ground in September, 1916, killing his wife, Florence. Not so, said authorities, whose prosecution of Small kept New England in suspense for months. The definitive book about the Small case has now been reissued.
Former Lake Official Slams “The Hopeless Ossipee Planning Board”
In a letter to the Carroll County Independent, the co-founder and former president of the Long Sands Association property owners group questions why the Ossipee Planning Board would deny the Town of Freedom’s request for more time to present its concerns about the proposed expansion of Westward Shores Campground.
Effingham Conservation Commission Joins Freedom in Westward Shores Appeal
Commission cites potential violations of Ossipee’s zoning laws in regard to the development on the floodplain, including septic system construction.