Why Are All The Trees Being Cut Down?
June 19, 2008
A huge stump is all that’s left of an old tree that once stood tall in front of Epping Community Church.
Just down the road, Grace Lavoie has two stumps in front of her Main Street hair salon. More stumps sit on her neighbor’s front lawn.
Over the past few weeks, the landscape of the town has faced a dramatic transformation. Large trees that have lined streets for hundreds of years have been chopped down as Public Service of New Hampshire makes way for larger utility poles to carry higher-voltage lines.
But some insist PSNH has gone too far, saying the town doesn’t look like the Epping they once knew.
“The whole appearance of Main Street has been altered,” said Selectman Karen Sott, who questioned PSNH’s “trimming” and why there wasn’t better monitoring as the trees started falling.
Sott and other town officials have heard from several residents furious over the trees being lost along town roads, including Main, Water and Bartlett streets.
Full story from Jason Schreiber
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Although town meetings take place were information is shared, but many people don’t know the changes that are about to come into Epping… It’s going to get worse, not just the new stores and “contruction” in the past 5 years… But if you want this stop, you need to sttend or watch the town meetings… You can even watch from home!
But for those of you that can not… here’s the deal… they are building MORE, and planning on putting in MORE “homes” in the form of condos, complexes, whatever you want to call it. A nice way of saying that Epping is soon turning into slums… our nice community is not just expanding, but crime rates are up, and YOUR TAX MONEY is being wasted at these meetings… For instance, the time is spent discussing light fixutes that are “too bright” and “signs that do not have permits”… the sign talked about was smaller than a mailbox.
There are people that literally drive around, make a list of everything they don’t like, and discuss it. So, make sure your lights aren’t too bright, or that you haven’t upset one of the selectman so that the poor code enforcer can spend more time on things like enforcing SAFETY issues, not just looks.
For anyone having issues with the Town of Epping, Please email me, and tell me your story, I can’t promise I’ll respond, but I will take a look, and I would like to bring up REAL issues, not the fact that the new dealership in epping has their lights on too bright at night…. It’s their electric bill… not mine. And the people that live near it… Does it bother you? i appologize if it does, I am hearing from all my little “flies”.
So let me hear your thoughts, and help me to change it! Their ideas are good, but faced in the wrong direction.
Sorry my email is blutterfly@verizon.net