Weston city annual meeting concluded on Wednesday, 9 may at the Weston HIGH SCHOOL with the approval of a number of articles related to capital raising and preservation efforts of the community, and discussions are long and impassioned about article 25, the right to return funds a dam on Hobbs Pond.
In the end, the article passed by count stand of 133-85, but not before advocates on both sides of the issue–whether to build a spillway 50-foot to replace the dam breaks in March 2010, or to remove the dam and allow allow recovery-had a chance to present their views.
The article is a member of the Weston present Conservation Commission Brian Donahue, who told the audience that while the second option it deemed “ecologically sound and accep” by the Commission, the majority of the recommendations of the General Assembly on the issue of the most recent is to build a spillway and preserving the 50-foot pool. Donahue explained that article 26-to remove the dams is mutually exclusive with 25 articles, in if the article passes, articles 26 25 will soon be removed from consideration.
In the discussion that followed, in which citizens lined up to say, points made range from those of the cost difference in projects for the perceived moral obligation on the part of the Weston swimming to preserve forever.
Charlie Hunt, whose family, along with the family of Dumaine, built the pond in the 1950s, reiterated comments he made in March and April the Conservation Commission public hearings suggest that rendering shown streambed future that “highly romanticized” and that the more likely the area will be “what it was 50 years ago-moving slow, a little odor, mosquito-ridden swamp often.”