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Thursday, May 10, 2012
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Man Charged in Beagle Cruelty Case
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Man Charged in Beagle Cruelty Case
Police confirm John Kalamaras was arrested this week for numerous counts of animal cruelty....
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Salem NH Hopes To Start Work Soon On Rail Trail
Bicycle, Pedestrian Path Will Be Part Of 80-Mile Trail
SALEM, N.H. -- Work is expected to start soon to clear the way for a bicycle and pedestrian trail along a former railroad track in southern New Hampshire.
The work in Salem will be part of an 80-mile rail trail from Lawrence, Mass., to Lebanon, N.H.
The Eagle-Tribune reported that the town and New Hampshire Department of Transportation still need to negotiate agreements for use of the former Boston & Maine Railroad tracks.
Salem selectmen voted Monday to finalize the details with the state.
The rail trail, proposed more than a decade ago, extends 5.1 miles through Salem. The trail passes through Windham, Derry and Londonderry.
Source: http://www.wmur.com/news/31036066/detail.html#ixzz1uTXIOG5y
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Salem rail trail work could finally start soon
By Doug Ireland
SALEM — There's hope at the end of the trail for a local project that's been years in the making.
Work is expected to begin soon to clear the way for Salem's portion of a bicycle and pedestrian trail that would someday extend about 80 miles from Lawrence to Lebanon.
But first, the town and state Department of Transportation need to negotiate agreements for use of the former Boston & Maine Railroad tracks.
Salem selectmen voted unanimously Monday to authorize Town Manager Keith Hickey to finalize the details with the state.
The rail trail, proposed more than a decade ago, extends 5.1 miles through Salem. The trail passes through Windham, Derry and Londonderry as well.
The Nevada-based Iron Horse Preservation Society has offered to remove part of the old track and would start when given the word, Salem community development director William Scott said.
The nonprofit organization of train enthusiasts volunteers its services, funding the work through the sale of old tracks and equipment for the preservation of historic railroads.
The group has been working on the rail trail in Methuen.
But negotiating the necessary agreements could take a while, according to David Topham of the Salem Bike-Ped Corridor Committee.
Approval is needed from the DOT, the attorney general's office and the Executive Council, he said.
Topham is optimistic, but the big question that remains is when work would begin.
"We don't feel there is any major obstacle at all," he said. "It just takes a while to push the paperwork through."
Windham and Derry are mostly done with their portions of the trail, he said. Scott said he will meet with Windham officials in the next week.
Londonderry is early in the process. The project will be funded through a $1.27 million federal transportation grant requiring a 20 percent local match. Salem must raise roughly $220,000 through private sources, Topham said.
"The town is basically looking for the funds to come up with the match money," he said. "The money is not coming from the taxpayers."
Linda Harvey, also a member of the Salem Bike-Ped Corridor Committee, has been pushing for the project since 1999. She said she will be glad when work finally begins.
"I will be relieved to see something happening," Harvey said.
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Source: http://www.eagletribune.com/newhampshire/x241727125/Salem-rail-trail-work-could-finally-start-soon
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Striped bass make their return to Plum Island
By David RogersStaff writer
NEWBURYPORT — It wasn't exactly as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but those angling for striped bass Sunday were in luck, as schools of the immensely popular game fish were spotted along the shorelines over the weekend.
Stripers were so plentiful Sunday that, according to Surfland Bait and Tackle's Kay Moulton, they were pushing bait fish toward the beaches.
Unfortunately, those hoping to catch a little of that action yesterday weren't as fortunate. For some reason, the stripers were far and few in between, Moulton said.
"I'm afraid we told everybody, 'You should have been here yesterday,'" she said.
Regardless, the sight of so many bass over the weekend leaves little doubt that the striper season has returned to the Greater Newburyport area, more than a week earlier than normal.
On Sunday, fishermen crowded beaches along Plum Island, and others launched their small craft in the Merrimack River from a mobbed Cashman Park.
"It's all starting to happen: more boats, more people," Newburyport harbormaster Paul Hogg said yesterday.
Stripers are one of the most popular game fish in the region, drawing hundreds of fishermen to the area's most popular fishing spots: the mouth of the Merrimack River, Plum Island Beach, Deer Island in Amesbury and Joppa Flats in Newburyport. They can grow to almost 5 feet long, and their meat is highly prized by fish lovers.
Moulton and Hogg agreed that the striped bass season is starting a little early this season. Typically, the fish swim up the Atlantic coastline from their spawning grounds in Chesapeake Bay, near Maryland and Virginia, and into the region by mid-May.
Both believe that warmer water temperatures are a main reason for the relatively early start to the season. Such an assumption was likely aided by the earlier than usual arrival of herring, the popular bait fish for stripers. The herring, called alewives, were spotted in late March by the thousands in the Parker River in Newbury, weeks earlier than expected. In late March, the temperature reached an abnormal high of around 80.
On Sunday, the bait of choice was sea worms, which Moulton said were the hottest item that day.
"Sea worms really work well in the beginning of the year," he said.
Already, a half-dozen fishermen have had their photos taken with their bass and affixed to a wall display inside Moulton's Plum Island store. According to the state's recreational saltwater fishing regulations, striped bass can be kept only if they are 28 inches or longer. The biggest striper on Moulton's bulletin board as of yesterday was a 15-pound, 4-ounce fish caught by Andy Kelley on May 3.
Richard Hogg of Crossroads Bait and Tackle in Salisbury said he heard reports of a 47-incher caught off Salisbury Beach and multiple 30-inch-plus stripers caught off Cashman Park.
"The season has been pretty good for the last couple of weeks," Hogg, father of Paul Hogg, said.
Both Richard and Paul Hogg said stripers have been traveling far inland, having been caught at the Great Stone Dam in Lawrence.
"They're following the bait," Richard Hogg said.
But Richard Hogg said that if weather reports of days of rain for the region come true, it could seriously curtail the number of stripers caught as freshwater runoff enters the saltwater sections of the river.
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