CONCORD After 18 years with the group, OARS Executive Director Alison Field-Juma announced Aug. 28 that she will retire next year from the watershed organization that she helped to expand.
Conservation officials are seeking public input for a proposed project to remove the Talbot Mills Dam, which has existed in multiple forms in the Billerica stretch of the Concord River for more than 300 years.
Town officials and a local conservation group disagree on how to proceed with the Talbot Mills Dam on the Concord River with Curran suggesting the dam needs to remain in place while the Organization for the Assabet River says it must be removed.