It will be moved off parking lot, town administrator says
Leigh Blander / Special to The Swampscott Reporter
The town has decided to remove a large industrial container parked on the Fisherman’s Beach parking lot by SUP East Coast Style, a stand-up paddleboard company running camps through the Swampscott Recreation Department this summer.
“It’s an industrial container sitting right near a historic building,” said Mary Ellen Fletcher, referring to the Swampscott Fish House. Fletcher lives nearby, is a former Harbor & Waterfront Advisory Committee member and serves as vice chair of the Swampscott Finance Committee.
She said she believes the storage container takes away from the beautiful appeal of the town’s seaside charm.
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The following Swampscott public meetings below have been posted on the town’s website.
As the town practices social distancing, some will stream on the municipal website as well as broadcast on Swampscott Government Access Channels: Comcast Channel 22 and Verizon Channel 41.
Almost all will be convened over the digital platform Zoom, to which residents and community members may need a unique identification number to gain access. That number can be found on the public meetings’ agendas.
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Expressing agreement with rail-trail column
I am writing to express my strong agreement with Brian Watson’s letter that was in the Swampscott Reporter’s July 15th issue. We are property owners whose land would be taken and leveled for this project. The issues that he raises are ones that we have been arguing for years and nobody seems to care. In the past five years we have lost four 100 foot plus trees that were over 100 years old. One missed our house by less than a foot. Before that we lost none. We have all seen the trees falling like matchsticks all over town.
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