MORNING SENTINEL • June 23, 2023
The Lake Wesserunsett Association says that in order to ensure water quality doesn't decline, it will be raising $30,000 for an emergency fund to purchase and conserve land around the lake as it comes on the market. Members of the nonprofit lake association say a need for a “rapid response” emergency fund to purchase land in the watershed became apparent last summer, when a 52-acre parcel containing 40 acres of wetland unexpectedly came on the market. The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture was able to come up with the $70,000 needed to purchase that land, and is in the process now of transferring ownership to the Somerset Woods Trustees conservation group.