1/11/2024
You may have heard about the Great Horned Owl at Lake Quannapowitt earlier this month. Here’s more info on how to enjoy “Owl Season” at Lake Q and how to keep wildlife safe. “January is owl season in Massachusetts,” according to Mass Audubon in a recent WBUR interview, with many of the birds courting and nesting this time of year....
11/30/2023
Congratulations to this year’s Gertrude Spaulding award winner, Laurel Perkins, who has been a member of FOLQ’s Col. Connelly Park Committee. In particular, Laurel’s incredibly hard work on the program to install memorial bricks around the Connelly Park Flagpole has made a lasting impression on our Lake and our organization. Thank you, Laurel! Learn more about the Bricks by the...
6/17/2023
In 2023, FOLQ invited Dominic Meringolo, Environmental Engineer for Solitude Lake Management, Inc., to our annual business meeting to present and discuss possible in-lake solutions being used to reduce persistent algae blooms and improve water quality in lakes and ponds. These solutions would complement and provide additional impact to the Town’s current efforts to limit nutrients and pollutants from entering...
11/14/2022
On Wednesday June 1, 2022, the Friends of Lake Quannapowitt Board of Directors welcomed members, guests and local and state politicians to their . It was held at Bear Hill Golf Club in Stoneham MA. and marked their first annual meeting in two years with in-person attendees. President Margaret Coppe welcomed all to a delightful cocktail hour and dinner before...
3/29/2021
Dear Friends and Supporters, On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Cabot, Cabot and Forbes filed a site plan and application for a mixed-use residential development at 200 Quannapowitt Parkway (the old American Mutual building) with the Zoning Board of Appeals. Included in that filing is a letter stating that amendments will soon be added that incorporate important elements for lake protection,...
2/23/2021
Dear Friends and Supporters, The Friends of Lake Quannapowitt, faced with a proposed large residential development at 200 Quannapowitt Parkway (old American Mutual building,) have engaged the public recently with a citizen petition, town wide signs and an initiative to sponsor zoning changes preventing or limiting the size of residential development intended for the November 2020 Town Meeting. We were...
