The Save Ocean Beach group have done many wonderful things for the beach. It's sad for the osprey and the people that enjoy the Ocean Beach Osprey if this group is allowed to take down the Osprey nesting tower. The Save Ocean Beach group would like to take the Osprey tower down and try to relocate it for a clock tower on the boardwalk.We don't think it's worth the risk of loosing the osprey forever. The Osprey have come back to this same nesting site for decades. Other birds also nest within the osprey nest!Does anyone think it would be a great idea to raise funds to install a web-cam to watch the Ocean Beach Ospey? Many groups have done this. Look up Osprey web cams on the web-site! Many groups celebrate the return of the ospry every March!We would support Save Ocean Beach for a new clock tower. We ask they please reconsider and leave the osprey tower alone. Some of the Save Ocean Beach group members will be seeking permission to take the osprey tower down on 9/4/2012 at an Education, Parks & Recreation Committee meeting between 5-7, prior to the City Council meeting.Please write or show up to show your support for the osprey..Please leave the osprey tower alone!
Save the Ocean Beach Osprey tower
Save our Osprey. Save Ocean Beach group is seeking to take the osprey tower down to convert it into a clock tower.Meeting 9/4/2012 at the Parks & Rec.meeting between 5-7.
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Scotty B June 11, 2013 at 07:15 pm
You facts are correct Kathleen,
Since Chief Ackley was promoted in June 2009 - Close to 40…Read More Officers have left the department!
13 retired
22 went to other police departments
3 resigned or were terminated
Survey says...!
Instead asking about the nice artwork, lets ask why they are leaving...?!
Rick Lushay June 12, 2013 at 08:07 am
Scotty B. If you know or even speak to any police officers or any NLPD employees you would know the…Read More reason why the officers are leaving. The police administration is terrible, no leadership at the top and a city administration and four city councilors driven to gut and destroy the police department. These well educated and ambitious young officers know that there is no career opportunity here in the Whaling City so they are doing what is best for themselves. You would do the same.
Kathleen Mitchell June 12, 2013 at 06:02 pm
If anyone bothered to read the mayor's response above, the part that I could figure out and really…Read More concerned me was "The administration has also begun the process of using State LOCIP funds (at no cost to New London taxpayers) to install better lighting and security cameras throughout our City this year."
I do check out things before I write about them and I checked out his claim regarding the use of LoCIP (Local Capital Improvement Program)
No request has been made to the city council, as yet, for LoCIP funds for use as stated by the mayor.
I did think a headline in The Day today was interesting "UPDATED: NL cops use video surveillance, GPS coordinates to capture shooting suspect" and couldn't help but wonder if the information provided to the reporters was to support the mayor's claim that our city is safe regardless of the number of police on duty.
as for the flighty Ospreys, never fear, they will handily relocate to the new location, as long as they feel safe from the hordes of noisy summer boardwalk and beach people. They love the seclusion the existing tower offers them WAY OUT IN THE LOT. How many Osprey nests have been located, say in the dense city areas, anywhere in any city??? ZERO! They need that 'exclusion zone' so to speak, its part of their instinctive measure to keep young chicks alive! Does anyone remember an osprey nest on the OLD clock tower??? he he he! I sure don't, at least for the last 60 years! A webcam is a nice idea, with a good link for the Magnet and the Technology High School to use for their science and nature classes. Incorporate it into the unlimited BOE budget, (a drop in their bucket.) Speaking of drops, the ospreys will 'drop stuff' below the nest, so be forewarned!
pages have disappeared from the city coffers. Clark of all people you know how much of NL's history has disappeared on a daily basis.
or those 'cast in place' curbs that slide out of place when the snow plow comes along. i won't point fingers, BUT, whenever the maintenance crews showed up to fix stuff, it often just vanished! I'm wondering if that scrap yard (Howard St,>> Trumbull/Nameag St>>Essex CT) would have any idea. we can thank those millions of truly great craftsmen from Europe that immigrated (1800's) with their devotion to detail, art, hard work and skill for what we once had.