Sud­bury Val­ley Trustees (SVT), Meta­comet Land Trust (MLT) and the Town of Upton are col­lab­o­rat­ing to pur­chase the 66-acre Kel­ly Prop­er­ty and add it to the Con­ser­va­tion Area so that the com­mu­ni­ty can always access the entire trail network.

Part of the trail net­work at Pep­per­corn Hill in Upton cross­es pri­vate­ly owned prop­er­ty (the ‘Kel­ly Prop­er­ty’), that is not present­ly a part of the Con­ser­va­tion Area. These por­tions of the trails—which include the scenic over­look with a spec­tac­u­lar view to the west—could be lost for­ev­er if a new own­er restrict­ed pub­lic access.

Please help save the trails! For updates and to learn how you can help: www.svtweb.org/kelly

Mask-up with your friends and fam­i­ly and join us for the annu­al spring lake cleanup!
Sat­ur­day, March 20th — 9am — 12pm
Pick­up your trash­bags and hand san­i­tiz­er at Sandy Beach. 

We will have a table set up start­ing at 9am in the beach park­ing lot with a map of the lake. We will assign indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies areas to clean up so we can hit as many places around the lake as pos­si­ble. We are hop­ing to take advan­tage of the low water lev­el to get areas around the shore­line!  

We ask peo­ple to please keep a safe dis­tance from oth­ers and wear their masks at all times.

Please send us an email if you have any ques­tions or concerns.

Mass­a­chu­setts Envi­ron­men­tal Police are offer­ing an alter­na­tive to their in-per­son boat­ing safe­ty class­es which is a hybrid mod­el with an online edu­ca­tion­al com­po­nent fol­lowed by an in-per­son exam. Find out more or reg­is­ter here.

Saturday’s weath­er is look­ing a lit­tle iffy for our Lake Clean-up. But with the water so low we should take advan­tage of being able to access the shoreline!! 

If it’s more con­ve­nient and/or you feel more com­fort­able, please feel free to clean up in your area pri­or to Sat­ur­day and then drop off the trash you col­lect­ed at Sandy Beach between 9 and 12 on Saturday.

Last evening, the Hop­kin­ton Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion vot­ed to grant exemp­tions this year to cer­tain aspects of the Order of Con­di­tions for the extend­ed draw­down of Lake Maspenock.  This action will allow the Hop­kin­ton Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works to con­duct the deep draw­down this win­ter in an attempt to con­trol the exces­sive aquat­ic veg­e­ta­tion in the lake.

This is very good news and the LMPA would like to thank the DPW and Con­Com for work­ing togeth­er in order to achieve this out­come. Now we must hope for a good, deep freeze while the water is low in order to impact the weed beds.

Please be aware that this extend­ed draw­down may low­er the lake as much as 8′ this win­ter.

Best Regards,
The Offi­cers and Exec­u­tive Board of the LMPA

The DPW has informed us that the win­ter draw­down will com­mence Octo­ber 1. Please plan accord­ing­ly.

Thank you,
The LMPA Exec­u­tive Board