Brewster Conservation Trust

 Peter Johnson cuts chain to open the trail On July 12th, Trustees of the BCT joined three generations of the Somers family for our first open-air “closing.”  We celebrated BCT’s purchase of a half-acre along Lower Mill Pond, including the trail to Fishing Rock. The Somers family has owned this shoreline since 1944, including the big granite [...]

The wooden stakes are still there, their tips rotting in the ground. They show where the pondfront house was slated to be built eight years ago, perched on the side of a steep bank leading to Upper Mill Pond. Now, thanks to the BCT, the stakes can be pulled up and the 2.3 acres can [...]