The Bare Cove Park Committee meets on the second Monday of each month at the Town Hall, except when we meet in the park during summer months.  Visitors are always welcome, and dates and times are always posted at the Town Hall.  Toe Town's website also contains information about the park, including our new dog etiquette page.

Volunteer committee member Frank Sheltry and Ranger Scott McMillan continue to do a fine job in keeping the park in an excellent condition for year round use.  In addition to summer mowing of the roadsides and fields and the winter snowplowing, they do much other work to make the Park an enjoyable place to visit.  They continue to remove invasive plants, trim back roads and trails and maintain vistas for all to enjoy.

The dog waste bag program continues, but at great expense.  The program has been a big help in keeping the park's trails cleaner.  The triangle garden near the Fort Hill Street entrance has been maintained under committee member Barbara Nicosia's direction.  Both of these projects are supported by donations.  A gift account has been established and tax deductible donations may be made to the Friends of Bare Cove Park and sent to the Selectmen's Office at Town Hall.

Issues with the land swap deal between the Hastings Companies and the Town that was voted in at the 2005 Town Meeting occupied much of the Committee's time.  Meetings about plantings, screening and vista pruning, and other issues, plus meetings with the Conservation Commission about enforcement orders were all very time consuming.  The new athletic fields on Beal Street, a new and enlarged parking area and a new entrance for the Park will benefit all.

Another issue that took much of the Committee's time was the use of the Community Preservation Committee funds that were approved at the 2006 and 2007 Town Meetings.  The demolition and removal of several concrete foundations scattered throughout the park was started.  An unforeseen problem of asbestos contamination was found which led to a delay, but it is being overcome. Other projects from the same funds were the redesign and improvement to the Fort Hill Street entrance, the triangle garden improvements and re-landscaping around the green dock building on the river will add benches and secure the old bollards and bits we saved from the old pier.