Monthly Archives: March 2007

http://www.courant.com/news/local/fv/hc-simwood0327.artmar27,0,1157995.story Groups Meet Fundraising Goal Donations Pour In To Provide $2.7 Million Toward Purchase Of Ethel Walker Woods By LORETTA WALDMAN Courant Staff Writer March 27 2007 SIMSBURY --A frenzied final month of fundraising that included a mass mailing and a flurry of donations from residents of neighboring towns has helped two groups raise $2.7 million in private funding needed to purchase the Ethel Walker Woods. Melissa Spear is a project manager for one of the groups, the Trust for Public Land. Spear, who announced the official end to the campaign earlier in the day, told selectmen Monday night…

http://www.courant.com/news/local/fv/hc-5brf0306_2.artmar06,0,6025912.story eBay Benefit Auction March 6 2007 AREAWIDE ---- Keep The Woods, a Simsbury-based grass-roots group, is sponsoring an eBay auction in support of its effort to preserve Ethel Walker Woods, 424-acres of open space featuring trails and wildlife atop a drinking water aquifer. The group will pick up, photograph, list the item on eBay and ship it to the new owner. All handling costs will be covered by Keep The Woods and all proceeds from the auction will go toward the purchase of the land by the town. To donate an item or contact the group for more…