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Newbold To Hold Hearing In April On ATV Roads

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One of Oneida county's larger and more populous towns is having a public hearing this spring to gauge public opinion on opening up a portion of it's roads to ATV's.

The Town of Newbold has been asked to open nine roads for use. Town Chair Dave Kroll says amendments to the town's ordinance have been proposed...

"...those roads are Autumn Lane, Fallen Wood Lane, Flannery Lake Road, Hook Lake Road, Pine Grove Drive, Surf Drive, Valley Court, Velvet Lake Road, and Vets Memorial Drive. Basically we've been petitioned to look at two different blocks, in the Pine Grove Drive area and Valley Court area...."

He says the largest area is the Pine Grove block, from Highway "K" north and the roads that connect to that road. Kroll says the request would open up those roads to the next door Town of Crescent which has opened all their roads to ATV's. Kroll says the issue has popped up several times in the past 15 years.

He says they did some survey work with Newbold residents... 

"they found that there is a majority, it's a slim majority of citizens in the town tend to support this, so we thought it was worth pursuing. The town board did not feel the majority was strong enough to just opening all the roads in Newbold, so we decided we would just take it in smaller increments, section by section...."

The public hearing is Saturday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m. at the Newbold town hall, about 7 miles north of Rhinelander on Highway 47.

Kroll says while the meeting is open to non-Newbold residents, he says the issue is for Newbold residents to be heard.

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