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Bedford’s new conservation agent began his municipal government career in law enforcement.
Jeffrey Summers has been serving in Bedford for a little more than a month. He succeeds Rachel Kelley, who was on the job for less than four months before accepting an offer in January to be director of planning and development in Winthrop.
Summers, who grew up in New Jersey, previously worked as a police officer in Henniker, NH, home of New England College and Pat’s Peak Ski Area.
After 10 years on the force, Summers said, “I wanted to learn more about the environment and environmental issues.” He enrolled at Northeastern University and earned a degree in environmental studies.
Summers was appointed by Town Manager Sarah Stanton after more than five years as conservation agent in Cohasset, on the South Shore.
He acknowledged the dramatic difference in topography. In Cohasset, much of Summers’s attention focused on things like coastal banks, salt marshes, and proposed beach restorations.
Arriving in Bedford, “I drove around town, and everywhere I looked there was a stream or a brook or an obvious wetland. It’s amazing how much wetland there is in the town; it literally looks like a sponge.”
Do you want to have a say in how Bedford oversees the protection of wetlands, waterbodies, waterways, floodplains, and riverfront areas, and the acquisition and maintenance of open space land? Did you know that Bedford’s Conservation Commission (ConCom) currently has ONE opening for members? In this and future spotlights, the Volunteer Coordinating Committee will let Bedford residents know a little more about some town committees that could use your help.
The sun is going to act weird early TOMORROW MORNING June 10. For the entire Northeast, the sun will rise not as a round ball but as an eerie, misshapen, dazzling crescent partly blocked by the moon. For Bedford, the sun will rise at 5:08 a.m. and will remain partially eclipsed for more than an hour after that.
At its monthly meeting at 7 pm on Thursday, June 17, the Hanscom Area Towns Committee (HATS) will introduce Colonel Katrina C. Stephens who became Commander of the 66th Air Base Wing at Hanscom Air Force in June.
Katherine Whitley Hudson passed away on May 27, 2021. Before moving to Bedford, Ms. Hudson was a school teacher at Camp Lejune, the US Marine Corps base in Jackosonville, North Carolina.
June 27th is the day! The day the Job Lane Farm Museum opens for the summer.
The tour guides are very excited. They’re shaking out their colonial clothing, and getting acquainted with the changes that have taken place in the house since it closed more than a year ago. (Here is a new antique hand-woven coverlet… Here is a pair of Windsor chairs owned by Col. Francis Lane two centuries ago… Here is the newly updated story of Job Lane’s ancient Bible…)
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