CAMPTON — The White Mountain National Forest collects close to $1 million in rent from eight ski operations and that money all goes to Washington.
But a bill, reintroduced last week, might be even better news for the industry than the major snowstorm that arrived at the outset of Massachusetts school vacation week.
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