Matching donation helps raise $424,000 to preserve land at World Fellowship
ALBANY — Upper Saco Valley Land Trust and the World Fellowship Center are raising money to put 400 acres of World Fellowship land (with frontage on Whitton Pond, Chocorua River and Lovejoy Marsh) into a conservation easement.
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