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This Tree Climber Teaches Us How to Build a Rope Swing

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Lehigh Valley Live

A beloved rope swing tree was just chopped down and the Easton-area community is heartbroken

When summer vacation started, this was the place generations of Easton Area kids went to cool off. The longstanding tradition of swinging into the Bushkill Creek from a rope tied to a huge tree ended ...
WWLP-22News

Local group looks to fund removal of rope swings, trees along North Pond in Southwick

SOUTHWICK, Mass. (WWLP) – Rope swings on trees along the North Pond at the Congamond Lakes in Southwick are posing a safety risk for visitors. Michelle Pratt from Citizens Restoring Congamond (CRC) ...
MassLive

Congamond Lake group reconsiders $4K gift to Southwick to cut rope swing trees

SOUTHWICK — After “pretty significant” negative reaction from Citizens Restoring Congamond members that they would be funding tree removal, the lake advocacy group is withholding a planned $4,000 ...
MassLive

Congamond Lake group gifts Southwick $4K to remove trees with unsafe rope swings

SOUTHWICK — They just keep growing back. That’s what Select Board Chair Doug Moglin said last month when discussing the ropes attached to two trees that hang over the Congamond Lake’s North Pond, used ...