Scheduling is proving tricky so far. If you are interested, please join the mailing list or watch this web page. Or, email me with a phone number. If we cancel due to weather there will simply not be anybody at town building.
Currently, it is nymph deer tick season, the highest period of Lyme disease risk, and then poison ivy season.
We have visited all but six bounds. We will have two (possibly only one) outings from late October to December, 2011 to visit bounds that are in wet locations and that require more extensive coordination with landowners.
Perambulation has already been announced three times in the Stow Independent and on the town announce mailing list, with a request for those interested to join the mailinglist or leave a phone number with the Selectman's office. Because it seems likely that all who are interested are already aware of this activity, future coordination is likely to be only via the mailinglist and by phone to those who have contacted the Selectman's office.
The team visited 8 bounds on April 24, 2010 and 7 bounds on May 1, 2010. The team visited 9 bounds (and two locations that should have bounds that do not) on April 9, 2011. The team visited bounds on April 30, 2011.
See the very thorough 2002--2006 Perambulation Report by Ross Perry.
See a map of Stow, showing MassGIS town boundary data ("townssurvey" data set) overlaid on OpenStreetMap data. Red circles are MassGIS town corners derived from state law, and green circles are GPS observations taken during the 2005 perambulation. The Stow boundary is shown as dashed line, based on data imported from MassGIS ("townssurvey_arc" data set). I am not sure of the origin of the data showing the line showing the Middlesex/Worcester County border (dashed-dotted line); this line is several meters to the west.
(mostly) boundary data points from 2005