Tree cutting stands between Nashua airport and unhappy Pine Hill Road family

On the morning of Jan. 26, a tree removal worker knocked on the door of Jim and Kristin Sweeney’s home at 66 Pine Hill Road. The worker explained that his company, hired by the Nashua Airport Authority, would have to come briefly onto the Sweeneys’ land while it cut trees on their neighbor’s land near the west side of the border between the two properties. The contractor then proceeded to cut down their neighbor’s tall pine trees as well as shorter trees, some as high as 15 feet, on the Sweeneys’ land, the couple say. Thus began a dispute, now in its ninth month, between the family and the airport authority, which denies that any of the trees cut were on the Sweeneys’ land. Though Kristin Sweeney says she has a lawyer working on her case, primarily to try to get information, she has thrown up her arms in hopes of any resolution. In a last-ditch effort, she wrote a letter to The Telegraph to air her concerns. Maybe the old saw that “you can’t fight city hall” should be amended to note that you can’t fight a municipal airport either, Sweeney suggested. “From the beginning, all we wanted was for our trees to be replaced.