The Day — ‘Free and unimpeded’: Appeals court upholds beachgoers’ rights in Old Lyme

By Elizabeth Regan — Old Lyme, CT — The “unorganized public” is victorious again in a fight for beach access going back to 1952. Seventy years ago and again in 2018, residents of the Sound View Beach area took Miami Beach Association to court to force the removal of a fence standing between members of the public and an 800-foot-long stretch of sand left to them in perpetuity by a developer.