Tonight at 6:30 p.m., there will be a hearing at Lyme Town Hall conducted by the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) on the application by the owner of 484 Joshuatown Rd. to install a dock in Whalebone Cove for the use of motorized watercraft.

Tonight’s DEEP hearing is being held because 39 residents of the Whalebone Cove area signed a petition requiring that DEEP hold a public hearing on the dock application. Many of those who signed the petition are now forming themselves into a neighborhood organization to be called Friends of Whalebone Cove.