2004-12-06
COMMUNICATION BLUES
Cell Phone Tree in Lake George? | Telecommunications giant Nextel wants to place a 104 foot [31.7 metres] cell phone "tree" on the Eastern shore of Lake George | 
According to a 5 dec '04 New York Times article, Nextel personnel say the tower would be virtually invisible | They don't understand what the fuss is all about | But efforts have been made, unsuccessful except by court order, to place cell towers in the nearby town of Ft Ann, NY | Town residents remained opposed and quite vocal about it |
Some think, for safety reasons, the tower should be built | Others point to the fact that construtcing the tower, even as a fake tree, would be as "...noticable as putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa" | I don't know | I don't live there | And the Courts and the citizenry will have to play this out |
I do know, however, that when I went camping in the Adirondacks last summer, in Lake George, as it happens, my reveries were unexpectedly disturbed when, at 2130 hours [9:30 p.m.] I got a call from someone in East Haddam who wanted to talk about a project coming before a public hearing and hoped I had the time to speak with him about it, right then | We talked, with clear reception, for over 20 minutes | I also know what these things can look like, and they don't look like pine trees | For the Full Story
PIX: Stewart Caines, NY Times © 2004
Cell Phone Tree in Lake George? | Telecommunications giant Nextel wants to place a 104 foot [31.7 metres] cell phone "tree" on the Eastern shore of Lake George | According to a 5 dec '04 New York Times article, Nextel personnel say the tower would be virtually invisible | They don't understand what the fuss is all about | But efforts have been made, unsuccessful except by court order, to place cell towers in the nearby town of Ft Ann, NY | Town residents remained opposed and quite vocal about it |
Some think, for safety reasons, the tower should be built | Others point to the fact that construtcing the tower, even as a fake tree, would be as "...noticable as putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa" | I don't know | I don't live there | And the Courts and the citizenry will have to play this out |
I do know, however, that when I went camping in the Adirondacks last summer, in Lake George, as it happens, my reveries were unexpectedly disturbed when, at 2130 hours [9:30 p.m.] I got a call from someone in East Haddam who wanted to talk about a project coming before a public hearing and hoped I had the time to speak with him about it, right then | We talked, with clear reception, for over 20 minutes | I also know what these things can look like, and they don't look like pine trees | For the Full Story
THANKS TO: MojoVilma for sending me this | OTHER PIX CREDITS: 1- Duncan MacDougal | 2- Reno Gazette Journal | 3- Robert Baron |
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