AUDIO of meeting: REAL MEDIA (streaming): | MP3:
MINUTES of meeting: 2010 Meeting Minutes
CBN Connect/Howard Lowe's Powerpoint Presentation (7-24-2010 meeting): CBN Connect Presentation
MEETING GRAPHICS (7-24-2010 meeting): MEETING POWERPOINT
TREASURERS REPORT: 2010 Treasurer's Report

2) To all those who participated in the Lincoln Pond Road clean-up this year, THANKS!!!

3) Lincoln Pond / Essex County Route 7 Broadband Access Initiative. If you are unhappy with your SLOW phone and/or satellite Internet connection, you'll be interested in our Broadband Access Initiative. Households interested in obtaining broadband Internet service, voice-over IP phone access, and/or wired TV via cable and/or fiber optic links should express their wishes by notifying us ASAP. We have initiated contacts with Charter Cable, Verizon, CBN Connect (in Plattsburgh), and Time Warner -- as well as local and regional politicians -- and are working aggressively to obtain REAL high speed Internet coverage for our area. Other communities (like Keene Valley) are now getting government grants, raising private funds, and have negotiated broadband Internet service agreements. It's time for our region to get connected! Not only will it enhance our educational and entertainment opportunities (such as distance learning and degree programs on line, film and audio downloads, a greater variety of television channels, access to on-line books and newspapers), it will also foster home businesses and provide a variety of commercial opportunities to residents. Sign onto our initiative by sending us a note expressing your desire to get service. We need names, addresses, phone numbers, and current email information for all those who are interested -- to show service providers and regional politicians that there is real, un-met demand in our area. Send a note expressing your desire to get connected to: lincolnpond@hughes.net. We'll add you to our petition and to our mailing list and notify you regularly of our progress.

4) Kingdom Dam reconstruction project informational meeting [AUDIO]. Recording of the Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 meeting held at the Elizabethtown Town Hall concerning the reconstruction of Kingdom Dam. Speakers included Jim Reagan, Noel Merrihew III, Tom Martin, Leo Demong, Doug Spilling and audience members: RealMedia (streaming) | MP3.

5) Recording of Thomas Martin's (District 5 DEC Forester) presentation on planned reconstruction of Kingdom Dam. This is a selection of remarks made at the Lincoln Pond Association meeting, July 12, 2008. For a complete account of the meeting, see 2008 meeting minutes: Real Media | MP3.

6) Latest Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP) report on Lincoln Pond is now available here (PDF file): CSLAP 2008 Report.

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Sunset at Lincoln Pond
(Helen Phinney, Aug. 11, 1971)

A kingfisher skims the water -
the water reflecting the
hills and sky
Pools of pink and purple.

Now the colors fade.
The hills take on a deep blue.
The water becomes shimmering
glass - shimmering - moving -
Blue clouds, now, and
darker water - a bird calls
in the trees behind me.

Now all is muted and quiet,
Colors, water - all.