Good news for cell phone users - Unicel's request to put a cell tower in the Sousa farm silo on Cabot Plain has been approved by the Cabot zoning board. No word on when it may be installed and become active, but because Unicel seemed anxious to be able to fill that large gap in service between Walden, Marshfield and Danville, I expect it will happen very soon. That will leave some neighbors to the farm feeling threatened because of the possible emissions from such towers, and the arguments were that because of those emissions property values would go down and the silo would be rendered useless for future farm purposes. According to a report in Wednesday's Hardwick Gazette, Unicel made some concessions and the board felt they could issue a permit for the tower. I don't know what the concessions were.

Fred was at camp yesterday cleaning the chimney. Turns out it really needed it. I took these pictures of him on the roof. With the weather brewing up t-storms on a regular basis, he decided yesterday was as good a it would probably get to do it without danger of getting caught up there in a lightning flash. Didn't take long, and it's a good job done.

This poster came in my e-mail this morning. Click on it to make it larger.